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Triple Talents. Lattner is more than a ball carrier. In the two-platoon era of a year ago-when most players were either offensive or defensive specialists, and few ball-carrying halfbacks ever dirtied their hands with a tackle-Johnny Lattner was one of football's rare iron men, a 6c-minute player who enjoyed making a crackling tackle almost as much as he enjoyed lugging the ball. On the offensive, Halfback Lattner was and is a throwback to the days of the genuine triple-threat back; his ability to pass from a running play is a constant threat...
...these manifold talents, Halfback Johnny Lattner, as a Notre Dame junior, got the Maxwell Trophy as the outstanding football player of 1952. and he was the only player to make everybody's All-America team. This year, when two-way players are at a premium with the end of the two-platoon system, when football is again producing iron men instead of wooden specialists, All-America Lattner is taking up where he left...
...being intelligently aggressive on the football field. Johnny won All-State honors as an end in 1948, his junior year. The next year Captain-elect Lattner was shifted to halfback, where he became a bread & butter boy for Fenwick Coach Tony Lawless. Known as "Big John" to his teammates. Lattner averaged 18 yds. a carry. He made All-State again, the first player in Illinois records to do it two years in a row at different positions. He also led Fenwick to the finals of the Chicago championship. Fenwick lost, but Johnny will never forget the crowd that turned...
...yard tackle slaut by halfback Jim Hurlock capped Princeton's second touchdown drive, in the second period. Swinford again scored on the extra point on another quarterbacks sneak...
...Crimson forward line suffered from its season-long inability to shoot. Center halfback Stacy Holmes came as close as anyone with a shot he took from the midfield stripe. It was a tremendous boot, even though the ball was as sodden as the field and weighed twice as much as usual...