Word: quarterback
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...ears. It can also be the most costly. Last week, in one of the biggest deals in pro football history, the National Football League's floundering New York Giants (1966 record: one win, one tie, twelve losses) took title to an expensive piece of property indeed: Quarterback Francis Tarkenton, 27, late of the Minnesota Vikings. The price included Tarkenton's $60,000 salary, the Giants' first-round draft choices for both 1967 and 1968, plus their second-round pick this year and another player to be named later. It all adds up to some...
...have turned into the patsies of the N.F.L.'s Eastern Conference, and at the gate, where they have been losing the battle to the A.F.L. All last fall, longtime Giant fans could be found across town at Shea Stadium, watching the New York Jets and their $485,000 quarterback, Joe Namath-whose talent for picking apart pass defenses made him a celebrity on the Manhattan nightclub circuit as well as on the field. Stealing the spotlight from Namath is a tall order for a Methodist minister's son who is married, a father, neither drinks nor smokes...
...best of the frosh finals will be in the 155 lb. and 185 lb. classes. At the lighter weight, Holworthy's football quarterback John Ballantyne fights Jim Coleman of Matthews South, a dancing, darting type fighter...
...tall Pennsylvanian Czech blamed his defense for that poor performance. The coach made his point by asking, "Can anybody here play cornerback?" He conceded, however, that his defenders were up against the man with "the greatest arm ever" in the Jets' quarterback Joe Namath...
...York football Giants picked up Minnesota quarterback Fran Tarkenton yesterday in a move to climb from the NFL cellar and help New York fans forget the similarly scrambling Cornellian. Gary Wood, who was given away to the New Orleans Saints last month. Tarkenton, who refused to return to the Vikings, was purchased dearly -- for this year's top two draft choices, the number one pick the next year, and a player to be agreed...