Word: halfback
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...coached by canny Allie Sherman, that is far stronger and far fresher than the squad they trounced last time around. Giant Quarterback Y. A. ("Yat") Tittle is this year's master of the long pass, the touchdown "bomb," has thrown more scores (27) than any other pro. Giant Halfback Frank Gifford is riding the crest of a spectacular comeback after a year's retirement, and Tittle's favorite receiver, Del Shofner, is the league's best end, so surehanded and deceptive that even with an ulcer (which put him in the hospital for a rest last...
...trip from the 50-yd. line to the bench was a proud one for Byron R. ("Whizzer") White, 45. An All-America halfback at Colorado ('37). White won a Rhodes scholarship, played pro football for Pittsburgh and Detroit, finished at the top of his class at Yale Law School, finally made the biggest time of all when President Kennedy sent him in as Associate Supreme Court Justice in 1962. In recognition of White's unsurpassed career as athlete and jurist, the National Football Foundation and Hall of Fame gave him its fifth annual Gold Medal Award. Another honor...
Placing three quarterbacks on the first string conceivably could be defended if there was a great dearth of talent at other backfield positions. There wasn't this year, and this resulted in another mistake-the omission of Harvard's halfback Bill Taylor...
...HALFBACKS: Jerry Stovall, 21, Louisiana State; 6 ft. 2 in., 200 lbs. Mel Renfro, 20, Oregon; 6 ft., 190 lbs. "Stovall is the complete football player." reads a scouting report. "Runner, receiver, defensive player, kicker. Comes up with the big play when it's needed." Oregon's Renfro can sprint 100 yds. in 9.6 sec., change direction in a flash; he still has a year of college to go, but the scouts consider him the best running back in the country: "No senior can run as well." U.C.L.A.'s Kermit Alexander...
...They Can Be Beat." All that success began to prey on them. Last week, the Packers needed a last-ditch, 23-yd. touchdown run by Halfback Tom Moore to beat Baltimore, 17-13. "The games are getting tougher every week," complained Head Coach Vince Lombardi. "The other teams are pointing for us. Every time they tackle us now, it seems like their life depends on it." Above all, the second-place (8 won, 2 lost) Detroit Lions were pointing for the Packers. Last time the two teams met, Green Bay won, 9-7, on a field goal with 33 seconds...