Word: halfback
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...huge Negro community. The Shapp campaign treasury paid $250 to a Baptist ministers conference, something like $1,000 apiece to two Baptist ministers who agreed to work for the candidate. Three Negro athletes also received several hundred dollars apiece for posing for promotional pictures: Timmy Brown, a halfback for the Philadelphia Eagles; Wilt ("The Stilt") Chamberlain, a center for the 76ers basketball team; and Ira Davis, an Olympic track star. In his own defense, Shapp testified that the players had volunteered, and that he was surprised when he was asked to pay them...
...Stars were strangers, of course. Donny ("Do Everything") Anderson, a triple-threat halfback from Texas Tech, had signed a $600,000 contract with Green Bay, and Illinois Fullback Jim Grabowski was a $300,000 Packer bonus baby. If anything, that only made it harder on them; the Packers were in no mood to play favorites-particularly with rich rookies who soon would be trying to take their jobs away...
...A.F.L. was having its troubles too. Following the example of baseball's Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale, Oakland's Clem Daniels and Art Powell were demanding identical threeyear, $150,000 contracts. Halfback Paul Lowe, the A.F.L.'s Player of the Year in 1965, still had not signed with the San Diego Chargers. Neither had All-A.F.L. End Earl Faison...
...halfback line will revolve around All-Ivy Andy Kydes, who has moved to the vital center half position. Flanking Kydes will be junior Joe Gould on the right and senior Ken Mallory on the left, both of whom saw some varsity action as halfback reserves last year...
...team's leading hitter is right fielder Ted Nixon. Football quarterback Mickey Beard and halfback Gene Ryzewicz team up at short and second. Both are good hitters and the team's leaders in stolen bases. But the entire team is troubled by stone-fingered fielding; against Holy Cross it gave up seven unearned runs...