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Shuffling into Yankee Stadium in 1961, a hairless has-been at 35, discarded by San Francisco, Quarterback Yelberton Abraham Tittle passed the New York Giants to three straight Eastern Division titles and won a spread all his own in the N.F.L. record book. But 1964 was the year the Bald Eagle didn't have it. Weary and often injured, he wound up next to last in the passing statistics, and the Giants plummeted to last place. So after 17 years in pro football, Y.A., now 38, announced that he was folding his wings. "I never wanted...
Self-consciously, he tugged at the faded blue baseball cap he wears in practice to cover his balding head. "They always say," murmured Yelberton Abraham Tittle Jr., "that a player is the last one to know when he's too old to play." At 36, the New York Giants' "Yat" Tittle is the oldest quarterback in the National Football League, and the odd cant of his ruddy nose is the talisman of a violent game that he can no longer remember. But nobody-least of all Quarterback-Tittle thinks that he is too ancient to play a young...
...riffles with heavy hands through enemy backs ("I keep the one with the ball"). Last week, once again tackling hard and low, the Colts hit the San Francisco Forty-Niners so hard that they allowed only three first downs, put balding Quarterback Y. A. (for Yelberton Abraham) Tittle in the hospital with a possible fractured knee. Final score: Baltimore 45, San Francisco 14. The victory moved the Colts into a first-place tie in the Western Conference with the Forty-Niners, who have themselves bounced back from a 6-6 season last year largely because of a revamped defense...
...Orleans, Rice, considered the best in the Southwest Conference, faced Louisiana State University, rated the pick of the Southeastern Conference. L.S.U. won, 21 to 14. The margin of difference was principally L.S.U.'s Yelberton Abraham Tittle Jr., one of the nimblest and headiest T-formation quarterbacks in the business. Elsewhere in the South, two perennial powerhouses-Tennessee (to Georgia Tech, 27-0) and Alabama (to Tulane, 21-20)-lost their first games of the season...
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