Word: tds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dropped back to pass. Nobody noticed Rockne, hobbling painfully down the sideline. Suddenly, the limp disappeared; he was running full tilt toward the Army goal, reaching up for the pass. Touchdown! Before the long afternoon was over, Notre Dame's passing attack had clicked for 243 yds. and two TDs, and the unknown Indiana school had upset mighty Army...
...QUARTERBACK: Roger Staubach, 21, Navy, 6 ft. 2 in., 190 lbs. At first, the pros were lukewarm about Staubach (TIME cover, Oct. 18). "He's a scrambler, a rollout quarterback," said one. "He doesn't play the pro game." But 1,738 yds. and 15 TDs later, Roger is the No. 1 choice of 17 out of 22 pro teams. Says Coach Buddy Parker of the Pittsburgh Steelers: "For his position, the best college player I've ever seen." The "book" on Roger: "Very accurate, shifty, strong, great peripheral vision, unmatched at hitting secondary receivers. A perfect...
...averaged 14.9 yds. a try as a high school halfback. Spurning baseball offers (from the New York Yankees and Milwaukee Braves), he packed off to Syracuse, majored in football and sociology and minored in track, lacrosse and basketball. As a greenhorn pro, he rushed for 942 yds., scored ten TDs and powered Cleveland to the N.F.L.'s Eastern Conference championship. The next year he set an alltime rushing record of 1,527 yds. and for five years topped all N.F.L. ground gainers...
...victories, outscored its opponents 219 to 55, wound up No. 1 in the nation. It had a highly touted quarterback in Pete Beathard, 20, a 200-lb. junior, and an All-America end in Hal Bedsole, who had broken every U.S.C. pass-catching record (29 catches, 726 yds., 9 TDs...
...better performance in the second half, but McCarthyism and the jarring tackles of Harvard backs continued unabated. After the game, Bill Grana reported his head was rining from the tackles. The cannon on the sidelines left fans' ears rining as it boomed twice in eight minutes for Holy Cross TDs in the third quarter...