Word: schloredt
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Patter of Footsteps. On offense, Schloredt is a ground-gaining runner. "He's a blacksmith type of boy," says Assistant Coach Tipps. "He's used to running into folks and he don't mind it a bit." Adds Schloredt: "I've always had strong legs. And there's something about the way I run that gives the illusion of slowness, so that a lot of people have tried to tackle me after I was already past them. It's nothing I invented. It's just an illusion...
...defense, there is nothing illusory about Schloredt. "There's an art to being aggressive," he says. "The idea is that if you can soften up the other guy, he'll be thinking about you. Take a big end. If his passes are good, he'll outreach you and pull them in. And if you just tackle him around the shoetops, he'll fall down, all right. But that's not good enough. You've got to tackle him so he thinks your helmet is going to tear right through him. Next time he comes...
Despite making All-America last year, Schloredt remains one of his own toughest critics: "There were times last year when I did something everyone said was great. But all the time I knew that I maybe couldn't do it again and maybe I did it only accidentally in the first place. It's uncomfortable to know that." Coach Owens is well satisfied to have a quarterback who plays a good game instead of talking one. "A lot of quarterbacks are fiery, holler guys, temperamental guys," says Owens. "Bob, though, leads by example...
...West Coast figured without Washington's Bob Schloredt, 20, a strapping (6 ft., 190 Ibs.) junior quarterback who conspicuously lacks his trade's traditional egotism. Says he: "I consider myself just adequate." More remarkable still, Schloredt has only one good eye: as a boy back in Moorcroft, Wyo., he lost 90% of the vision of his left eye when a chum exploded a firecracker in a bottle...
...against complacent Wisconsin, Quarterback Schloredt was a cocky signal caller who knew that Schloredt himself was Washington's best showdown runner. Early in the first quarter, he twice gambled and twice won by running himself on fourth down and short yardage to go, accounted for 37 yds. in his team's 49-yd. drive for the touchdown that numbed Wisconsin then and there. When Wisconsin quick-kicked, the ball was blocked. Recovering, Wisconsin punted again, and fleet Halfback George Fleming gathered in the ball, scampered 53 yds. into the end zone. Making Wisconsin look slow-witted and heavy...