A knock on Thorson
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I feel like this ball doesn't have enough spin on it. Look at it. It's staying still. There's no rotation.
Well played!
There is no knock on this kid! He will be the best QB that Northwestern has ever had,including Steve Schnur! The key is coaching! You can't let this kid get hurt like the Ohio State QB last year who got sandwiched in the Michigan game. Heck,I don't want want Alviti or Thorsen to take any hits. Learn to slide! Colter got clobbered on the QB run and are season was done! Slide and learn to live another day! Do that,and we will have four nine win seasons with those two back there.
He sure did. From Wikipedia:
Graham's first game for the Northwestern Wildcats football team was on October 4, 1941, when he caught a Kansas Statepunt and returned it 90 yards for a touchdown. He ran and passed for two more touchdowns in the 51–3 victory.[6][8] After scoring another pair of touchdowns in a win against Wisconsin, Graham passed to his wide receivers for two touchdowns in a victory over Ohio State, coached by Paul Brown, the team's only loss of the 1941 season.[6][9] Northwestern ended the year with an 11th-place showing in the AP Poll of the best college teams in the country.
From the 2014 NU football yearbook, page 110 on Otto:
"Nicknamed 'Automatic Otto' for his precision passing, Graham broke every existing Big 10 passing record during his tenure (1941-1943). Graham will forever be synonymous with triple threat football - rushing, passing and kicking. He was named Northwestern's greatest football player ever in the Big 10 75th anniversary year."
People don't realize what a great athlete Otto was. He was an All American not just in football, but also in Basketball. He also played baseball at NU.
The modern concept of the quarterback -- taking the snap directly from center, then dropping back either to pass or hand off -- was introduced in the T-formation, and that's the position Graham played with the Browns. I don't know precisely what offense NU ran with Otto Graham, but in older formations like the single wing, the center could snap the ball directly to any of a number of backs, who would then run or pass (or toss, or kick, etc.). Graham was the tailback for NU, the player who lined up deepest in the backfield. So while he was indeed a skilled runner, passer, and kicker, he didn't do those things from the quarterback position.
I feel like this ball doesn't have enough spin on it. Look at it. It's staying still. There's no rotation.
Worse than that.I feel like this ball doesn't have enough spin on it. Look at it. It's staying still. There's no rotation.
He's standing on one leg. You cannot play QB on one leg, even if your name is Thor-son.
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