Word: shofner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tittle is this year's master of the long pass, the touchdown "bomb," has thrown more scores (27) than any other pro. Giant Halfback Frank Gifford is riding the crest of a spectacular comeback after a year's retirement, and Tittle's favorite receiver, Del Shofner, is the league's best end, so surehanded and deceptive that even with an ulcer (which put him in the hospital for a rest last week) he makes sieves out of most pass defenses...
...caught flatfooted by a suddenly sprung long pass. "There's no such thing as a 'sure thing' in football," says Tittle. "The important thing is to play percentages-to do the thing that has the best chance of success." Last week End Del Shofner reported that Redskin Defender Claude Crabb could be faked out of position. "Yeah," nodded Tittle, 'as soon as we get a chance." By game's end, Shofner had caught eleven Tittle passes for 269 yds. and one touchdown...
...much beset King Hill is lucky to get three seconds. Patton knows that the Colts' Lenny Moore will tip off the fact that he is going deep for a pass by shuffling through his first few steps, and he knows that the Los Angeles Rams' Del Shofner starts at top speed when he is the deep...