Word: quarterback
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Baltimore's Colts trailed the New York Giants 17-14. Johnny Unitas, Baltimore quarterback, glanced quickly at the clock. In the next 2 min. 30 sec. he had to move the Colts from their own 20-yd. line into field-goal range, tie the score and force the first sudden-death playoff in a National Football League championship game...
...football. The Giants' defensive team had already blocked a Colt field-goal try, smeared Unitas himself at crucial moments, made a devastating goal-line stand inside its own 5-yd. line and had roared back from a 14-3 half-time deficit on the wings of aging (37) Quarterback Charley Conerly's passes for two touchdowns...
...Handsome Quarterback Unitas went to work. Throwing hook passes to the side lines that got just enough for vital first downs, he drove the Colts to the Giants' 13. There, with a precious 9 sec. left, Steve Myrha booted the tying field goal...
...Wisconsin (7-1-1)-with a rugged defensive line and a sophomore quarterback named Dale Hackbart who can do everything, it managed a strong second-place finish...
...Quarterback: Joe Kapp, 20, California; 6 ft. 2 in., 205 lbs. Senior. Major: physical education. Football's best running quarterback; a slick ball handler, he put California in the Rose Bowl almost singlehanded; called his plays with rare perception, executed them with extraordinary finesse and poise...