Word: td
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Investment by Phone. Bear Coach Halas spoke in reverent tones of Unitas. "A great quarterback," he said. "A great day." Actually, for Unitas it was just about par: he has been averaging 15 completions and two TD passes a game ever since he broke into the N.F.L. in 1956. Of course, he almost didn't break in at all. The son of a Pittsburgh coal dealer, he was turned down at Notre Dame and Indiana ("I only weighed 145 then," he explains), finally settled for the University of Louisville. After graduation, the Pittsburgh Steelers gave him a tryout, sent...
...back went Carlisle, out went Harris-and once more Donnelly was the Navy goat. Lunging for the ball, Donnelly tipped it straight into the Texan's hands on the Navy 37-and fell flat on his face. The rest of the 63-yd. trip was a breeze. Another TD, 14-0. At last Navy got the message and started blanketing Harris. Down to earth came Carlisle, marching Texas to the Navy 9 and personally swivel-hipping past a pair of tacklers for a third score. He then trotted back to the bench to become a spectator, while Reserve Quarterback...
...sighed: "Well, they all had me down one time or another, and I didn't notice their numbers." Not until Darrell Royal cleared his bench did Roger's passes begin to click: he marched the Middies 75 yds., sprinted 2 yds. himself for Navy's lone TD-and filled the air with footballs in a futile attempt to get still another. He wound up completing 21 out of 31 passes for 228 yds.-15 yds. more than Carlisle, and a Cotton Bowl record. But Staubach won only the statistics; Carlisle won the game...
...heads to a waiting halfback. But the Bears were the ones who were waiting. Chicago Linebacker Larry Morris plucked the ball out of the air on his own 34-and ran to the Giant five be fore he collapsed from sheer exhaustion. Bear Quarterback Billy Wade punched across the TD...
...each game because he thinks they bring him luck. At 33, Giant Halfback Frank Gifford is the man in the collar ads, the face that launched a thousand razor-blade commercials. Each has a special talent: Tittle throws a football better than anybody (60% completion average, a record 36 TD passes this year), and Gifford catches it better than most...