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...that great offensive line. It's a smooth machine." On defense, Martin thinks "Miami is the toughest in the league." Indeed, they have allowed opponents only 11 points per game this season. Figures Martin: "I just don't think Minnesota, even with Fran Tarkenton mixing up plays and scrambling, can consistently move the ball against Miami...
Range was a Little League catcher back in Athens, Ga. He kept dropping pitches because the star hurler threw only blazing fastballs. Athens fans still call that pitcher Francis Tarkenton. Both youngsters were to switch to football, but Range's career stopped in high school. He was a second-string quarterback whom the coach sent in during one game out of a misguided sense of charity. The first pass was intercepted and the unintended receiver easily scored. Range immediately turned to journalism...
Wilt Chamberlain hook sliding into second base. Brooks Robinson passing the puck to Howard Cosell in the keyhole. Fran Tarkenton striking out the side in the World Series. Bobby Orr slashing over right tackle to win the Davis Cup for the Pittsburgh Orioles...
Like anyone in the six-figure bracket, Quarterback Fran Tarkenton of the New York Giants has tax problems. So the business-minded scrambler played hookey instead of football in the first pre-season game because the Giants management would not give him a large loan (paying interest on such a loan while putting the money to work is one way to beat the tax man). With the Jets' Joe Namath hospitalized by a knee injury, it appeared for a while that pro football fans in New York would have no first-string quarterback playing for them this fall...
...highly negotiable currency in the pros, who are quite likely to peg him No. 1 in the draft. The pros are also high on Archie Manning of Ole Miss, 6 ft. 3½ in., 205 lbs. A scrambler in the mold of the New York Giants' Fran Tarkenton, Manning can pick out a receiver in a crowd of defenders and hit him with a pinpoint pass. He has the height to see over mountainous linemen and the speed (10.2 sec. for the 100-yd. dash) to turn the ends for long gainers. Beyond that, he possesses that rare quality...