Word: quarterbacked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...substitution rule rest in the rulebooks, for his first-stringers were, and still are, uninjured. With the guards and tackles playing an average of 58 minutes apiece, Hal Kopp's forward wall showed it "was fundamentally sound" as Harlow put it after the contest. Ed Finn, Brown's slick quarterback was more explicit on the subject asserting that he'd "never been hit so hard, especially by that guard Drvaric...
Daniels is the quarterback. He will carry out the plans of his superiors (Truman, Marshall, Assistant Secretary Norman Armour), but he must call the plays when the going gets fast and rough. Paul Daniels is preparing himself to call the right ones...
...first visited West Point in 1913, Notre Dame was an unsung little Indiana college. In those days spectators got in free, Notre Dame got $1,000 guarantee for the trip and cleared $83 profit. In this game the late, great Knute Rockne (an end) and Gus Dorais (a quarterback) put on a great passing show. Until three years ago, Notre Dame had a top-heavy edge of 22 victories to five losses. Then, while Leahy was off to war, Army's super-dupers, led by the great Davis & Blanchard, humbled the proud Irish two years...
...experts ignored Leahy's coachly gloom ("We are not equipped.'We do not have the weapons"), made the Irish an 18-point favorite. They were mainly impressed by Notre Dame's trigger-armed Quarterback Johnny Lujack. But no sooner had the game begun in jampacked Notre Dame stadium than Leahy uncovered another weapon: a Fighting Irish player who was actually Irish. It took Halfback Terry Brennan exactly 21 seconds to take the opening kick-off and scamper 97 yards for a touchdown. That took the spark out of Army, although they fought hard and had carefully memorized...
Football's fetish for specialization had produced "passers who don't block, and fullbacks who never play when the other team has the ball. Now the quarterback, who used to be the team's field general, was being demoted to drill sergeant. It was all the result of the unlimited substitution rule (TIME...