Word: passer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They were line-backer Joe Fortunate of Yale, his fellow Eli Ed Woodsum as offensive end, Columbia's Mitch Price as a passer, and Princeton's Frank McPhee as pass receiver. Harry Agganis of Boston University was the only local to receive mention...
Mike Kulukondis, manager and star passer, was the main cog in the Mower attack. Others outstanding on the championship squad were Guy Barrow, Richard-Corbell, Bruce William,s Don Pfarrer, Bob Byrd, Bob Ogden, and Barry Linde...
Molloy has been breaking all kinds of Yale records--he has 84 completions in 164 tries for a total of 1099 yards, and eleven of the completions have gone for touchdowns. The statistics are accurate; Molloy is a fine passer who throws the ball where he wants to; against Princeton he completed 11 of 18 passes despite a soaking wet ball...
Before college football adopted some professional standards, a forward passer had to be five yards back of the line of scrimmage. Before that, two incomplete passes in a row drew a 5-yd. penalty. Nowadays, a sleight-of-hand T-quarterback may pitch right from the line of scrimmage; he may also flip four failures in a row without penalty-though his coach might have something to say about that. The new rules deliberately encourage a more open style of play, and good passers have popped up all over the football map this year. Key men in the T-formation...
...other side of the continent, Washington's Don Heinrich, the Pacific Coast Conference's leading passer, who in 1950 held the intercollegiate mark of 60.7% completions in one season, sparked his team to a 22-7 upset of California. Husky (6 ft. 1 in., 178 Ibs.) Heinrich carried the ball himself for one score, and earned two more points on a freak play: a California man nabbed a Heinrich pass and fell over his own goal line for a safety...