Word: quarterback
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with the whiplash passing arm. By the end of this year, there was hardly a football coach in the South who had not cast covetous eyes on Perry Lee ("The Gun") Dunn, 18-year-old son of a Natchez factory worker. For Perry Lee is a quarterback with the roughhewn build of a tackle (6 ft. 1½ in., 207 Ibs.). As a senior he has averaged a startling 260.9 yds. a game, running for 20 touchdowns and passing for 14 more...
...flown down to Baton Rouge for a two-day stay, produced All-America Billy Cannon to chat with his prospect. Thursday, back in Natchez, Perry Lee had a steak with Coach Wade Walker of Mississippi State, then excused himself to down another with L.S.U.'s Quarterback Warren Rabb and two other players specially flown in by Dr. Phillips...
...wanted to go to Mississippi all along," said Quarterback Perry Lee Dunn. "But I wanted to be sure. I'm glad it's over-I thought the pressure the last two weeks would drive me crazy. I haven't studied a lick the whole time." By week's end, Perry Lee was already talking like a Mississippi man, sniffed scornfully at top-ranked Syracuse: "Ole Miss could take them-they're just a bunch of fat boys...
Last week was the showdown; the Colts tackled the Forty-Niners in their own stadium, with the conference title at stake. Cool and confident, Quarterback Unitas whipsawed the Forty-Niner defense by sending fleet Halfback Lennie Moore to the outside, barreling Fullback Alan ("The Horse") Ameche up the middle. But as always the big man was Unitas himself. Passing in the calm lee of Tackle Jim Parker (6 ft. 3 in., 275 lbs.), Unitas threw for three touchdowns to bring his season's total to 29, break the N.F.L. record held since 1943 by the Bears' Sid Luckman...
...even a second-half appearance by balding Forty-Niner Quarterback Y. A. Tittle, still gimpy from an earlier Colt game, could save the day against a gang-tackling Colt defense led by massive (6 ft. 4 in., 240 Ibs.) Gino Marchetti. Final score: Colts 34, Forty-Niners 14. The victory at the least assured the Colts a first-place tie, setting up the prospect of another classic clash for the pro championship between Baltimore and the New York Giants, who won the Eastern Conference title by routing the Cleveland Browns...