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There was a time in Paul Scheper's football career when he got the ball a lot. At Granada Hills High School outside Los Angeles, he set a school mark with 53 pass receptions in his senior year, and was All-San Fernando Valley as a halfback. That put him in some pretty hefty company. John Elway, a starter and potential Heisman Trophy winner at Stanford, was the quarterback at Granada Hills when Scheper was there. Tom Ramsey and Dave Laufenberg, quarterbacks at rival high schools, now practice their specialties at UCLA and Indiana, respectively. When Scheper returns to California...
...Harvard's self-proclaimed number one fan, Gigi has been to every game this season except for William and Mary and she had to work that day or she would have gone. At the games, Gigi almost always sits with halfback Scott McCabe's mother, with whom she has become very good friends. In fact, the whole McCabe family has sort of adopted the newlyweds, having the Schepers to their Westborough home for dinner and weekend stays. "We call them our Massachusetts surrogate family," Gigi says...
Adding to the disorganization in the booters' attack were frequent substitutions and position changes on the field in the second half. In one 20-minute stretch, Keller-Sarmiento subbed back into the game, then played center halfback, left halfback, and left wing...
...penalties--a holding call at the 14 and an illegal pass call after quarterback Ron Cuccia had apparently connected with halfback Scott McCabe for a touch-down--forced the Crimson to punt from the Quaker 34. Reserve punter Steve Flach knubbed the ball perfectly to the four...
After the kickoff, Azelby and Murrer teamed up again on Penn's first play from scrimmage. Quaker halfback Steve Rubin hit the right side of the line, which really meant that he hit Azelby, who knocked the ball loose, squibbing it through a series of falling bodies and into the paws of Murrer, who covered...