Word: passers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...next Cabinet! If you'd come from Harvard, you'd be in tomorrow!" With a bow to the honor guest at the head table, the "quarterback of the Hyannisport All-Stars," Hope quipped: "Listen, touch football is not a sissy sport. Up there in Hyannisport, roughing the passer is a federal rap." Finally he had some news of a fellow Californian: "Nixon couldn't be here-he's running for Governor. He'll campaign on radio...
...often in a college center. A college center has to be really exceptional to make the grade in the pro game, because he has to do so much that he isn't called upon to do in school: throw key blocks, drop back to protect the passer. Goode has what it takes...
Quarterback: Roman Gabriel, 21, North Carolina State; 6 ft. 4 in., 225 Ibs. A superb passer-and the unanimous choice of the pro scouts-Gabriel is certain to be picked in the first round of the pro draft. Says one scouting report: "He throws excellent short passes, hard and fast, and he's physically rugged. This means that he is strong enough to wait until the last moment to deliver, allowing his receivers to get into ideal position-and he can absorb the beating he'll have to take for waiting so long." The pros also praise...
...rely on an unofficial substitute. The Dunsters were completely out-classed by the Yale team which passed, ran, and later rallied like the Harlem Globetrotters. The Bulls added injury to insult by scoring their final two points on the last play of the game, dropping a Dunster passer behind the goal as he looked vainly for receivers...
When he entered Memphis State, Wright looked like a better candidate for water boy than for All-America. Puny (148 Ibs.) and injury-prone, he was an erratic passer. But Wright put on 43 Ibs. by stuffing himself with food and lifting weights, practiced passing until he could hit a fast-moving receiver on the helmet at 50 yds. The effort paid off' as a junior last year. Quarterback Wright was drafted by two pro teams-the National Football League's Champion Philadelphia Eagles and the Boston Patriots of the American League. "We originally figured Wright for defense...