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Packer Coach Vince Lombardi tried to take the news stoically: "Well, no one person is bigger than the team." But Lombardi knew that the loss of Halfback Hornung might well turn the Packers into the patsies of the N.F.L. On every team in pro football, there is one indispensable player-one man on whose individual performance the team's success depends. The Baltimore Colts have Johnny Unitas. The Cleveland Browns have Jimmy Brown. On the Green Bay Packers, the indispensable man is Paul Vernon Hornung...
...former football player, law student, physics teacher and college coach, Lombardi is a hard-nosed disciplinarian and an advocate of forthright, bone-rattling football. At Green Bay, Lombardi's first job was to find a man around whom he could build an offense-a hard-running halfback who could throw a pass on the run. "Hornung was the type of halfback I had to have," Lombardi says. "I made up my mind he was going to be it, and I said, 'Look, boy, this is your job. You take it.' " He took it-and neither Lombardi...
Columbia then kicked off to the Crimson, and halfback Billy Taylor, who turned in the best performance of his college career Saturday, returned the ball to the 30. Quarterback Mike Bassett, working at times with a new unbalanced-line attack, could not move the club, and on fourth down Taylor went back for the punt. Then came the fatal high pass from center, and Columbia took over on the Harvard 19. On the fourth play, Haggerty ran the ball nine yards off right tackle untouched for the Lions' second TD. Again, the PAT attempt failed...
...Harvard's comeback drive in the third quarter, halfback Chuck Reed, who had broken up Columbia's initial series of the game by intercepting a Vasell pass in the end zone, moved the ball 35 yards from the Harvard 30 to the Columbia 35 on the first play. Taylor and fullback Grana carried the load for the rest of the way until Taylor pushed the ball over from the one yard line at 9:14. The 70-yard drive was covered in 12 plays...
...sophomores Bill Humenuk and Mike Bassett. In general, Humenuk is the passer, and Bassett is the runner, and although Bassett will start today, "The one who moves us best will play most of the game," Yovicsin says. Bill Grana will start at fullback, and Tom Boone will share the halfback attack with Chuck Reed, who missed last week's game because of a leg injury...