Word: quarterbacked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...still had time to indulge the passion of his youth: football. A strapping youngster, he played center for South High School for reasons that probably had as much to do with temperament as physique. Ford always had his hand on the ball, but he snapped it to the quarterback who called the plays and scored the touchdowns. As Ford acknowledges, he never stopped playing center even when he gave up football: "I've tried to be a good blocker and tackier for the running back who carries the ball...
...assistant offensive coach in 1959, succeeded tough-talking Don Shula as head coach in 1970 and guided the team to a Super Bowl victory in his first season. Less than two years later, he was dismissed by Colts General Manager Joe Thomas-ostensibly for refusing to bench Aging Star Quarterback Johnny Unitas (TIME, Aug. 5)-and signed on with the Lions in January...
...record book, the greatest quarterback in pro football history. But last week Johnny Unites, 41, turned in his shoulder pads. "I'm taking up time on the field that could be used for younger fellows," he said, resigning from the San Diego Chargers-who last year signed him to a two-year, $500,000 contract-and retiring from pro ball. Troubled by arthritis, Johnny spent much of the season on the bench. He looks back on his 18-year career with satisfaction...
...publication by year's end. Edwards is given almost no chance of survival in the November election against the winner of a Democratic runoff next week. That race pits Congressman William Jennings Bryan Dorn, 58, against a promising newcomer in South Carolina politics, former Harvard Star Quarterback Charles ("Pug") Ravenel, 36, a Charleston investment banker...
Jack Kemp, 38, played quarterback for the San Diego Chargers and Buffalo Bills before he decided to call some political plays as a Republican Congressman from the Buffalo, N.Y., suburbs. An outspoken conservative, Kemp was narrowly elected to Congress in 1970, won re-election two years later with 73% of the vote. A staunch environmentalist and strong national security advocate, he introduced 115 bills in Congress during his first term. "Problems are not problems; they are opportunities," Kemp says...