Word: namath
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...took the mound for the baseball team. He broke his brother's school high-jump record on his first try. And the fellow who really raised Terry's competitive hackles was a football quarterback from just down the pike in Beaver Falls, Pa., named Joe Willie Namath...
Hanratty had nothing personal against Namath-who was already off at Alabama building a reputation for flinging and swinging that would later win him a $400,000 contract with the pro New York Jets. What bugged Terry was that people were forever comparing him with Joe. Since Terry had deliberately patterned himself after Baltimore's Johnny Unitas, the classiest-and probably the quietest-of pro quarterbacks, he wasn't sure that the other comparison was much of a compliment. So the biggest thrill of his high school career was beating Beaver Falls 41-21-scoring a touchdown...
...practically everybody except Mollenkopf (who is obviously used to this sort of thing), Notre Dame produced the passer it had been lacking all last year: Terry Hanratty, 18, a sophomore quarterback from Butler, Pa.-which happens to be near the home of the New York Jets' Joe Namath, who happens to have been Hanratty's boyhood hero. Ahead of every good passer, of course, there is a good receiver, and the Irish have one of those too: End Jim Seymour, 19, another sophomore, who stands 6 ft. 4 in., weighs 205 Ibs., runs like a deer and cuts...
...hand in the slaughter. Outweighed by 70 Ibs., Guard Sam DeLuca neutralized Houston's 315-lb. Defensive Tackle Ernie Ladd so effectively that Ladd spent the entire fourth quarter on the bench. Cornerback Johnny Sample picked off two Oiler passes; Middle Linebacker Al Atkinson contributed nine tackles. And Namath, untouched by Houston hands behind a ring of "fantastic" blockers, picked the Oilers' secondary to shreds...
Targets All Around. Joe's first TD pass went to Split End George Sauer. "I dropped back and looked at four receivers," Namath said later, "and they were all covered. Then I looked at George." George was waiting patiently, all by his lonesome, on the Houston 17; Joe hit him with a pass that traveled a good 60 yds. in the air. New York's second touchdown came on a rollout: whirling suddenly, Namath flipped the ball back across the field to Fullback Matt Snell, who ambled 25 yds. Tight End Pete Lammons was Joe's target...