Word: halfbacks
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...garish expanse of the Moderne Room in Manhattan's Belmont Plaza Hotel last week, Pro Football Commissioner Pete Rozelle stood up and patiently repeated the same announcement half a dozen times for the benefit of the surrounding cameras and microphones: "The Buffalo Bills select O. J. Simpson, halfback, University of Southern California...
Jack Daly, president of the Gridiron Club said, "Vie was far more than a great player. He was rated highly for his work with disadvantaged children last summer, and players on opposing teams had only the highest praise for him as a sportsman as well as a great halfback...
Frank in the Flesh. Seldom has a college backfield contained two more offensive threats than Yale's Quarterback Brian Dowling and Halfback Calvin Hill. A real-life Frank Merriwell, Dowling does everything but carry water, and in three seasons he has rewritten the Yale record book. No less talented is Hill, a slashing runner with 13 touchdowns to his credit this year...
...then Champi lost 2 yds. trying to pass. The clock read 3 sec.; time for only one more play. Back again dropped Champi, frantically dodging tacklers, searching for a receiver. Just as he was about to be buried under Yale men, he unloaded a perfect pass to Halfback Vic Gatto in the end zone...
...option play, and ran head-on into two tacklers. One hit him high, while the other pinioned his left leg. Snap went a ligament in Hanratty's left knee, and that was the end of his season. Four days later, the Chicago Bears' breakaway halfback, Gale Sayers, hit similar trouble when he tried to turn the corner on an end run. He planted his right foot to cut downfield, and was hit from the side by San Francisco Cornerback Kermit Alexander. Sayers was carried off the field with three ruptured ligaments and a torn cartilage in his right...