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Sophomore quarterback Tom Doyle, who gained 160 yards himself against Dartmouth last week, conducts the Eli onslaught. He either feeds the pigskin to burly fullback Tyrell Hennings, who averages 4.4 yards per carry up the middle, or tosses it to speedsters Dick Jauron and Rudy Green, who are dangerous outside ramblers...
...Willie Namath, should suffer such a fate. But he has always been the same kind of rococo rascal that Jones was. As a child Joe Willie was, by his own cheerful confession, an occasional thief and vandal. In his youth he ignored his studies for the pursuit of pigskin and other cutaneous diversions. In setting a career for himself as a professional quarterback, Joe snubbed the St. Louis Cardinals of the older National Football League in favor of the New York Jets of the lowly American Football League-for a record bonus...
Last month, after only two-and-a-half weeks of kicking a pigskin, Gomez signed a contract with the New England Patriots. "I went to their scout and asked him for a tryout. I kicked field goals for about 40 minutes, and he was very impressed," Gomez said...
...final play of the game saw Lowell's Jack Dalton streak into the clear to run under a long bomb, with the potential shutout-avoiding score. Looking back over his shoulder to spot the incoming pigskin, Dalton crumpled to the turf after smashing full steam into the goalpost. He dropped the pass. "I was so heated up over the game," he says, "that I didn't even feel a thing. At least not until I was lying on the trainer's table to get the X-rays...
...Boston, the Sack moviehouse chain is also attempting to cash in on feminine revolt against the male chauvinist pigskin fan with a special cut-rate Monday-night admission price ($1.99 v. $3). No box-office figures are in yet on that ploy, and the long-term impact of prime-time football on show business-and on American home life-is also still undetermined. ABC's only beef so far is that the audience figures, encouraging as they are, do not include an estimated 250,000 additional males catching the Monday games at the corner...