Word: quarterbacked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Holding a 10-7 lead in the third period, Yale turned a miracle to put the game in its favor. Senior quarterback Pat O'Brien lofted a down-the-middle toss to favorite target John Spagnola, but the Eli receiver could only tip the pass high up into...
After 8:11 and ten Penn plays from scrimmage, all on the ground, the Quakers had racked up 114 yards and two touchdowns. Quarterback Tom Roland had 89 yards rushing and the blue-clad youngsters in Franklin Field for Cub Scout Day were jumping up and down in the their seats...
...were in the wrong defense in the beginning," sophomore safety Mike Jacobs, who came in for McLeod, said after the game. "We had to get to the quarterback," head coach Joe Restic said, explaining the adjustments Harvard made to handle the quarterback-halfback pitch...
...quarterback receives the ball from between the center's legs. After a successful play, teammates sometimes hug or slap each other on the bottom. The possible homosexual implications of these and other football rituals have long been noted by professional and amateur behavioralists alike. But none have studied the subject more closely than Alan Dundes, an anthropologist at the University of California in Berkeley. In his view, fanny patting and centering the ball are only the tip of the gay iceberg. Writing in Western Folklore, Dundes says that the "unequivocal sexual symbolism of the game" makes it clear that...
...consistency of the imagery "nothing short of amazing." He notes that uniforms are sexual-enlarged head and shoulders, narrow waist and skintight pants accented by a molded codpiece. The jargon too is erotic: "score," "down," "piling on" (gang rape), "popping" an opponent (overtones of defloration) and "sacking" the quarterback (plunder and rape). Players try to knock opponents down, putting them in the "supine, feminine position." Indeed, says Dundes, "football is a ritualized form of homosexual rape. The winners feminize the losers by getting into their end zone...