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Penn State quickly scored the first touchdown against Oklahoma, showing roughly what Switzer meant when he called State "a physical, smash-mouth type of ball club" that "splatters you." The wishbone running of Freshman Quarterback Jamelle Holieway was well splattered, but then Holieway blithely dropped back and threw a 71-yd. touchdown pass to a wonderful tight end named Keith Jackson. Oklahoma's most splendid players are on the defense: Nose Guard Tony Casillas, Linebacker Brian Bosworth and Safety Sonny Brown. Penn State could not match them, and in fact had to do heroic work just to keep the Sooners...
...maybe defensive back." This sham goes back as far as leather helmets, but the schools leaving it behind are increasing. No fewer than 15 black quarterbacks have been leading major college teams this year, including Nebraska's Steve Taylor and, until he was injured last Saturday, Oklahoma's Jamelle Holieway...
Which college football team wins this year's national championship is a matter now largely in the hands of an 18-year-old black quarterback from Oklahoma named Jamelle Holieway. The reversal Holieway represents could not be more dramatic if he had been switched to the position from defensive back. There have been black quarterbacks before, even in the South, but this one is being praised less for his legs and arm than for his head. Opponents rave about Holieway's ingenuity, his resourcefulness, his ability to lead and make sudden decisions, almost invariably the right ones. As patronizing...
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