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...Brown has a threat, it has to be a sophomore quarterback Jack McMahon. McMahon is a tricky rollout passer who has completed 22 of 53 passes in the last two games. The Bruins throw roughly twice as much as Harvard, and Crimson defensive backs may have some trouble containing McMahon's chief receivers--end John Olson and halfbacks Dick Filak and Tom Lemire...
...Namath said later, "and they were all covered. Then I looked at George." George was waiting patiently, all by his lonesome, on the Houston 17; Joe hit him with a pass that traveled a good 60 yds. in the air. New York's second touchdown came on a rollout: whirling suddenly, Namath flipped the ball back across the field to Fullback Matt Snell, who ambled 25 yds. Tight End Pete Lammons was Joe's target-a 13-yarder-and then Flanker Don Maynard put on a show of his own. Don caught one TD pass (55 yds.), gathered...
Shortly after dawn on the day of the rollout, a 456-ft.-high door in the Vertical Assembly Building slid slowly open. Inside the eight-acre, 52-story structure, the locomotive-size diesel engines of a giant crawler-transporter thundered into life. Positioned underneath the 36-story Saturn rocket and its umbilical tower-which were supported on six steel columns-the 2,750-ton crawler then gently raised its platform until it had lifted the rocket and tower. Then it ponderously moved its 6,000-ton cargo through the door, over a concrete apron that had been slicked down with...
McCluskey liked the rollout so much he tried it again on the extra point, but this time Yale linemen closed in to stop him at the five. It was Harvard 12, Yale...
...Hughes, on the receiving end of basses from Kubacki, who scored Harvard's first touchdown and set up the second. The first score came on a 12-yard pitch in the first quarter. Early in the second period a 30-yard Kubacki-to-Hughes toss off a rollout pattern set up a two-yard touchdown run by halfback Gary Halpern...