Word: staubach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Splendid article [Oct. 18] on the college quarterback, featuring Navy Ace Roger Staubach, the leading contender for the Heisman Trophy at this stage of the campaign with Georgia Tech's Billy Lothridge in close pursuit. As a longtime sports editor in the Deep South before coming East two seasons ago, and as a member of this year's Lambert Trophy committee, I find it a pleasure to see that college football is just as competitive in this area as it was in the South...
...Roger Thomas Staubach, 21, Naval Academy midshipman and college quarterback beyond compare...
...learned that Dana Kelley, the present Green quarterback, may be better than King Kelley has completion 32 of 47 passes for an incredible 70 per cent completion record. King never came close to that mark, and it's hard to remember another quarterback who has, Archie Roberts and Roger Staubach led the nation with 60 per cent passing accuracy last year...
...weeks ago, after the Michigan game in Ann Arbor, Roger flicked on a television set, flopped on a motel bed, and watched a rerun of a game between the Chicago Bears and the Detroit Lions. Finally he got up and turned off the set. "Those Detroit Lions," said Staubach. "They sure need a good quarterback...
Graduation for Staubach is still a year and a half away, and he has a four-year Navy hitch to serve-probably as a supply officer (he is color-blind and tends toward airsickness). But what then? The pros frown on roll-out passing ("We've got too much money invested in our quarterbacks to take any chances on their getting killed"), but the New York Giant's Jim Lee Howell says, "We can always teach a boy to go straight back; we just can't give him an arm or a brain." Staubach has both...