Word: quarterback
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Three years ago, the Giants were one of the toughest teams in the National Football League, winners of four Eastern Conference championships in five years. Sherman, a Brooklyn boy himself, won a ten-year contract of $40,000 per. But the Giants decided that their team needed rebuilding. Quarterback Y. A. Tittle went to sell insurance in California, and the Giants traded away an All-Pro linebacker (Sam Huff), two All-Pro tackles (Roosevelt Grier and Dick Modzelewski), and an All-Pro defensive back (Erich Barnes). Result: in 1964, the Giants won two of 14 games. In 1965, they...
CANTON, N.Y., December 10--If misery loves company, Johnny Unitas and the Harvard hockey team should be fast friends now. Like the Baltimore quarterback four hours before, the Crimson fumbled away a golden chance for a rare sweep of Clarkson and St. Lawrence, falling to the Larries...
...biggest in either league, averages 253 lbs. from end to end. Kansas City has three of the A.F.L.'s ten top rushers: Halfback Garrett (566 yds.) is No. 5, Halfback Bert Coan (476 yds.) is No. 6, and Fullback Curtis McClinton (408 yds.) is No. 7. Quarterback Len Dawson, a natural rollout passer who could not make it with the N.F.L.'s Pittsburgh Steelers and Cleveland Browns, has come into his own in Coach Hank Stram's "movable pocket" passing offense; he has hit on 57% of his passes-for 2,285 yds. and 25 touchdowns. Dawson...
...Chiefs' real strength is their depth. To back up Quarterback Dawson, Kansas City has Pete Beathard, who led Southern Cal to the national college championship in 1962. Last week Dawson injured a hand in the third quarter, and Beathard came in to complete seven out of ten passes. On defense, the Chiefs are so rich that they cannot find a regular slot for their No. 1 draft choice of 1965-Minnesota Lineman Aaron Brown, who signed for a $300,000 bonus. Or maybe they're taking pity on their opponents. Brown stands 6 ft. 5 in. and weighs...
...QUARTERBACK by Murray Olderman. 437 pages. Prentice-Hall. $12.95. An attempt with words and pictures to explain the collisions that take place on autumnal afternoons. The game, which Sports Editor Olderman defines as "human chess," receives thorough coverage, including the author's own rating of the best pro quarterbacks: 1) Otto Graham, 2) John Unitas, and 3) Bobby Layne...