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...That Made It Impossible." If there is a way, short of absolute mayhem, to defend against Staubach, nobody has found it yet. After four games, he leads the nation both in passing (55 of 77, for 742 yds. and four touchdowns) and total offense (1,024 yds. gained). Before the season opener, West Virginia Coach Gene Corum calculated that his bulky linemen were too slow to catch Staubach. So Corum split his defensive ends to keep Roger bottled up, moved his linebackers into the line. "We contained his running all right," says Corum sourly. "But of course that made...
Navy was a seven-point underdog. But at Annapolis they raised a banner, "Home of Roger Staubach," and for Navy that evened all the odds. Showing an admirable taste for tradition, he completed eleven out of 13 passes, personally accounted for 222 yds. and four touchdowns as Navy won 34-14. Army Coach Paul Dietzel had the air of a man preparing the excuse for next year. "Staubach is head and shoulders above all the other quarterbacks," he said...
...Then he grabs the ball, rolls out to his right, and the fun begins. "At this point," says a Navy coach, "nobody knows what he's going to do except Staubach and God." He may pass, he may run, or he may just drop back 25 or 30 yds., before he makes up his mind. Navy linemen no longer block just one man; they hit, get up and hit somebody else, "because Roger may be coming back again." His receivers run their normal patterns, then keep dashing around waiting for the ball to come winging into their arms...
...both ways on defense; drop back to cover Staubach's pass receivers, blitz the linebackers to nip his running in the bud. Another mistake. Roger played greased pig all afternoon. Once, seemingly pinned behind the line of scrimmage, he abruptly reversed his field and rambled for 25 yds. Said William and Mary Coach Milt Brewer: "Instead of pursuing and trying to catch him, we should have just waited and eventually he'd come back to us." In all, Roger passed and ran for 297 yds. -a new Naval Academy record-and the Middies...
...football." With the ball on the Navy 46 and 13 sec. left in the half, Roger hollered over to Coach Wayne Hardin: "O.K. to go?" Hardin nodded. Roger scampered around, giving his receivers time to get downfield, then he sailed the ball 34 yds. zip through a Michigan defender's arms and straight into the hands of Halfback John Sai. Sai jogged untouched into the end zone. Roger's score for the day: 14 of 16 passes for 237 yds., plus 70 yds. rushing-another Navy record. Final score: Navy 26, Michigan...