Word: shofner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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GOOD professional athletes often acquire mystical followers. People accustomed to the skills of the superstars come to believe that the good guys can only win. I once so worshipped the New York Giants, Y. A. Tittle and Del Shofner handled the football so beautifully that they could not fail. On Sundays I could balance Tittle's lyrical bombs with the brutal contact of Roosevelt Greer and Sam Huff and happily watch the Giants mutilate they lost and their following dwindled...
...offensive interference penalty pushed the Elis back and on fourth down, dropped the snap from center. After a mad scramble, the Crimson's Wes Shofner recovered at the Yale...