Word: simpson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...called "30-pull" in the San Francisco 49er playbook. The quarterback spins and fakes to the fullback who is following a pulling guard and tackle. But the ball is handed to O.J. Simpson, who takes it up the middle. But there was a difference last week as the 49ers called 30-pull late in their season finale with Atlanta: Simpson was carrying the ball for the last time after eleven years of professional football and a thick sheaf of records: most yardage in a single season; most career 200-plus-yard games (six); most consecutive 100-plus-yard games (seven...
Watching Harvard's number 32 move the football Saturday against Yale, it seemed as if Cleveland's Jim Brown or San Francisco's O.J. Simpson had joined the Ivy League. But after the Crimson had sealed a decisive 22-7 victory over the Elis, the game's leading rusher took off his helmet to reveal sophomore Jim Callinan...
...answer, as shell-shocked defenders throughout the league can attest, was an emphatic yes. And if he is not as well known at the car-rental counter as OJ. Simpson, on the football field, bird-legged, black-bearded Dan Fouts (as in shouts) has become as potent an offensive weapon as the airport baggage hurdler was in his prime. In just 10 games, Fouts has passed for a league-leading 2,479 yds., and his 63.2% completion percentage puts him first among the N.F.L.'s 28 starting quarterbacks. On his strong arm, the Chargers climbed to a tie with...
...fair and balanced appraisal," said Wyoming Senator Alan Simpson, the senior Republican on the Senate subcommittee on nuclear regulation. Said Colorado Democrat Gary Hart, the subcommittee chairman: "It substitutes close scrutiny and hard criticism for the gloss and platitudes of past studies...
...Duffy and Sam McDowell to the Giants; 82. Nettles and Jerry Moses went to the Yankees for John Ellis, Jerry Kenney, Charlie Spikes, and Rosendo Torres; 83. Willie Montanez and Jim Browning went to the Phillies; 84. Dave May and Roger Alexander for Hank Aaron; 85. Milt Pappas, Dick Simpson, and Jack Baldschun: 86. Bill Robinson, Diomedes (Chi Chi) Olivo for Boyer; 87. Singleton, Mike Jorgensen, and Tim Foli to Expos for Rusty Staub; 88. Singleton, and Mike Torrez for Dave McNally, Rich Coggins and Bill Kirkpatrick; 89. Bonds to Yankees for Bobby Murcer; to Angels for Mickey Rivers...