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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...victory over Dallas was a typical Packer production fashioned out of both guts and guile. The thermometer in Green Bay stood at 13 below zero, and a 15-m.p.h. wind created a "chill factor" equivalent to 49 below. Packer Quarterback Bart Starr was forced to eat the ball eight times because his receivers were unable to cut properly on the icy field (something the CBS TV cameras never showed). Yet in thelast 5 min., as Dallas led 17-14, Starr coolly, carefully marched his team 69 yds., then took the ball across himself in the final...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: And Now the Super Bowl | 1/12/1968 | See Source »

...that the Raiders can't pass. With 220 completions in 425 attempts, Quarterback Daryle Lamonica is the A.F.L.'s No. 1 passer and its Player of the Year. Lamonica can throw the ball even farther than Green Bay's Starr, but against the Packers' superb secondary, he probably will settle for short "swings," "look-ins" and "square-outs" to Fullback Dixon, Flanker Pete Biletnikoff and Tight End Billy Cannon, a converted halfback who is a threat to go all the way any time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: And Now the Super Bowl | 1/12/1968 | See Source »

Cornell was unimpressive Friday in gaining a close 77-71 advantage over Brown. The next night the scoring of exciting guard Rick Stoner and forward Ed Gladstone and the inspiration of football quarterback Brian Dowling lifted Yale to an unexpected 69-64 victory over...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Two-Team Battle Looms In Ivy League Basketball | 1/9/1968 | See Source »

...Vince Lombardi has always insisted that "defense is the most important part of the game." Now they are beginning to make believers of the fans. As the Rams trot ted out of the Los Angeles Coliseum last week, the standing ovation was not so much for Quarterback Roman Gabriel, who threw three touchdown passes, but for the eleven battered defense men who got him the ball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Four at the Heart | 12/29/1967 | See Source »

...exact count, Olsen and his chums have nailed enemy quarterbacks behind the line of scrimmage no less than 43 times this year, and they have allowed opposing runners an average of only 3.1 yds. per carry. "Some day," says Merlin, "the four of us want to play the perfect game: allow them no points and minus yards on the ground, and even off their passing yardage by dumping their quarterback...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Four at the Heart | 12/29/1967 | See Source »

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