Word: kosar
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Browns finished '84 well, and the following year an amazing event occurred. A brilliant quarterback evaded the draft by his own scholarship (an early graduate) and picked his spot in the N.F.L.: Cleveland. KOSAR WANTS TO COME HOME blared the old-style headline. The city beamed...
...them score. A peripatetic coach named Lou Saban came along then, and before moving on in two years, recruited a monstrous class headed by Quarterback Jim Kelly. He is the current matinee idol of the Buffalo Bills. Saban's successor, Howard Schnellenberger, backed Kelly up with Ohioan Bernie Kosar and Long Islander Testaverde. On the day after New Year's in 1984, Kosar passed a storied Nebraska team silly in the Orange Bowl, and Miami won its first national championship...
Arguments are being waged over which of the triumvirate is the greatest, but none over who is the smartest. Polishing off a double major in three years, Kosar had two seasons of eligibility remaining when he contrived his own N.F.L. draft and installed himself last year as the boy genius of the Cleveland Browns. Considerately, he signaled the game plan to Testaverde, who otherwise might have transferred. Because of all the talented players lately streaming to Miami in search of a professional halfway house, the pro longest in the making has been Testaverde. (He even lingered an extra year...
BROWN (69)--Katie Curits 1-1-3; Michelle Smith 9-5-23; Donna Yaffe 1-11-27; Christine Arbor 0-0-0; Carol Kosar 2-0-4; Christa Champion 4-0-8; Kerry Kelley 2-0-4; Totals...
Miami's standout quarterback Bernie Kosar, only a sophomore, has already taken a liking to the number 20. Harvard's Brian White is a 7 fancier, but once wore number...