[0] SUNDAY'S HIGHLIGHTS : THE HERO EDDIE GEORGE, HOUSTON.The Heisman Trophy Heisman Trophy Annual award given to the outstanding college gridiron football player in the U.S. The trophy was instituted in 1935 by New York City's Downtown Athletic Club and was officially named the following year for the club's first athletic director, the player-coach winner out of Ohio State got off to a slow start in his NFL NFL abbr. National Football League NFL (US) n abbr (= National Football League) → Fußball-Nationalliga debut last week, but he broke free - literally - Sunday. He escaped trouble in his own backfield to produce a 76-yard run that set up an important touchdown in the Oilers' victory over Jacksonville. George, who averaged just 2.4 yards per carry against Kansas City Kansas City, two adjacent cities of the same name, one (1990 pop. 149,767), seat of Wyandotte co., NE Kansas (inc. 1859), the other (1990 pop. 435,146), Clay, Jackson, and Platte counties, NW Mo. (inc. 1850). last week, finished with 143 yards rushing on 17 carries and a touchdown. THE GOAT Vinny Testaverde Vincent Frank Testaverde (born November 13, 1963 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American football quarterback who currently plays for the Carolina Panthers in the National Football League. , Baltimore Thump. The sound of a return to earth. Testaverde was a single-handed slayer of Oakland in the opener, but against Pittsburgh, the Ravens quarterback . . . well, performed as he usually does against Pittsburgh. His first pass was delivered to Steelers cornerback Rod Woodson Roderick Kevin "Rod" Woodson (born March 10, 1965 in Fort Wayne, Indiana) is a former professional American football player. Early life Rod Woodson began playing football as a boy in Fort Wayne, Indiana as a P.A.L Raider . , who returned it 43 yards for a touchdown. A later fumble, also recovered by Woodson, set up another Pittsburgh score. Vinny, 13 of 24 for 159 yards, is 0-7 with 11 interceptions in his career against the Steelers. TOP 5 RUSHERS Player, TeamOpponent Yds. Eddie George
Edward Nathan George, Jr. , Houston Jacksonville 143 Barry Sanders Barry Sanders (born July 16, 1968) is a Hall of Fame and Heisman Trophy winning American football running back who spent his entire professional career with the Detroit Lions of the NFL. , Detroit Tampa Bay 125 Jerome Bettis, Pittsburgh Baltimore 116 Terrell Davis, Denver Seattle 111 Robert Green, Chicago Washington 107 TOP 5 PASSERS Player, Team Opponent Yds. Neil O'Donnell, N.Y. Jets Indianapolis 319 Mark Brunell, Jacksonville Houston 302 Stan Humphries, San Diego Cincinnati 275 Brad Johnson, Minnesota Atlanta 275 Jeff George, Atlanta Minnesota 266 TOP 5 RECEIVERS Player, Team Opponent Yds. Ken Dilger, Indianapolis N.Y. Jets 156 Jake Reed, Minnesota Atlanta 148 Quinn Early, Buffalo New England 119 Bert Emanuel, Atlanta Minnesota 116 Courtney Hawkins, Tampa Bay Detroit 111 NOTEWORTHY Aching already: They all came out of training camp feeling fit, spry An application framework from Adobe for building rich Internet applications using HTML. Spry takes the tedium out of writing AJAX code and also includes routines for creating animation effects and building widgets. For more information, visit http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/spry. and ready for the grind of the season. But the picture of health didn't last very long, as several key players were felled in only the second week of the season. San Francisco quarterback Steve Young pulled up lame on a third-quarter scamper. Diagnosis: strained groin muscle. ``I don't think it's bad,'' Young said. ``I think it'll be fine. This week I'll get it back to normal and I should be fine next week.'' The Niners, who have a bye this week, also lost reserve wide receiver and special-teamer Nate Singleton to a broken left shoulder. Carolina quarterback Kerry Collins sprained his left knee when New Orleans linebacker Winfred Tubbs rolled up his leg. Collins declared it minor: ``I felt something pop in there, but it's just a minor sprain sprain, stretching or wrenching of the ligaments and tendons of a joint, often with rupture of the tissues but without dislocation. Sprains occur most commonly at the ankle, knee, or wrist joints, causing pain, swelling, and difficulty in moving the involved joint. . We've got a bye week and I should be fine.'' Indianapolis running back Marshall Faulk was forced to the sideline by a sprained toe on his right foot. The Colts also lost their best pass-rusher, Tony Bennett, to a sprained knee. Tampa Bay quarterback Trent Dilfer, whose statistics are already on the critical list this season, missed two drives in the second half after injuring his left (non-throwing) forearm. And Pete Kendall, Seattle's first-round draft pick who has been starting at left guard, suffered a knee injury that is expected to cost him 4-5 weeks. First of many? Wide receiver Keyshawn Johnson, the top pick of the draft out of USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. , scored his first pro touchdown, pulling in an 11-yard pass from Neil O'Donnell to account for the New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Jets' only score in a loss to Indianapolis. Johnson, in typically understated fashion, promptly took off his helmet and stomped around the end zone. OFFBEAT off·beat n. Music An unaccented beat in a measure. adj. Slang Not conforming to an ordinary type or pattern; unconventional: offbeat humor. Ziggy's team: The NFL charts its history back to 1922, and until Sunday it had never had a game suspended by weather. When the event finally happened, it only figured to be . . . at a New York Jets TONIGHT Double takes: It will be a confrontation of mirror images when Philadelphia plays at Green Bay (Channel 7, 6 p.m.). Eagles coach Ray Rhodes, a former defensive coordinator at Green Bay under Packers coach Mike Holmgren, comes in with a nearly identical offense, a similar defensive strategy and seven Packers castoffs. Said Packers tight end Keith Jackson: ``You look at them, you go, `Hey, that's our play Hey, that's our play, too CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: No Caption (Steve Young) |
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