Word: quarterback
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...violent minutes, the Dallas Cowboys seemed on their way to gaining a measure of revenge on the Green Bay Packers who had whipped them two years in a row for the National Foot ball League championship. In the first half, Quarterback Don Meredith rifled a touchdown pass to Bob Hayes; after that, he engineered a field goal for a 10-7 lead. Then it happened. Early in the third quarter, the Packers' Willie Davis crashed through the Cowboy line, grabbed Meredith's face mask and wrenched him to the ground, breaking his nose. The infraction cost Green...
Once more pro football had demonstrated that even the best team is rarely better than its quarterback. With Meredith healthy, the Cowboys had galloped to six straight victories and an undisputed lead in the N.F.L. Until the Dallas game, the world champion Packers had managed only a 2-3-1 record-largely because of a freak injury to their own field general. While lobbing passes in a warmup drill before the Los Angeles Rams game three weeks ago, Starr unaccountably pulled the biceps muscle in his throwing arm, watched from the sidelines as the Rams toppled his teammates...
...Yorker cartoon, a horrified patient looks up from the operating table and asks the masked doctor, "How do I know you're not George Plimpton?" How, indeed? The author of Paper Lion and Out of My League has played as a bumbling quarterback for the Detroit Lions and performed as an inexpert pitcher in Yankee Stadium...
...most important man in the single wing is the tailback rather than the quarterback, who is used primarily for blocking. The tailback and the fullback both stand about five yards behind the center so that either one many receive the snap from center. The wingback is positioned beside the end on the strong side of the unbalanced line...
Dudley, with an explosive attack attack featuring halfback Tom Berner and quarterback Steve Wimberly, demolished Eliot, 48-6, Tuesday. In their season finale two days later, the Commuters were not nearly as impressive--they lost to Kirkland by forfeit...