Word: passers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Coley O'Brien for the quarterback's job, and he still had a lot to learn. Endlessly, Terry practiced "quick release": dropping back, spotting Seymour, and firing, all in the space of 3½ sec., the average time it takes a strong defensive lineman to penetrate a passer's protective pocket. When he got his time down to 3½ sec., he began trying for 3 sec. Then Terry practiced varying the speed of his spiral: "When a man is wide open," he explained, "there is no sense barreling it in there. But when the defensive...
...Griese, 21, and James Beirne, 20, are both throwbacks of a sort. Griese is a true triple threat who can run and kick as well as pass. Unfettered by fundamentals, Griese often throws off-balance or off the wrong foot; yet he boasts perhaps the quickest release of any passer in college football and was a consensus All-America last year. Receiver Beirne is not particularly fast, but he has the deceptive moves to break loose from defenders...
Defensive line coach Jim Lentz is cautiously pleased with the defense's progress--ends and all--and does not plan any new formations to stop Lion quarterback Rick Ballentine, a dangerous passer and runner who enjoys rolling out to the right on the option play...
Last week against Princeton he tossed touchdown passes of 72 and 80 yards to fleet halfback Jim O'Connor. Ballentine's replacement, sophomore Martin Domres, is a fair passer also...
...sure was. To the astonishment of 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...