Word: passers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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GUARDS: Jack Cvercko, 21, Northwestern; 6 ft. 1 in., 235 lbs. Ed Budde, 22, Michigan State; 6 ft. 4 in., 247 lbs. Both Cvercko and Budde are fast and maneuverable, equally adept at dropping back to protect a passer or pulling out to run interference for end sweeps. Unlike most college guards, they also have the size to make the pros. "We don't pay much attention to college guards," admits one scout. "Usually, we take tackles and make guards out of them...
Archie not only is about the best passer over to throw a football, he is also an ideal young man. He rises early each morning to deliver papers, chats with students and helps them with homework, modestly removes signs saying "We Love You, Archie," drinks milk, studies hard, is friendly, brave, courteous, helpful, obedient, cheerful, reverent, and lots more...
...pretty fair quarterback. He did lead the team to the Ivy Co-Championship last year as a sophomore, and this season he seems to be directing the Crimson to another late surge. Bassett, however, does things like hand-off to other players, and he is not a great passer. This automatically removes him from the glamor-boy race...
...runner, and when the 49ers shifted to a ground game last year, he was traded to the Giants. "Hindsight," says San Francisco Coach Red Hickey mournfully, "is always clearer than foresight." Against the Pittsburgh Steelers in the season's second game. Tittle got the kind of protection a passer needs, completed ten of twelve passes for a 17-14 victory that started the Giants on the road to the Eastern Conference championship...
...sidearm passer in the mold of Slingin' Sammy Baugh, Tittle throws one of the longest (up to 60 yds.) passes in football. Pressed by enemy linemen, he will sometimes roll out of his protective pocket and throw on the dead run. But he usually gets all the time he needs to fade leisurely back and pick apart the defense. In the huddle, Tittle solicits reports on enemy weaknesses, looking for a charging linebacker who leaves the way open for a short screen pass, a safetyman who plays too shallow and can be caught flatfooted by a suddenly sprung long...