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...through the '20s and '30s and even the '40s-when Notre Dame's Lujack was pitching to Leon Hart and Princeton's Dick Kazmaier was throwing strikes to Frank McPhee-the pass was a sometime thing. In his biggest year, Quarterback Lujack gained 791 yds. on passes, a figure that Terry Hanratty has already eclipsed this year with five games still to go. "The pass was a necessary evil," explains Whitey Piro, a onetime Iowa coach, now a scout for the pro Buffalo Bills. "You passed only when you were in trouble, when...
...quarterbacks' hands when you snap the ball," he told his centers. Rival coaches ac cused Leahy of teaching "dirty football," of flagrant recruiting violations, of "twisting" the rulebook with his "sucker shifts" and faked injuries. But one thing nobody could argue with: his success. With such stars as Johnny Lujack, George Connor, Johnny Lattner, Leon Hart and Ralph Guglielmi, Leahy won four national championships, ran off a string of 39 games without a loss, retired in 1953 with an overall record of 87 wins, eleven losses, nine ties...
...kick farther than anybody else who booted scuffed old footballs around the sooty playgrounds of Uniontown, Pa. He was the product of poverty and a broken home, a shy, sensitive boy who dreamed of playing halfback for Notre Dame. His heroes were men like Stan Musial and Johnny Lujack, whose special skills at swinging a bat or throwing a ball had rescued them from the steel mills and coal mines of western Pennsylvania...
...other games, the Green Bay Packers toppled the favored Chicago Bears, 31 to 21, the Los Angeles Rams beat the San Francisco 49'ers, 35 to 14, and the Pittsburgh Stealers defeated the Washington Redskins, 26 to 7. In the Packers' victory, two of Johnny Lujack's passes were intercepted and turned into Green Bay touchdowns...
Last week, Doak Walker won the Heisman Trophy, awarded the "player-of-the year," following in the footprints of Johnny Lujack (1947), Glenn Davis (1946) and Doc Blanchard (1945). Said soft-spoken Doak, who does not seem as impressed with himself as everybody else is: "I sure appreciate...