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...Army's greatest enemy was the clock. There were still six minutes left -plenty of time for a team to travel 49 yds. with time-outs and sideline passes to stop the clock. But Army had no time-outs left, and Stichweh was no passer. Steadily, Army marched down the field; relentlessly, the seconds and minutes ticked off. "Touchdown! Touchdown!" Army rooters screamed. "Stop them! Stop them!" pleaded the Navy stands. With a third down on the Navy four and less than one minute on the clock, the Army team could not hear Stichweh's signals. The referee...
There was a bit of the fluke about the Steelers' win last time. Y.A. Tittle, the Giants' masterful passer, was on the bench with injuries. His replacement, Ralph Guglielmi, showed such brilliance in the Steelers game that the Giants displayed their gratitude by promptly trading him to San Francisco...
Dartmouth's chances depend on two factors: the ability of its defense to hold Princeton on the power sweeps, and the amount of ineptitude in the Tiger pass defense. The Green had trouble holding Harvard on end runs, but Dana Kelly has quietly taken over as the best passer in the League...
...last, the defeated wheel man jumped from the car and took to his heels. A few blocks off, the other crooks had abandoned the panel truck and presumably had gone elsewhere to rendezvous with the station wagon. But the imprisoned guards, meanwhile, were raising a clamor, and a passer-by called the police...
Burke is trying to change the Ivy procedure of keeping running statistics, in which the yards lost by a runner are subtracted from his gains. A passing quarterback, therefore, particularly a drop back passer like Roberts, often ends up with a low net rushing average because of traps behind the line. And Roberts, who has received poor protection during his career, has been smeared more often than most Ivy passers...