Word: tailback
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tiger offense piled up 288 yards and 17 first downs under the direction of sophomore tailback Dick Bracken, while Rutgers could muster but six first downs...
Using an I formation with an unbal- anced line to the right, Lafayette quarterback Gary Marshall and tailback Richard Craw swept to the right for grequent gains. Harvard later overshifted its defense to halt the sweep, but it was distressing to see Marshall elect to carry the ball on long third-down situations (and make yeardage) rather than take to the air in his customary fashion...
Fifteen years ago, the tailback who wore Princeton's orange-and-black jersey No. 42 was the nation's No. 1 college football player and the choice of every pro team (TIME cover, Nov. 19, 1951). Having passed, punted and rushed the Tigers to 22 straight victories-still a record-Heisman Trophy Winner Richard William Kazmaier neatly straight-armed a pro draft ("With only one league, there was never that much money no matter how good you were"), opted for Harvard Business School. Now 35, his hair thinning slightly and his weight about ten pounds over...
...they could find to oppose No. 2-ranked Arkansas, the winningest (22 straight) club in college football, was Louisiana State, which had struggled through a soso, seven-and-three season. Oddsmakers made Arkansas a nine-point favorite. They counted without a pint-sized (5 ft. 9 in., 164 lbs.) tailback from Cut Off, La., named Joe Labruzzo. Twice, deep in Arkansas territory, Labruzzo carried the ball on four straight plays. On both occasions he scored, and L.S.U. toppled Arkansas...
Princeton followed with touchdowns the next two times it had the ball. Landeck scored both, on a 4-yard sweep and on an 11-yard double reverse. The Tiger tailback hit Bill Potter on a 26-yard pass for Princeton's final score, early in the fourth period...