Word: tailback
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...against such middling opposition as Wyoming, Montana, Utah State. B.Y.U. now belongs to the new Western Athletic Conference, and with only three victories in nine games, it is still the weakling of its league. But this season, the Cougars have grown at least one gleaming fang: a laconic, crewcut tailback named Eldon ("The Phantom") Fortie, whose record on offense is the best in college football...
Princeton has an amazing backfield led by tailback Greg Riley. Riley weighs only 165 pounds, but he's one of the fastest backs in the East and has gained 456 yards in 92 attempts so far this year. Riley, a senior from Rochester, N.Y., also has completed 21 of 42 passes and leads the Ivy League in total offense...
...Twinkle Toes. A onetime single-wing tailback at Louisiana State, Tittle started his pro career in 1948 when many of his teammates were still in grammar school. He spent two years with Baltimore in the old All-America Conference (1949 record: 1 win, 11 losses), put in ten years with the San Francisco 49ers. Everyone agreed that he could pass, but he was no twinkle toes as a runner, and when the 49ers shifted to a ground game last year, he was traded to the Giants. "Hindsight," says San Francisco Coach Red Hickey mournfully, "is always clearer than foresight." Against...
...Harvard football.* Teddy was big enough (6 ft. 2 in., 200 Ibs.) and strong enough. But he lacked speed and agility. To improve his blocking, he persuaded a teammate to work with him for long hours after practice. To improve his tackling, he persuaded Captain Dick Clasby, a star tailback, to serve as his personal tackling dummy...
Fullback Bill Grana was the first sophomore chosen for the first team since Danny Sachs of Princeton turned the trick in 1957. The promising Tiger Tailback was hampered by injuries for the rest of his career and never made it again...