Word: balled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...captain O'Hiri finally showed the large what they'd been waiting to see. a pass from center halfback Bill the speedy Nigerian angled in the right and faked one of his bullet drives at the waiting goalie. At the last second, however, O'Hiri fed the ball across to left George Draper, who calmly booted into the unguarded left corner for the tally of the game...
After changing sides at the 22-minute mark, Monro's team evened the game at 5:35. The tying goal came on the same play that scored the second. Wendell took possession of the ball at the spot where he set up Chang's clincher. The Crimson junior faked out two Penn defenders, as he did later, and kept driving in on the far left. He let go a high shot for which Burg leaped, but the ball caught in the nets...
...pelvis-twirling Elvis Presley might most fear are a sore throat, a dislocated hip, or an injury to his guitar-strumming paw. During his recent Army draftee stint he was briefly silenced by tonsillitis. Last week, during a touch-football game in home-town Memphis, Elvis dived at the ball carrier, broke the little finger of his string-zinging hand. His hips, however, are still swinging...
Around this basic maneuver Schwartzwalder has built a system of plays that unfold with the relentless logic of a theorem in geometry. "We keep slamming that fullback off-tackle, and the defense has to bunch up to stop us. So the quarterback will fake the ball to the fullback and run outside himself, or pitch out to the tailback who's trailing him. Now they've got to bring up their secondary. That leaves them weak for option passes thrown by the tailback...
...sorrow this season, the main weakness of burly Syracuse is mental. "I want a team to go into a game ready to hit and be alert mentally, rather than all fired up and ready to make a lot of mistakes," he says. "It's mistakes that lose ball games." If the players are really ready for battle, they leave some steak on their plates the morning of a game. Says Coach Ben Schwartzwalder: "My dog can get a good hoggin' on gameday leftovers...