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...troops through an emotionally trying barrage of accusations: Oakland spent much of the fall under a cloud of charges of dirty play. It began in the season's opening game, when Safetyman George Atkinson decked Pittsburgh Receiver Lynn Swann, leaving Swann with a concussion. Steeler Coach Chuck Noll charged Atkinson with foul play, speaking darkly of a "criminal element in the N.F.L." Hoping to cool things off, Commissioner Pete Rozelle fined Atkinson $1,500 and Noll $1,000. For his part, Atkinson slapped Rozelle and Noll with lawsuits charging defamation of character...
...running out at the Super Bowl as the Pittsburgh Steelers are plodding down the field. They have controlled the ball for eleven straight minutes and have slogged to the Dallas Cowboy 18-yd. line. Franco Harris rams off tackle yet again for two more yards, and Coach Chuck Noll sends in Kicker Roy Gerela. His field goal gives the Steelers victory-3-2. There is total silence in the Orange Bowl. Everyone is sound asleep...
...beginning of the front four's contribution to the Steelers. They set the tone for the entire defense and it was the defense that carried the 42-year-old Pittsburgh franchise to its first Super Bowl championship last year. The creation of patient, low-key Head Coach Chuck Noll, who drafted all but two of the starting defensive players, and Steelers Founder and Owner Art Rooney, who gave Noll the backing he needed to build slowly over the past six years, the defense is the cornerstone of Pittsburgh's leadership in the N.F.L. When Pittsburgh defeated Minnesota...
...defeating Buffalo and Oakland to qualify for the Super Bowl, the Steelers really got their offense humming. Running Back Franco Harris remembered how to rumble through tacklers like a tank. Quarterback Terry Bradshaw recalled that he is, after all, No. 1 in Pittsburgh. During recent games, says Coach Chuck Noll, "Bradshaw has been masterful...
...Steelers' overpowering defense merits the same praise. Beginning six years ago with the drafting of Defensive Tackle "Mean" Joe Greene, Noll gradually put together the best defense in football. The Steelers' front four, the most ferocious in the league, flattened quarterbacks 52 times this season with their savage pass rush. The team's linebackers, led by bruising Jack Ham, are almost as intimidating. Against the powerful Raiders in the A.F.C. championship game, Pittsburgh yielded only 29 yds. in 21 running plays...