Word: staubach
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Dates: during 1963-1963
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...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...
...first time Hardin saw Staubach run with a football was in 1961, when the plebes scrimmaged the varsity. Staubach pursued an erratic course through the entire varsity team. "I thought Staubach was lucky," says Hardin. "It turned out that I was lucky." With Staubach as quarterback, the plebes won seven games, lost only one. The Middies started calling him "Jolly Roger," "Mr. Wizard" and "Mr. Wonderful." And last year Roger became the first sophomore ever to win the Thompson Trophy, which goes to Navy's best all-round athlete. As Hardin says, "I even like to watch this...
...friends know that there is still some good old-fashioned tomfoolery in Navy's model midshipman. Last June he tossed a water bomb into the room where Fullback Pat Donnelly and Guard Fred Marlin were studying for exams. Marlin grabbed a glass of water and headed for Staubach's room: there stood Jolly Roger in his raincoat...
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...