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...Lord Jeffs promise to display something which the Crimson has not seen this year--a fast, well-balanced team with a strong attack and some outstanding individual performers. With particular strength at right fullback, center half, and left outside, the Amherst game features long wing-half passing and daring defensive play by two excellent goalies...
...news is a corps of fleet-footed backs who can run over and around the most dogged linebacker, butt heads with the best in the country. Among them: > Baylor's bull-necked Ronnie Bull (6 ft., 198 Ibs.), a halfback last season, who was switched to fullback this year to take advantage of his straight-ahead speed. Bull runs the 100-yd. dash in 9.8 sec., has exceptional balance. Says Texas Linebacker Pat Culpepper: "You don't get Bull the first time-because he just bounces off. You have to get him on the second bounce...
...Broyles: "He's what we call an even and leavin' man. When he's even with you, he's leavin'." >Texas Christian's Guy ("Sonny") Gibbs, at 6 ft. 7 in. and 230 Ibs. the biggest quarterback in college football, runs like a fullback and has such long arms that teammates claim he doesn't need to pass-"he just hands the ball across the line...
...right, second-team quarterback Mike Bassett (23) hands off to halfback Bill Taylor (12). Other Crimson players identifiable are fullback Fred Bartl (30) and guard Ernie Zissis (69). Taylor was a pleasant surprise for coach John Yovicsin. Hurt early in September, he was not expected to play this fall. But he excelled Saturday, in his third day of contact work...
This doesn't happen much with Eliot, however. Eight players from last year's championship team are back, including quarterback Roger Skemp and center Hugh Ault. Running out of a split T. Eliot uses Andy Shea and Mark Woodbury at halfback, and Keith Striggow at fullback. Woodbury's left-handed passes make the Elephant offense particularly dangerous...