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Coaches and rival quarterbacks were viewing Frankie Albert with increasing wonder and alarm. Was he five years ahead of his time, or 50 years behind it? As signal-caller for San Francisco's unbeaten (pro) 49ers, he frequently violates football's ABCs by passing on fourth down, deep inside his own territory, instead of kicking. Because Frankie makes it work, other pro quarterbacks are trying it.* His theory: "As long as you have the ball you can make touchdowns...
...watch, but the management had thoughtfully advertised big half-time shows, with everything from fireworks to a leg show by a $50,000 all-girl band. Two days later, 35,000 paying customers packed San Francisco's Kezar Stadium to see the New York Yankees beat the '49ers...
...York Yankees, Brooklyn Dodgers, Chicago Rockets, Buffalo Bisons, Cleveland Browns, Miami Seahawks, Los Angeles Dons and San Francisco '49ers...
...Brannan's Vigilantes brought a violent kind of order out of the violent chaos. San Franciscans settled down to ordinary, corrupt city politics and a less homicidal good time. Ladies like "Cowboy Maggie" Kelly on the Barbary Coast still provided entertainment in the old style. But '49ers learned to waltz at Lawyer Hall McAllister's wife's cotillions...
...there are any '49ers left in the Pacific this year, they keep it very quietly to themselves...