Word: pitt
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...clear prize among five or six significant quarterback prospects was Stanford's John Elway, who broke in harshly last season at Denver but enjoyed a mortal's measure of success this year. Elway aside, Shula sensed he was legitimately alone in his admiration for the famed junior star at Pitt who had fallen on more than mean times as a senior. "Dan was the MVP of each all-star game I saw. We kept saying to ourselves, 'What's wrong with this...
...rumor was the usual one, drugs, and it was so prevalent that in the presence of Pitt Coach "Foge" Fazio, Marino was tested and passed. Still unconvinced that three losses in twelve games constitutes disgrace, Marino looks back at his 42-6 college career with no expression of regret. "Go to high school and college in my own district. Be the starting quarterback. Have a chance at a national championship. I thought it would be a lot of fun to do that--and it was. You're not always going to be successful, but everything's worked out great." Quarterbacks...
...Washington (10-1), along with the presiding NBC network, count themselves on the side of the majority. The Cougars' weakness is the WAC, unfortunate shorthand for the Western Athletic Conference, which B.Y.U. has dominated for nine years. At the same time, it ought to be noted, Pitt was ranked third back when the season commenced for the Cougars in Pittsburgh, 20-14, and the WAC team no better than third in the conference, Air Force, has trimmed Notre Dame three years straight...
...about him. He stands 6 ft. 3 in. but is made even taller by an eruption of sprung curls that overflow his football helmet in nervous homage to a bald father. Dan Marino Sr. drives a newspaper truck in Pittsburgh, and a charming tableau of their autumns at Pitt shows a man getting up at 3 every morning to deliver personally news of his boy in the Post-Gazette. The Marino home is not far from downtown, the beery old neighborhood of the steely old prizefighter Billy Conn, so Dan comes from the same state and state of mind...
Places in the polling hierarchy traditionally occupied by the overpowering-Alabama, Notre Dame, Pitt or U.S.C.-have been taken over by the middling-South Carolina, Kentucky or Washington. In its first five games, Alabama was able to beat only quaint Southwestern Louisiana, but then upset Penn State before losing to Tennessee. As bad starts go, this one went back to 1957, the year before the coming of Bear Bryant. About a month before Coach Bryant died in 1983, former Receiver Ray Perkins was selected to follow him. "From disbelief to sadness to disappointment to madness," as Perkins has described...