Word: quarterbacked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lunchtime basketball game, is a prelude for Simla's key off-season job: rewriting the offensive and defensive scripts. "To get the clutter out of our playbook," explains Shula, "we have to scrap plays that don't work. If we didn't do that, our quarterback might go into a huddle in a crucial situation, unknowingly pick a flawed play out of the playbook he has memorized, and we could lose." Counting variations on basic tactics, there are approximately 100 plays in the Dolphin book and each season between 5% and 10% are abandoned. In recent years...
...Beer, director of Player Personnel for the Stars, said yesterday that the team is "close to terms" in their bid to sign Jim Stoeckel, this year's quarterback and most valuable player...
Sixty-four days after pulling off his Crimson shoulder pads for the last time, Harvard quarterback Jimmy Stoeckel received what may be his highest accolade yet Saturday night, unanimously winning the Swede Nelson Award from the Boston Gridiron Club for his superlative senior season at Harvard...
...kept Stoeckel waiting in the wings for two years, Crimson coach Joe Restic, said that Stoeckel "did everything you can ask of a quarterback," and heaped praise on his departing signal-caller...
Swede Nelson himself, from whom the Award takes its name, lavishly praised Harvard's quarterback. "He has the kind of greatness and kindness given only to a rare few," Nelson said Saturday, concluding that Stoeckel is "a distinguished scholar, a great American, and a distinct success as a human being...