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Bored to Death. It was a game full of surprises-and Duke Carlisle was the biggest. In any other season, on any other team, Quarterback Carlisle might long ago have caught the fancy of sportswriters with his nifty short passes (33 completions in 79 attempts) and nimble rollout runs. But this was the Year of the Quarterback; compared to such wizardrous performers as Navy's Heisman Trophy Winner Roger Staubach, Carlisle was a face in the crowd. At that, No. 1-ranked Texas was hardly the showcase for a quarterback. Grinding over ten straight opponents by a score...
...QUARTERBACK: Roger Staubach, 21, Navy, 6 ft. 2 in., 190 lbs. At first, the pros were lukewarm about Staubach (TIME cover, Oct. 18). "He's a scrambler, a rollout quarterback," said one. "He doesn't play the pro game." But 1,738 yds. and 15 TDs later, Roger is the No. 1 choice of 17 out of 22 pro teams. Says Coach Buddy Parker of the Pittsburgh Steelers: "For his position, the best college player I've ever seen." The "book" on Roger: "Very accurate, shifty, strong, great peripheral vision, unmatched at hitting secondary receivers. A perfect...
Yale has not passed a lot this year, but when quarterbacks have thrown they usually favored a straight drop back. Sometimes they have thrown on the rollout play that past Eli quarterbacks like Tom Singleton used to perform so well, but only rarely have they used the belly take to set up their throws...
...fourth string," he says. Because his handoffs were too slow, his passing mediocre, Hornung was used only sparingly in Packer games, was permitted to call only five specific plays. "In one game," he recalls, "a player saw me coming in and yelled, 'Look who's here-rollout right or left, option right or left, or quarterback sneak...
Crimson quarterback Grady Watts scored the winning touchdown on an 11-yard rollout-option run run around right end late in the fourth quarter. Halfback Bob Hunter successfully toed the conversion...