Word: quarterback
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Saturday against the Crimson, Holy Cross was leading 34-6 and had the ball at the 20 yard line with less than four minutes left in the game. Holy Cross quarterback Jeff Wiley dumped a screen pass out to Gordie Lockbaum, who raced 75 yards down the sideline before he was tackled from behind by Harvard safety Jim Smith...
Against Harvard Saturday, Gordie broke free after taking a screen pass from his quarterback. But he was run down in open field by Harvard's second-string safety. At the end of his run, Gordie lay exhausted on the turf...
...there was Lockbaum. Oh, there was Golden Gordie, Flash Gordon. The blond, blue-eyed Heisman Trophy candidate took a pitch from quarterback Jeff Wiley and sprinted to his right. He tucked the ball neatly...
...most noticeable damage has been done in Dallas, where the first man through the picket line was Co-Captain Randy White. "Captain Scab," Tailback Tony Dorsett called him. In the next instant, threatened by the fine print in his contract, Dorsett followed. Quarterback Danny White too. "White's a weenie! We want Sweeney!" the fans clamored. Tired of decay, they actually preferred the rhinestone Cowboys, led by a small and appealing Doug Flutie- type, Kevin Sweeney. Repaying Tom Landry for a lopsided replacement loss three weeks ago, Philadelphia Coach Buddy Ryan gleefully ran up the score last week...
...without a veteran strikebreaker, though a few old hands were bumped last week for their trouble. Glenn Dennison lost his reserve tight-end slot to a man he had beaten out earlier, Craig McEwen. "If I knew then what I know now," Dennison said, "I'd have never left." Quarterback Babe Laufenberg, who ended a third Redskins episode with still no playing time, squandered his best chance on the picket line. "I have one foot on a banana peel and the other in the grave," he said, "and I didn't even get to eat the banana...