Word: halfback
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Captain Bill Kerstetter was selected by the Ivy coaches as the right halfback on the first team. He was joined there by two Crimson juniors, left half Andy Kydes and outside left Charlie Njoku...
...Chicago Bears Halfback Gale Sayers, 22, it all seems kind of humdrum...
...from the Miser. Son of an auto polisher in an Omaha used-car lot, Halfback Sayers set a Big Eight rushing record by gaining 2,675 yds. in three years at the University of Kansas. Chicago Coach George Halas, a notorious miser, wanted him so badly that he laid out $150,000 to sign him for the Bears...
...when Gale gathered in a kickoff on his own 4-yd. line, set sail up the sideline, and simply outran everybody to the goal line. Against the New York Giants last week, Sayers demonstrated the perfect way to run one of pro foot ball's prettiest plays: the halfback option. In the first quarter he started around end, stopped dead in his tracks, and flipped a pass to End Dick Gordon for 65 yds. and an apparent TD. The play was nullified by a penalty, so in the second quarter Sayers tried again-only this time he faked...
Nice, Round Figure. All-America Halfback Mike Garrett, the Heisman Trophy winner from Southern Cal, made it clear what he wanted: "$300,000 is a nice, round figure." Illinois Fullback Jim Grabowski, the No. 1 draft choice of both the N.F.L.'s Green Bay Packers and the A.F.L.'s Miami Dolphins, denied that he was demanding a $500,000 package. "I just don't know," he said innocently, "where these stones get started...