Word: scrambler
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Bill Pollock, who moved into the quarterback position vacated by graduating All-Ivy Jim Chasey, is a good scrambler and likes to run with the ball on the roll-out option. But Pollock's passing hasn't been too impressive so far this season...
Going against the New Orleans Saints, a team that had stumbled to six straight losses in the exhibition season, Prothro's Rams figured to win in a walk. Instead, they were outrushed and outpassed by the inspired Saints. Rookie Quarterback Archie Manning, the flashy scrambler out of Ole Miss, scored on a keeper play at the gun to give New Orleans a 24-20 upset victory. The New York Giants, another winless team in the exhibition series, were even more disrespectful to Devine's Packers. After scoring on two Green Bay end-zone fumbles, the New Yorkers added...
Like anyone in the six-figure bracket, Quarterback Fran Tarkenton of the New York Giants has tax problems. So the business-minded scrambler played hookey instead of football in the first pre-season game because the Giants management would not give him a large loan (paying interest on such a loan while putting the money to work is one way to beat the tax man). With the Jets' Joe Namath hospitalized by a knee injury, it appeared for a while that pro football fans in New York would have no first-string quarterback playing for them this fall...
...defenses, his ability to command "the utmost respect of his teammates"-all highly negotiable currency in the pros, who are quite likely to peg him No. 1 in the draft. The pros are also high on Archie Manning of Ole Miss, 6 ft. 3½ in., 205 lbs. A scrambler in the mold of the New York Giants' Fran Tarkenton, Manning can pick out a receiver in a crowd of defenders and hit him with a pinpoint pass. He has the height to see over mountainous linemen and the speed (10.2 sec. for the 100-yd. dash) to turn...
...Gatewood, the nation's top receiver, as his prime target, he has hit on 80 of 126 passes to lead the nation's quarterbacks with an astounding .635 completion average. A wispy 6 ft., 170 Ibs., Theismann is what Coach Ara Parseghian calls "a darting scrambler" -a rabbity runner who can turn a broken pass play into a long gainer. He is so effective that the Irish have piled up an average of 544 yds. a game to lead the country in total offense-and total exposure. Each week Notre Dame's games are carried over...