Word: stichweh
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Dates: during 1963-1963
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...five. To rub it in, Navy's gold uniforms had "Drive for Five" lettered on the back. Navy was the nation's No. 2 team. Quarterback Roger Staubach was the most talked about player in college football. Army's quarterback was a converted halfback, Rollie Stichweh, and most of the 102,000 fans in Philadelphia Stadium could not even pronounce his name (it rhymes with which...
Then the war began-and for the first three quarters it looked as if the oddsmakers were right again. Army scored the first time it had the ball, Quarterback Stichweh slicing over from the ten after driving his team 65 yds. in eleven plays. But then Navy's Staubach went to work-on the ground, not in the air. Sending Fullback Pat Donnelly ripping through the line, throwing just enough to keep the defense honest, Staubach put together three drives of 47, 80, and 91 yds., capping each with a touchdown by Donnelly. With ten minutes left to play...
Middies. Delicately, deliberately, Quarterback Stichweh dismembered the Navy defense. When Navy beefed up its flanks, he sent Halfback Kenny Wai-drop cracking off tackle for big yardage. When the Middies stacked the middle, Stichweh scampered around end. From the Navy five, Stichweh rolled out to his right and launched himself into the air: six points. He rolled out again, this time to the left: a two-point conversion that made it 21-15; a touchdown would tie, an extra point would win-but first Army had to get the ball. The Cadets gambled on an onside kick: Quarterback Stichweh grabbed...
...Army's greatest enemy was the clock. There were still six minutes left -plenty of time for a team to travel 49 yds. with time-outs and sideline passes to stop the clock. But Army had no time-outs left, and Stichweh was no passer. Steadily, Army marched down the field; relentlessly, the seconds and minutes ticked off. "Touchdown! Touchdown!" Army rooters screamed. "Stop them! Stop them!" pleaded the Navy stands. With a third down on the Navy four and less than one minute on the clock, the Army team could not hear Stichweh's signals. The referee...