Word: quarterbacked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Crazy Business. As the Secretariat syndication shows, the economics of horse racing is totally cockeyed. Nobody would ever think of retiring a pitcher as soon as he throws a no-hitter, a quarterback as soon as he wins in the Super Bowl. But horse racing -heavily taxed by every state where it exists, requiring tremendous investments in racing plants and breeding farms and the manpower required to train and run its animals-has been turned into a sort of rich man's lottery...
...FOURTH and 38 for the nation's number one football enthusiast. And Dick Whittier, the four-year varsity quarterback for USU, is in big trouble...
...Brayton's shutout was spoiled with two outs and two strikes in the seventh and final inning when erstwhile Lion quarterback Don Jackson belted a home run over the left field fence. Brayton allowed only four hits in the game while striking out eight...
...football field last season, Oklahoma used its devastating Wishbone-T offense to win the Big Eight Conference title, the Sugar Bowl and the No. 2 ranking in the national polls. Off the field, the Sooners tried a variation on the old quarterback sneak that last week caused them to forfeit, retroactively, eight victories in which Freshman Kerry Jackson had participated. According to Big Eight investigators, Quarterback Jackson and Center Mike Phillips, who was on the freshman team, had been ineligible to play. Reason: their grade transcripts from Galveston Ball High School in Texas had been doctored-no one would...
...Jackson, the first black quarterback at Oklahoma, he broke down and cried when informed of the scandal. Though cleared of any complicity, he and Phillips lost their scholarships and playing eligibility for one year. Barry Switzer, the present head coach, tried to be consoling: "I tried to explain [to Jackson] that these people changed the transcript because they thought they were trying to help...