Word: quarterbacked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DIED. Chester J. LaRoche, 84, former advertising czar and chairman (1954-71) of the National Football Foundation and Hall of Fame; in Southampton, N.Y. The quarterback of Yale's championship football team in 1916, LaRoche went on to head Young & Rubicam, the War Advertising Council, served as vice chairman of the Blue Network (later ABC), and founded his own advertising agency...
...folks who brought the fellas 8 million copies of the Farrah Fawcett-Majors poster have decided to offer something for the girls. By showing pictures of 50 or so men to females in several Ohio shopping malls, Pro Arts Inc. discovered that Pro Quarterback Joe Namath was considered by women the sexiest male of the lot (other high scorers included Robert Redford and Jimmy Carter). Namath posed for two four-hour shooting sessions. Then he suffered a minor mishap, tearing a muscle in his left side. That injury may give him a slow start this week as he launches...
...Kubacki, the starting quarterback of the Harvard football team for the past two years, has not been very successful in trying to break into one of the nation's most elite professions. Only two Harvard graduates have made it in professional football in the recent past, and Kubacki's chances of joining that elite corps look slim at the moment...
...scene is the Winthrop-Mather tackle football game of 1975, Year 1 of the Winthrop intramural dynasty. A minute remains with Winthrop down by six. Quarterback Diamond Jim Durham, in one of his last mentally stable moments (he decided to get married a few months later), calls the "sleeper" play. As the team huddles up, players on the sidelines start calling madly that there are twelve men in the huddle, although there are really the legal eleven...
...year later, it's the touch football championship again, this time against Adams. In the key play of the game, Winthrop is deep in its own territory, and quarterback Alan "Doble House" Dawes drops back to pass. He's caught by a defender on the one-yard line, but referees Frank Crimmins and Jim Gostylo--both Winthrop House members--signal safety, giving Adams House two points and the ball...