The '63 Steelers (53 page)

14
. Ibid.

15
. Jack Sell, “Steelers Hire Buddy Parker for 5 Years,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, Aug. 28, 1957.

16
. Art Rooney Jr.,
Ruanaidh: The Story of Art Rooney and His Clan
(n.p.: Author, 2008), 172.

17
. Johnny Sample with Fred J. Hamilton and Sonny Schwartz,
Confessions of a Dirty Ballplayer
(New York: Dial Press, 1970), 104–5; Rooney,
Ruanaidh
, 183.

18
. Bobby Layne on “The Detroit Lions vs. the Cleveland Browns,”
The Way It Was
, April 1, 1976; Dick Haley, conversation, May 14, 2008.

19
. Sample with Hamilton and Schwartz,
Confessions of a Dirty Ballplayer
, 104–5.

20
. Art Rooney Jr., conversation, April 29, 2010.

21
. Preston Carpenter, conversation, Sept. 8, 2007.

22
. Rooney,
Ruanaidh
, 167.

23
. “Negro Gridders Won't Boycott Charity Event,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, Aug. 10, 1961.

24
. “Steeler-Colt Game Skirts Racial Block,”
Pittsburgh Press
, Aug. 10, 1961.

25
. “Card Passing Whiz Misses Steeler Fray,”
Pittsburgh Press
, Aug. 26, 1961.

26
. Francis Stann, “What's Wrong with the Washington Redskins?,”
Sport
, Aug. 1961, 47.

27
. UPI, “Redskins, Udall End Discrimination Feud,”
Pittsburgh Press
, Aug. 15, 1961.

28
. Sample with Hamilton and Schwartz,
Confessions of a Dirty Ballplayer
, 102.

29
. 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), 172.

30
. George Tarasovic, conversation, Nov. 28, 2007.

31
. Pat Livingston, “Bob Ferguson May Start at Fullback,”
Pittsburgh Press
, Oct. 4, 1963.

32
. Jimmy Miller, “Tarasovich Tracy Cut by Steelers,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, Nov. 7, 1963.

33
.
Lou Cordileone, conversation, Aug. 13, 2008.

34
. Lou Cordileone, conversation, April 20, 2010.

35
. Preston Carpenter, conversation, Sept. 8, 2007.

36
. Dan Rooney,
Dan Rooney: My 75 Years with the Pittsburgh Steelers and the NFL
, as told to Andrew E. Masich and David F. Halaas (Cambridge, Mass.: Da Capo Press, 2007), 83.

37
. Ibid.; Art Rooney Jr., conversation, April 29, 2010.

38
. Rooney,
Dan Rooney
, 119.

39
. Frank, “He Dies for Detroit,” 109.

40
. Pat Livingston, “The Longer Season,”
Pittsburgh Press
, Oct. 23, 1963; Clendon Thomas, conversation, Aug. 30, 2008.

41
. Art Rooney Jr., conversation, April 29, 2010.

42
. Devine and Latshaw, “The Man Who Stirred up the Lions,” 81; Rooney,
Ruanaidh
, 128.

43
. Andy Russell, conversation, Oct. 4, 2007.

44
. Preston Carpenter, conversation, Sept. 8, 2007; Murray Tucker,
Screamer: The Forgotten Voice of the Pittsburgh Steelers
(Lincoln, Neb.: iUniverse, 2007), 132.

45
. Red Mack, conversation, Aug. 8, 2007.

46
. Andy Russell, conversation, Oct. 4, 2007.

47
. Jim Bradshaw, conversation, Dec. 10, 2007.

48
. Robert Riger,
Best Plays of the Year 1962: A Documentary of Pro Football in the
National Football League
(Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1963), 37.

49
. Ibid.

50
. Bill Wise,
1963 Official Pro Football Almana
c (Greenwich, Conn.: Fawcett, 1963), 99.

51
. Clendon Thomas, conversation, Aug. 30, 2008.

52
. AP, “Sherman Says Giants Played Their Top Tilt,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, Oct. 30, 1963.

53
. Al Abrams, “Steelers—‘Alley Cats,'”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, Nov. 1, 1963.

54
. “City's Future Painted in Glowing Colors,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, Oct. 29, 1963.

55
. Andrew Bernhard, “Growth of Cities Is World Problem,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, Oct. 28, 1963.

56
. “Meet Challenge of Growth, Papers Told,”
Pittsburgh Press
, Sept. 23, 1963.

57
. “Voters Can Force Reform; Why Wait for Grand Jury?,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, Oct. 30, 1963.

58
. Sherley Uhl, “Firemen, Teamsters Tangle,”
Pittsburgh Press
, Nov. 2, 1963.

59
. Brute Kramer, “Football Has Strong Hold on Fans,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, Oct. 30, 1963.

60
. Jack Sell, “Long Bomb by Steelers Could Upset Green Bay,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, Oct. 31, 1963.

61
. Wise,
1963 Pro Football Almanac
, 19; Vince Lombardi with W.C. Heinz,
Run to Daylight!
(Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1963), [PG]; “After Tough Rookie Year, Ferguson Eyes Grid Comeback,”
Pittsburgh Courier
, Aug. 3, 1963.

62
. Lee Remmel, “Pack ‘a Little Flat' in Victory, Vince,”
Green Bay Press-Gazette
, Nov. 4, 1963.

63
. Pat Livingston, “Parker Tries to Relax Steelers,”
Pittsburgh Press
, Nov. 5, 1963.

64
.
Ibid.

65
. Remmel, “Pack ‘a Little Flat.'”

66
. Lee Remmel, “‘I'm Getting My Legs under Me,' Happy Taylor Concedes,”
Green Bay Press-Gazette
, Nov. 4, 1963.

67
. Al Abrams, “Close for One Half,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, Nov. 4, 1963.

68
. Don Schiffer,
Pro Football 1963
(New York: Pocket Books, 1963), 46.

69
. Remmel, “‘I'm Getting My Legs under Me.'”

70
. Jack Sell, “Fifteen Irish Backs,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, Nov. 5, 1963.

71
. Remmel, “Pack ‘a Little Flat.'”

72
. Al Abrams, “Run to Oblivion,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, Nov. 4, 1963.

73
. Remmel, “Pack ‘a Little Flat.'”

74
. Remmel, “‘I'm Getting My Legs under Me.'”

75
. Remmel, “Pack ‘a Little Flat.'”

76
. Pat Livingston, “Steelers Find Taylor Crawls—All over You,”
Pittsburgh Press
, Nov. 4, 1963.

77
. Remmel, “Pack ‘a Little Flat.'”

GAME 9

1
. UPI, “How Do Bears Do It?,”
Chicago Sun-Times
, Nov. 7, 1963.

2
. Steve Snider, “Pro-Football Has Become a Craze,”
Chicago-Sun Times
, Nov. 3, 1963.

3
. “Can Steelers' Line Finally Chain Brown?,”
Pittsburgh Courier
, Nov. 9, 1963.

4
. Pat Livingston, “Steelers May Reactivate Womack,”
Pittsburgh Press
, Nov. 7, 1963.

5
. Snider, “Pro-Football Has Become a Craze.”

6
. Pat Livingston,
Pittsburgh Press
, Oct. 10, 1963.

7
. “Steelers Discover Why Huff Piled On,”
Pittsburgh Press
, Nov. 4, 1963.

8
. Sam Huff, conversation, July 9, 2008.

9
. Dick Haley, conversation, May 14, 2008.

10
. Myron Cope, “Kiss the Guy or Tackle Him?,”
Saturday Evening Post
, Oct. 26, 1963, 77; Jack Sell, “JHJ Makes a Suggestion,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, Sept. 26, 1963.

11
. Jimmy Brown with Myron Cope,
Off My Chest
(Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1964), 186; Sam Huff and Leonard Shapiro,
Tough Stuff: The Man in the Middl
e (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988), 143.

12
. Jim Murray,
Los Angeles Times
, Feb. 1, 1970, from microfiche (headline illegible).

13
. Ron Borges, “John Henry Was a Hard-Driving Man,”
Game Day
, pro football program, 1983 (full date illegible).

14
. Myron Cope, “Kiss the Guy or Tackle Him?,” 77.

15
. AP, “Wolfner, Cards, Hits 49er Eleven,”
New York Times
, Oct. 14, 1955.

16
. Ibid.

17
. Ray Didinger,
Pittsburgh Steelers
(New York: Macmillan, 1974), 18.

18
. Cope, “Kiss the Guy or Tackle Him?,” 75.

19
. Didinger,
Pittsburgh Steelers
, 21.

20
. Louis Effrat, “Bears Win Western Title by Besting Lions in Rough Football Game,”
New York Times
, Dec. 17, 1956.

21
.
AP, “Parker Threatens to Quit as Pro Football Coach,” Dec. 18, 1956.

22
. Red Mack, interview, Oct. 11, 2008.

23
. AP, “Lions Extended as They Defeat Packers in Rough Game, 21 to 17,”
New York Times
, Nov. 22, 1954.

24
. AP, “Texas Defeats Oklahoma, 34–14, as Fans Fight and Pop Bottles Fly,”
New York Times
, Oct. 12, 1947.

25
. Otto Graham, “Football Is Getting Too Vicious,”
Sports Illustrated
, Oct. 11, 1954, 26, 50–52.

26
. Tex Maule, “Giants Killer,”
Sports Illustrated
, Nov. 24, 1958, 44.

27
. Sam Huff, conversation, July 9, 2008.

28
. Chris Tomasson, “John Henry Got Better with Age,”
Canton Repository
, Oct. 6, 1986.

29
. Borges, “John Henry Was a Hard-Driving Man.”

30
. Red Mack, interview, Oct. 11, 2008.

31
. AP, “Taylor Claims Huff Was Piling On, Had ‘Words' with Pro Rival,”
Youngstown Vindicator
, Jan. 29, 1963.

32
. Norman Miller, “Violent World Crashes on Gridder,”
Youngstown Vindicator
, Jan. 29, 1963.

33
. Hal Lebovitz, “Jimmy Brown Picks His Five Greatest Games,”
Sport
, Dec. 1964, 78.

34
. Jack Sell, “Rudy or Bobby for the Steelers?,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, Nov. 7, 1961.

35
. Gordon Cobbledick, “Suspensions without Pay Would Curb Brutality of Football's Hatchet Men,”
Cleveland Plain Dealer
, Nov. 24, 1963.

36
. Cope, “Kiss the Guy or Tackle Him?,” 77.

37
. Tomasson, “John Henry Got Better with Age.” Bryan W. Winfrey, Arizona State University Athletic Department, from a Tempe (AZ)
Daily News
article, 1980 (Winfrey constructed a bio for the department from assorted clips).

38
. Cope, “Kiss the Guy or Tackle Him?,” 77.

39
. AP, “Johnson, Back after Ban, Leads Lions' 23–17 Victory over Rams,”
New York Times
, Nov. 16, 1959.

40
. UPI, “Lions Fullback Suspended,”
New York Times
, Nov. 3, 1959.

41
. AP, “Johnson, Back after Ban.”

42
. Brown with Cope,
Off My Chest
, 162–63, 165.

43
. Steve Snider, “Pro Football Has Become a Craze,”
Chicago-Sun Times
, Nov. 3, 1963.

44
. Brown with Cope,
Off My Chest
, 163.

45
. “Citizens Committee Planned for Solving Problem,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, Nov. 7, 1963.

46
. Cope, “Kiss the Guy or Tackle Him?,” 77.

47
. Jack Olsen, “In the Back of the Bus,”
Sports Illustrated
, July 22, 1968, 30.

48
. Pat Livingston, “Brown Unloaded Long ‘Bomb' and Hoped Mack Would Nab It,”
Pittsburgh Press
, Oct. 28, 1963.

49
. Jack Sell, “Hoak to Be Honored by Jeanette Fans, among 54,490 Expected,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, Nov. 5, 1963.

50
. Jack Sell, “Stautner, Thomas Uncertain for Browns Tilt,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, Nov. 8, 1963.

51
. Lou Cordileone, conversation, Aug. 13, 2008.

52
. Brown with Cope,
Off My Chest
, 194.

53
.
Cope, “Kiss the Guy or Tackle Him?,” 76.

54
. Lou Cordileone, conversation, Aug. 13, 2008.

55
. Brown with Cope,
Off My Chest
, 43; Clair Young, “The Raging Moods of John Henry Johnson,”
Pro Sports
, Jan. 1966, 9.

56
. “Ballman Took Risk on 92-Yard Run,”
Pittsburgh Press
, Nov. 18, 1963.

57
. Brown with Cope,
Off My Chest
, 191.

58
. “Benny Plays Seriously—for Laughs,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, Nov. 4, 1963.

59
. Pat Livingston, “Parker Tries to Relax Steelers,”
Pittsburgh Press
, Nov. 5, 1963.

60
. Ibid.

61
. Pat Livingston, “Steelers May Reactivate Womack,”
Pittsburgh Press
, Nov. 7, 1963.

62
. Pat Livingston, “Steelers Must Adjust Defense for Brown(s),”
Pittsburgh Press
, Nov. 6, 1963.

63
. Ibid.

64
. Brady Keys, conversation, Sept. 4, 2007.

65
. Pat Livingston, “Warfield to Get Treatment,”
Pittsburgh Press
, Oct. 6, 1966.

66
.
Pittsburgh Press
, Sept. 1, 1962.