Authors: Rudy Dicks
45
. Don Smith,
Coffin Corner
16, no. 6 (1994).
46
.
Norwood,
Real Football
, 106.
47
. Bill Wise,
1963 Official Pro Football Almana
c (Greenwich, Conn.: Fawcett, 1963), 66.
48
. Livingston, “Steeler Plum Turns into Lemm-on.”
49
. Pat Livingston,
Pittsburgh Press
, Sept. 24, 1963.
50
. Pat Livingston, “âPrevent Defense' Defies Football Theory,”
Pittsburgh Press
, Oct. 15, 1963.
51
. Pat Livingston, “The Volatile Mr. Ramsey,”
Pittsburgh Press
, Oct. 14, 1963.
52
. Pat Livingston,
Pittsburgh Press
, Sept. 10, 1963.
53
. Al Abrams,
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, Oct. 15, 1963.
54
. Livingston, “Steeler Plum Turns into Lemm-on.”
55
. Riger,
Best Plays of the Year 1963
, 38.
56
. “Johnson's Stock up as Steelers Stagger,”
Pittsburgh Courier
, Oct. 19, 1963.
57
. Didinger,
Pittsburgh Steelers
, 24.
58
. Livingston, “Steeler Plum Turns into Lemm-on.”
59
. Ibid.
60
. AP, “Browns Batter Giants by 32â24,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
,Oct. 14, 1963.
61
. Riger,
Best Plays of the Year 1963
, 29.
62
. Jimmy Cannon,
Nobody Asked Me, But: The World of Jimmy Cannon
, ed. Jack Cannon and T. Cannon (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1978), 226.
63
. Pat Livingston, “Steelers Find âBuoyancy' in Title Bid,”
Pittsburgh Press
, Oct. 2, 1963.
GAME 6
1
. “Dry Spellâand AutosâMake It Tough on Sam,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, Oct. 17, 1963.
2
. Al Abrams, “Buddy Hasn't Given Up,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, Oct. 15, 1963.
3
. Howard Whitman, “Make Friends with Your Nerves,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, Sept. 9, 1963; Howard Whitman, “You Must Release Inner Tension,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, Sept. 10, 1963.
4
. Al Abrams, “Buddy Hasn't Given Up,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, Oct. 15, 1963.
5
. Pat Livingston, “Redskins Tilt Crossroads for Steelers,”
Pittsburgh Press
, Oct. 17, 1963.
6
. Pat Livingston, “Snead's Passes Pose Threat for Steelers,”
Pittsburgh Press
, Oct. 19, 1963; Pat Livingston, “âPrevent Defense' Defies Football Theory,”
Pittsburgh Press
, Oct. 15, 1963.
7
. UPI, “McPeak Hits Criticism of QB Snead,”
Pittsburgh Press
, Oct. 15, 1963.
8
. Dick Haley, conversation, May 14, 2008.
9
. Ibid.
10
. Ibid.
11
. Joseph M. Sheehan, “Pitt Bows, 29 to 13,”
New York Times
, Oct. 20, 1957.
12
. Michael Strauss, “Gerlick's Field Goal Puts Orangemen on Top, 24â21,”
New York Times
, Nov. 3, 1957 (Strauss reports that the ball was on the Pitt 35-yard line).
13
. Joseph M. Sheehan, “Panthers Rally,”
New York Times
, Oct. 26, 1958.
14
.
Dick Haley, conversation, May 14, 2008.
15
. Jack Sell, “Castoffs Spark Steelers to Upset, 17â13,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, Nov. 6, 1961; Bridget Wentworth,
Newark Star-Ledger
, Jan. 25, 2009.
16
. Pat Livingston, “Wrong Guesses Disturb Haley,”
Pittsburgh Press
, Aug. 21, 1962.
17
. Dick Haley, conversation, July 23, 2010.
18
. Art Rooney Jr., interview, Oct. 4, 2008.
19
. Dick Haley, conversation, May 14, 2008.
20
. Bob Thomas, “Vinton Is Big TimeâEarns $25,000 a Year,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, Oct. 16, 1963.
21
. Vince Johnson, “Racket Raiders Nab 31 Here,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, Oct. 17, 1963.
22
. Al Abrams, “A Teammate of Jim Brown,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, Oct. 16, 1963.
23
. Jack Sell, “Steelers Turn Cards, 19â7, Regain Second,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, Dec. 3, 1962.
24
. Jack Sell, “Steelers Deal Ferguson for Draft Choice,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, Oct. 16, 1963.
25
. Pat Livingston, “Sapp to Take over as Steeler Fullback,”
Pittsburgh Press
, Oct. 16, 1963.
26
. Ibid.; “Big Daddy of the Big Ten,”
Stanley Woodward's Football
, Nov. 1960; Sam Huff and Leonard Shapiro,
Tough Stuff: The Man in the Middle
(New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988), 168.
27
. Jimmy Brown with Myron Cope,
Off My Chest
(Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1964), 195.
28
. Pat Livingston, “Johnson Was Given OK to Pass Up Drills to Help Heal Ankle,”
Pittsburgh Press
, Oct. 21, 1963.
29
. George Barrett,
New York Times
, “The Mirror Is Closed by Hearst Corp.,” Oct. 16, 1963.
30
. “Time of Change for the Nation's Newspapers,”
U.S. News & World Report
, Nov. 4, 1963, 44â45.
31
. “Doghouse Blues! Injured JHJ Slow Healer, Says Parker,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, Oct. 17, 1963.
32
. Al Abrams, “Pros' Lure Intriguing,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, Oct. 17, 1963.
33
. Jimmy Miller, “1,000 Nuns to See Game with Redskins on Sunday,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, Oct. 17, 1963.
34
. Ed Kiely, “A Man Nobody Knows,” Steelers game program, Oct. 29, 1961.
35
. Pat Livingston, “Steelers Dial New TD Strategy,”
Pittsburgh Press
, Oct. 21, 1963.
36
. Pat Livingston, “Snead's Passes Pose Threat for Steelers,”
Pittsburgh Press
, Oct. 19, 1963.
37
. Bill Wise,
1963 Official Pro Football Almana
c (Greenwich, Conn.: Fawcett, 1963), 75.
38
. Jack Walsh, “Redskins Beaten on Two Miscues,”
Washington Post
, Oct. 21, 1963.
39
. William N. Wallace, “Barnes Aims to Step Less Lively,”
New York Times
, Oct. 2, 1963.
40
. Pat Livingston, “Steelers Muffed Chance for 2nd Week in Row,” Oct. 14, 1963.
41
. Pat Livingston, “Johnson Was Given OK,”
Pittsburgh Press
, Oct. 21, 1963.
42
.
Lou Cordileone, conversation, April 30, 2010.
43
. Jimmy Miller, “Steelers Have Special Rooters,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, Oct. 17, 1963.
44
. Livingston, “Johnson Was Given OK.”
45
. Ibid.
46
. “Haley Big âThief,'”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, Oct. 21, 1963.
GAME 7
1
. Roy Blount Jr.,
About Three Bricks Shy of a Load: A Highly Irregular Lowdown on the Year the Pittsburgh Steelers Were Super but Missed the Bowl
(Boston: Little, Brown, 1974), 17.
2
. Art Rooney Jr.,
Ruanaidh: The Story of Art Rooney and His Clan
(n.p.: Author, 2008), 115.
3
. Ibid.
4
. Red Mack, interview, Oct. 11, 2008.
5
. Ibid.
6
. Ibid.
7
. Ibid.
8
. Ibid.
9
. Mervin Hyman, Morton Sharnik, and Herman Weiskopf, “Big Men of the Midwest,”
Sports Illustrated
, Sept. 16, 1960.
10
. “Stanley Woodward's All-Sectional Team for the Midwest,”
Stanley Woodward's Football
, Nov. 1960, 40.
11
. Red Mack, interview, Oct. 11, 2008; Ed Fay, conversation, Sept. 24, 2008.
12
. Red Mack, interview, Oct. 11, 2008.
13
. Red Mack, conversation, Aug. 8, 2007.
14
. Ibid.
15
. Ed Fay, conversation, Sept. 24, 2008.
16
. “Mack Shows Speed in Steeler Scrimmage,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, Aug. 6, 1961.
17
. “Red Mack Starts in Steeler Drills,”
Pittsburgh Press
, Aug. 6, 1961.
18
. “Military Status Steeler Concern,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, July 28, 1961; Tom Landry, “Ex-Steeler Moegele Big Help to Dallas,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, Aug. 22, 1961.
19
. Chester L. Smith, “Rooney U. Hopes Red Mack's Knees Can Stand Strain,”
Pittsburgh Press
, Aug. 10, 1961.
20
. Bobby Layne with Fred Katz, “Pro Football's 11 Meanest Men,”
Sport
, Nov. 1964, 14.
21
. Ed Fay, conversation, Sept. 24, 2008.
22
. Ibid.; Red Mack, interview, Oct. 11, 2008; Ed Fay, conversation, Sept. 24, 2008.
23
. 1962 Steeler press guide.
24
. Red Mack, interview, Oct. 11, 2008.
25
. Jack Sell, “The Two Seasons,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, Oct. 15, 1963.
26
.
Tom Landry, “The Cowboys Figure to Ride a Little Harder This Year,” in
Pro Football The Pros Football '63, 1963
, ed. Herbert M. Furlow (New York: Counterpoint, 1963), 55.
27
. Tex Maule, “A Shuttle Shakes Up the Pros,”
Sports Illustrated
, Nov. 5, 1962, 16.
28
. Don Schiffer,
Pro Football 1963
(New York: Pocket Books, 1963), 32.
29
. “âGod of Heavens' Rites Revived,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, Oct. 23, 1963.
30
. Roger Lane, “Steel Firms Tell of Bright Profits,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, Oct. 24, 1963 (AP).
31
. Lee McInerney, “Berle, Smith Top 2 Bills,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, Oct. 21, 1963.
32
. Mel McKeachie, “Joey Heatherton Finds Pittsburgh âBeautiful,'”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, Oct. 23, 1963.
33
. Jack Sell, “Steelers Made 8-Point Picks,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, Oct. 23, 1963.
34
. Ibid.
35
. Pat Livingston, “Johnson Faces Fight to Regain Fullback Job,”
Pittsburgh Press
, Oct. 24, 1963.
36
. Sell, “Steelers Made 8-Point Picks.”
37
. Pat Livingston, “Johnson Faces Fight to Regain Fullback Job”
38
. “Steeler Foes Prefer Games at Stadium,”
Pittsburgh Press
, Oct. 22, 1963.
39
. Al Abrams, “Good Seating Big Help,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, Dec. 5, 1962.
40
. Lou Cordileone, conversation, April 30, 2010.
41
. Pat Livingston, “Steelers Win Race to Stay in Race,”
Pittsburgh Press
, Oct. 28, 1963.
42
. Al Abrams, “Done Up Red and Brown,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, Oct. 28, 1963.
43
. Bill Wise,
1963 Official Pro Football Almana
c (Greenwich, Conn.: Fawcett, 1963), 38.
44
. Sam Blair, “Cowboys Lose Again,”
Dallas Morning News
, Oct. 28, 1963; Al Abrams, “Cowboys Fight Back,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, Oct. 28, 1963.
45
. Livingston, “Steelers Win Race to Stay in Race.”
46
. Blair, “Cowboys Lose Again”; Livingston, “Steelers Win Race to Stay in Race.”
47
. Red Mack, interview, Oct. 11, 2008.
48
. Al Abrams, “Done Up Red and Brown.”
49
. Ibid.
50
. Pat Livingston, “Brown Unloaded Long âBomb' and Hoped Mack Would Nab It,”
Pittsburgh Press
, Oct. 28, 1963.
51
. Ibid.
52
. Peter Golenbock,
Landry's Boys: An Oral History of a Team and an Era
(Chicago: Triumph Books, 2005), 149.
53
. Livingston, “Steelers Win Race to Stay in Race.”
54
. Abrams, “Done Up Red and Brown.”
55
. Livingston, “Steelers Win Race to Stay in Race.”
56
. UPI, “Giants Pull Browns Down with Crowd,”
Pittsburgh Press
, Oct. 28, 1963.
57
. Livingston, “Brown Unloaded Long âBomb.'”
GAME 8
1
. Tommy Devine, “Parker Keeps It Simple,”
Sports Illustrated
, Nov. 15, 1954, 29.
2
. Tommy Devine and Bob Latshaw, “The Man Who Stirred up the Lions,”
Sport
, Oct. 1954, 82.
3
. Ibid., 80.
4
. Devine, “Parker Keeps It Simple,” 29.
5
. Stanley Frank, “He Dies for Detroit Every Week,”
Saturday Evening Post
, Nov. 13, 1954, 109.
6
. Dick Haley, conversation, May 14, 2008.
7
. Arthur Daley, “Another Abrupt Departure,”
New York Times
, Sept. 8, 1965.
8
. Frank, “He Dies for Detroit,” 109.
9
. “A Pride of Lions,”
Time
, Nov. 29, 1954, 58.
10
. Frank, “He Dies for Detroit,” 109.
11
. Ibid., 112.
12
. AP, “Slashing Centenary Halfback: Centenary Has Edge on Texas,”
Spartanburg (S.C.) Herald Journal
, Oct. 21, 1934.
13
. “Lions on the Loose,”
Newsweek
, Aug. 26, 1957, 90.