Word: prothro
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Dates: during 1956-1956
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Tutored by bulky (260 Ibs.) Tommy Prothro, once chief recruiter for U.C.L.A.'s Coach Red Sanders. Oregon State boasted nine California-bred bruisers on its first team. It was no surprise that they played Sanders' type of football: a power-packed single-wing offense that kept right on rolling after Stanford's sharpshooting passer, John Brodie, put the Indians out in front 19-7. Late in the third quarter, Oregon State completed a lovely 59-yd. pitch-and-run pass play of their own leading to a touchdown and, midway in the last quarter, went...