Word: quarterbacked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...football team's 20-14 overtime victory last Saturday marked the end of the Crimson's non-Ivy League schedule. It marked the end of games Harvard can lose and still repeat as Ivy champions. And it marked the end of junior Rich Linden's unquestioned tenure as starting quarterback...
...biggest question for Harvard this weekend has been at starting quarterback. Despite energizing the Crimson offense by completing 10-of-16 passes for 98 yards and a touchdown in the second half, junior Brad Wilford will probably remain the backup quarterback, according to two offensive players...
...There's no way any rookie quarterback can have a clue," agrees Madden. Charlie Batch, an unheralded Detroit Lions rookie, has at times looked better than Manning or Leaf, but he's still working in the dark too. Madden says it's partly because college defenses are run oriented and NFL defenses, which are pass oriented, change drastically from one down to the next and one team to the next...
...takes five years to figure it out," says Terry Bradshaw, who had the snot knocked out of him as a young quarterback, lost games as if he'd invented it and went on to win four Super Bowls. "With big money comes big responsibility, but these guys are kids...
...learning from the bench, Madden says it's a moot point with Manning and Leaf because their teams don't have better quarterbacks. For better or worse, they are the future of each franchise, and both Madden and Bradshaw say that although Leaf can throw the football to Hawaii, Manning is further along in geometry class. He's the son of Archie Manning, a heck of a quarterback who played for the Saints when they were called the Aints and fans wore bags over their heads, so Junior might have inherited some poise, a quality everyone is very...