Word: runbacks
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...dooming the Quakers by grabbing a Shue pass with a minute and a half remaining in the game. Harvard's punt and kickoff coverage was weak, relinquishing 190 yards, but the kickoff return showed breakaway possibilities with the return of Rod Foster. Foster had one unbelievable, twisting 56-yard runback that came within one defender of going all the way. Ivy Football Standings Cornell 4 0 Dartmouth 4 0 Harvard 2 2 Princeton 2 2 Columbia 2 2 Penn 1 3 Yale 1 3 Brown...
...Philadelphia Eagles' Billy Walik caught a Giant punt and broke loose for a 45-yd. runback. ABC-TV Commentator Howard Cosell spoke up in his distinctive nasal twang: "While we were walking up to the booth tonight, my colleague, Dandy Don Meredith, said: 'Howard, you watch, Walik is going to break a punt tonight.' " To which Colleague Meredith cheerfully replied: "Now, Hahrd, Ah didn't say that. But if you say Ah said it, Ah'll stick with it." Pause. "Hahrd, why do you always do that to me?" The gang in the press...
Adams and Leverett were battling in a scoreless tie until with two minutes left. the Bunnies intercepted a pass at the Adams 25-yard line and tallied on the runback. "For Adams, we've got a decent team." said Dan Levin, the athletic secretary...
...probably be cast as a free safety because of his knack for homing in on the ball. "He's a tough kid," says one scout. "Maybe too tough. I've seen him knock himself cuckoo on tackles." The nation's top punt returner, with an average runback of 11.7 yds., he can go all the way with an interception...
...Cards' statistics are so bearish, of course. Halfback Roland, 23, is the N.F.L.'s No. 1 punt returner at 14.2 yds. per runback. He is a talented passer as well as rusher; against the New York Giants last month he hit Flanker Bobby Joe Conrad with a perfect 40-yarder for a TD. Over the season, Quarterback Johnson, 27, has connected on a respectable 53% of his passes; a cool, methodical signal caller, he invests his spare time at Washington University writing a dissertation on plastics for a Ph.D. in chemical engineering...