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Indeed he was. The kind of guy who would run from punt formation on fourth down and 26-and make 35 yds. Who would average 24 points a game for the Yale basketball team. Who would turn out for tennis, win his first two matches, and quit because his game was "not too good." Who would then suit up for baseball and drive in the winning run in his first game. In other words, Frank Merriwell was a kind of fictional Brian Dowling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: The Real Frank | 11/17/1967 | See Source »

...Yale last year because of torn cartilage in his right knee; this season, in addition to the tender knee and bad wrist, he has been playing with a broken nose. None of them have slowed him down much. Against Cornell, he passed for two touchdowns and ran 6 yds. for a third. Against Dartmouth he threw a 69-yd. scoring pass, scampered 30 yds. on a bootleg for a second Yale TD. Last week against Penn, he ran for 35 yds. and completed 13 out of 19 passes for 141 yds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: The Real Frank | 11/17/1967 | See Source »

...hung birdie putts on the lip of the cup; on the 15th, he blew an easy 41-footer and took a bogey. But he birdied the llth, and 13th and the 14th, and on the 495 yd., par-five 17th, he collected his second eagle-covering those 495 yds. with a drive, a No. 4 iron and a 12-ft. putt. With a par on the 18th, Jack was finished. His score: 33 on the front nine, 29 on the back, a total of 62 for a nine-under-par round. Sighed his playing partner, Bob Goalby, who shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Golf: A Different Game | 11/10/1967 | See Source »

...Paull, a runner, and John Huntley, a passer. No one yet has found a way to stop either of them. Operating from a pro-type multiple offense, the Yellow Jackets have humiliated seven straight opponents by an average score of 60-5, running up an average of 488 yds. per game-more than any other college team in the U.S., big or small...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: A Lot from the Leftovers | 11/10/1967 | See Source »

...Waynesburg is irresistible, Westminster is immovable: the Titans have held six opponents to an average of 98.8 yds. a game; their wild, gambling defense is calculated to confuse. "We use a split-six, a four-three, and a variation of the Notre Dame four-four," says Defensive Coach Ralph Bauch. "We stunt in the line, and we do a lot of blitzing to put pressure on the quarterback. We're set up to blitz any hole, and we sometimes shoot in a deep back as well as a linebacker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: A Lot from the Leftovers | 11/10/1967 | See Source »

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