Word: quarterbacking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Changing Lead. Texas turned the game into an instant replay of its 15-14 victory over Arkansas. With Texas trailing the No. 2-ranked Razorbacks 14-8, Coach Darrell Royal called for a long pass on a fourth-down-and-three situation. Quarterback James ("Slick") Street lofted a beautiful 44-yd. completion to End Randy Peschel, and Texas scored moments later to take the lead. Then Defensive Back Tom Campbell picked off a Razorback pass to give Texas the game, a Cotton Bowl bid and the national championship...
Last week, Notre Dame jumped to a 10-0 lead in the second quarter when Quarterback Joe Theismann flung a 54-yd. bomb to Receiver Tom Gatewood. A grating battle followed. The Texas ground attack, which led the nation during the season with an average of 363 yds. per game, was pitted against the Irish front wall, which had allowed only 85.1 yds. per game. Behind Fullback Steve Worster, the Longhorns ground out two touchdowns on the glutinous turf to take a fourth-quarter lead. Then Theismann shot a 24-yd. touchdown pass to Halfback Jim Yoder...
...spectator sportsmen, TIME'S team is chosen by the men who must back their choices with cash: the professional scouts. How have they done over the years? Superlatively, for the most part. Last year the scouts chose University of Cincinnati's Greg Cook as their top college quarterback; with the professional Cincinnati Bengals this year, Cook is the American Football League's leading passer. Yet the scouts can be fallible too. One fellow who was somehow overlooked last year was Yale's Calvin Hill-the Dallas Cowboys' running sensation this year. In presenting the choices...
...National and American League football teams will sit down to draft this year's college seniors into the ranks of the pros. At that point, the most important man on every coach's staff will be his chief scout. How really valuable is that scrambling, rollout quarterback who has been dazzling college fans all fall and has the press clippings to prove it? Can that light little scatback or that skinny, glue-fingered end stand up against the agile brutes of the big leagues? Who are the sleepers, the unsung stars from little-known schools who will grab...
...OFFENSE QUARTERBACKS: MIKE PHIPPS, Purdue, 6 ft. 3 in., 207 lbs. "Phipps has all the qualifications of a topflight quarterback," says one scout. "He has a great arm, plenty of poise and is a born leader." Phipps' brilliant three-year record includes 375 completions for 5,432 yds. and 37 touchdowns; he threw only 34 interceptions. The pros like his ability to drop quickly into the pocket and stay there; they rarely go for scramblers, although, says one observer, "he runs well enough to be an effective rollout passer, too." They also like Phipps' size and strength...