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...that Billy Cannon, L.S.U.'s much-publicized All-America halfback was just about the best ball carrier around. Their other favorite runner, though, was a surprising star from a lesser-known school: Dick Bass of College of the Pacific. Both players fulfilled their promise by running off with all-pro honors. This year, as in the past, the scouts' choices include a number of Saturday's heroes chosen for All-America honors, as well as a few small college unknowns who figure to be pro superstars. The 1972 pick of the field...
...running back, which may see a dozen N.F.L. players gaining more than 1,000 yds., Miami has three of the best: Larry Csonka and Jim Kiick (known as "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid") run through and over opposing lines like wounded rhinos, helped by blocking from all-pro Guard Larry Little; stocky Mercury Morris (5 ft. 10 in., 190 lbs.) runs around them. When their runners are stopped, or their passes fall incomplete, the Dolphins figure to get points from the talented instep of another new Miami folk hero: soccer-style Place Kicker Garo Yepremian, an off-season...
...played in the same league that produced All-Pro Dick Butkus, and we played rough and hard. Fundamentals were our watchword; no fancy suburban passing, no exotic option plays, just a hard-nosed ass-kicking running game between the tackles. We played ghetto schools and working-class white schools where the kids still grassed their hair. Our furthers were painters and policemen, and most of us thought of college merely as four more years of football. "I'm lower middle-class just like you are," Coach Hegener would scream at us. "I could make more money coaching in the suburbs...
...from Cyprus who never even saw a pro football game until he was 22. Now 27, Yepremian felt more than the usual sense of rivalry going into the Kansas City game. Though he led the league in scoring with 117 points, he was bypassed for the A.F.C.'s all-pro team in favor of Kansas City Kicker Jan Stenerud, a former ski-jumping champion from Fetsund, Norway. Eager to show up his rival, the balding Yepremian got his chance after the hard-charging Dolphins blocked a 42-yd. Stenerud attempt in the overtime period. Then, when Dolphin Running Back...
...guard at the camp, Wichard spent much of his time shagging footballs booted by Giant Place Kicker Pete Gogolak. Soon people were asking about the kid in the blue uniform who was throwing the ball back farther than Gogolak was kicking it. Backfield Coach Y.A. Tittle, the former Giant All-Pro quarterback, decided to find out. After watching Wichard wing a few 60-yd. passes to Giant receivers, Tittle concluded: "That may be the best arm I've ever seen...