Word: yds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...football scout on the premises could have diagramed the play in less than a minute, and planned a defense against it a minute later. There would be only one difficulty: in the past three years, no defense yet devised has been able to stop Halfback Lattner from averaging 5 yds. every time he has carried the ball. A rawboned husky who stands 6 ft. 2 in. and weighs 195 Ibs., Lattner is admiringly assessed by Backfield Coach Bill Earley as a power runner. "Some guys, when you get a hand on them, they go down. Not John." Head Coach Frank...
...constant threat to the opposition, and his booming kicks travel so high and far that even the slowest-footed Notre Dame lineman can get downfield to smother the receiver. This year Notre Dame's opponents. ' returning Lattner's punts, have averaged less than 2 yds...
Notre Dame needed vital first-down yardage, Quarterback Ralph Guglielmi called for Notre Dame's bread & butter boy, Johnny Lattner. In twelve carries, Johnny twisted and power-drove through Navy for 50 yds...
...football field. Johnny won All-State honors as an end in 1948, his junior year. The next year Captain-elect Lattner was shifted to halfback, where he became a bread & butter boy for Fenwick Coach Tony Lawless. Known as "Big John" to his teammates. Lattner averaged 18 yds. a carry. He made All-State again, the first player in Illinois records to do it two years in a row at different positions. He also led Fenwick to the finals of the Chicago championship. Fenwick lost, but Johnny will never forget the crowd that turned out for the game. "There were...
...Gold Nugget. After the football seasons at Fenwick, Johnny found time to 1) captain the basketball team and lead it in scoring for four straight years, 2) win two track letters as a dash man (10.3 for 100 yds., 22.3 for 220). Such athletic prowess did not pass unnoticed by the college football scouts...