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Both squads started out as contenders for the league title. Both squads suffered through numerous injury problems to leading players. Both squads went through dry stretches when the goalline was as elusive as Fran Tarkenton. Both squads were hurt against Dartmouth. Both squads could-a, should-a, would-a, but didn't against Cornell...
...reader can more readily forgive any lack of suspense or ingenuity in the plot. Sometimes the writer depends on heavy research or personal knowledge: Tennis Star Ilie Nastase and SPORTS ILLUSTRATED Writer Frank Deford both published thrillers this year set on the international tennis circuit, and retired Quarterback Fran Tarkenton collaborated on a pro- football mystery. On occasion, the voyage into another world may be largely imaginary: H.R.F. Keating launched his delightful and convincing comic series about Inspector Ghote of the Bombay police -- the latest is the poignant Under a Monsoon Cloud (Viking; 221 pages; $15.95) -- without ever having...
Among sports-based books, by far the best is Tarkenton's collaboration with Edgar Winner Herb Resnicow, Murder at the Super Bowl (Morrow; 249 pages; $15.95). Aptly, in what has been an injury-plagued N.F.L. season, the plot turns on the vulnerability -- and, Tarkenton argues, innate pacifism -- of quarterbacks vs. the inherent violence of defensive linemen...
...Tuesday, when the results of this year's voting were announced, the votes were there, and Hornung was elected with four other former National Football League greats: quarterback Fran Tarkenton, halfback Doak Walker and defensive standouts Willie Lanier and Ken Houston...
...National Football League quarterback has thrown more passes, completed more, for more yards or touchdowns. Still Tarkenton is regarded vaguely as a loser and alibier. Had the Vikings made good on even one of their chances, would he have been left at the door last week when Roger Staubach and Joe Namath (the league's 61st-ranked passer) stepped into the Hall of Fame? To the victors go the spoils...