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There he stood, looking like King Hal at Agincourt, a slim figure in gold staring at the enemy over the backs of his crouching linemen. "Haaaay, set! Hup-ah-hup-ah-hup-ah . . ." Back snapped the ball, and the crowd sucked in its breath. What would he do? Now he was rolling right and fading back as if to pass. He slithered away from one tackier, straight-armed another. Downfield, three receivers zigged, zagged, looked back, zigged again. Back and forth he dodged, now trapped, now loose. But there was no pass. In a spurt of swivel-hipped speed...
...right, and the fun begins. "At this point," says a Navy coach, "nobody knows what he's going to do except Staubach and God." He may pass, he may run, or he may just drop back 25 or 30 yds., before he makes up his mind. Navy linemen no longer block just one man; they hit, get up and hit somebody else, "because Roger may be coming back again." His receivers run their normal patterns, then keep dashing around waiting for the ball to come winging into their arms. As Staubach says: "Sometimes it gets to be a little...
...Linemen get bigger and defenses get cannier, but nothing stops the Cleveland Browns' fullback Jimmy Brown, 27. In this year's opener against Washington, he scored three touchdowns on dazzling bursts of 10, 80 and 83 yds. He gained 162 yds. on the ground (v. 71 yds. for the whole Washington team), caught three passes for another 100 yds. Cleveland won the game...
...cost-slashing efficiencies. Florida's Railroad and Public Utilities Commission recently blamed General for cutting back service, and threatened fines unless it improved. Negotiating a new contract for 3,500 hourly workers this spring, management and labor found themselves far apart. Last month more than 3,000 operators, linemen and installer-repairmen walked...
Apparently, however, Harvard is beginning to be a little more serious than it has been before. The team has been able to field at least 30 players for practice since they began a month ago. Bolstered by a flock of football linemen, including first-string tackle Ed Smith and second-stringers Jeff Pochop and Gene Skowronski, the scrum is perhaps one of the strongest in the East...