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...undergraduate at Tennessee's Cumberland University in 1916, Allen got up a tackle football team on short notice and accepted a challenge from Georgia Tech. Manager-Captain Allen, playing fullback when not coaching from the bench, masterfully guided Cumberland to a 222 to 0 defeat...
...Packer Halfback Paul Hornung, the league's leading scorer, out of the game with a pinched nerve in his shoulder. When the Packers were driving for the last-second touchdown that might have won the game, there was Bednarik again, on the very last play, to wrestle Packer Fullback Jim Taylor to the ground on the Eagle 9-yd. line and preserve a 17-13 victory for Philadelphia...
...passed their way to a 35-21 win over the Los Angeles Rams to clinch the National Football League's Western title. Next week in the league-championship game against the East's Philadelphia Eagles, the Packers will match the power game of Halfback Paul Hornung and Fullback Jim Taylor against the pinpoint passing of nerveless Eagle Quarterback Norm Van Brocklin...
...Dark. Before Lombardi's arrival, recalls Hornung, "I wanted to get out of Green Bay. I had been wandering around in a daze-quarterback, halfback, fullback. Having a coach's backing was like coming out of the dark...
Hornung played well in 1959 as the Packers rallied to finish with a respectable 7-5 record, but not until this year did he hit full stride. He kicks field goals. He catches passes. He sweeps the ends. He passes. He slashes up the middle. Paired with jolting Fullback Jim Taylor (6 ft., 210 lbs.), Hornung gives the Packers the most powerful running game in the league...