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...touchdown and scoring the second on a spectacular catch. Sullivan dropped a bomb on the Dartmouth five yard line in the final seconds, however, and the Big Green Indians broke a 13-13 tie with a 46 yard field goal on the last play of the game. Dartmouth's kicker, Jim Perry, who was to repeat his last-second heroics a week later against Yale, told The Record American after the game...
Miami has Place Kicker Garo Yepremian, the highest scorer in the N.F.L. Dallas has Tom Landry, aloof, cerebral, technical. Miami has Don Shula, driving, hard-nosed, elemental...
...pass. Verna's goal is to place the viewer on the 50-yd. line and then, through the cameras, let his eyes roam as they might if he were actually in the stadium. When a field-goal attempt is imminent, for example, the scene cuts to the kicker warming up on the sidelines. When there is a break in the action, one camera or another takes a lingering look at the inevitable pretty blonde cheerleader...
...football game until he was 22. Now 27, Yepremian felt more than the usual sense of rivalry going into the Kansas City game. Though he led the league in scoring with 117 points, he was bypassed for the A.F.C.'s all-pro team in favor of Kansas City Kicker Jan Stenerud, a former ski-jumping champion from Fetsund, Norway. Eager to show up his rival, the balding Yepremian got his chance after the hard-charging Dolphins blocked a 42-yd. Stenerud attempt in the overtime period. Then, when Dolphin Running Back Larry Csonka rambled around right...
...Says one scout: "He has blinding speed and something better-intelligence. He's just plain football smart." SPECIALISTS. Mary Bateman, Utah, 6 ft. 3 in., 220 Ibs. College football's leading punter (average: 48 yds.) is certain to be snapped up by a team that needs a kicker who "punts the ball out of sight." Bateman is also an accurate long distance place kicker, as is Chester Marcol, Hillsdale College, 6 ft. 1 in., 190 Ibs., who booted a record-breaking 62-yd. field goal as a sophomore...