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...feature bout will be between last year's interhouse heavyweight champion Rick Rice and rugby-playing contender Buzz Miller. Rice, the odds-on favorite, disposed of Paul Gussi Monday afternoon while Miller eliminated football halfback Hobie Armstrong...
Pont, who will be Yale's 20th head coach since 1872, signed a three-year contract for an undisclosed sum of money and was given complete freedom in his choice of assistants. The former halfback played his own football at Miami where he still holds seven scoring records...
...bookmakers, who bet no sentiments, chose the Packers by 6½ points, and that was just about right. The Packers' aces-Fullback Jim Taylor, Halfback Paul Hornung, Quarterback Bart Starr-might be weary, but they were part of a team, a disciplined professional team that plays with precision and remembers Coach Vince Lombardi's admonitions: "Wear them down. Punish them. Intimidate them." Only twice in the first half did the vaunted Giant offense penetrate Packer territory. The lone Giant touchdown was scored by the defensive team, on a blocked punt. Tittle complained about the cold: "My hands were...
...N.F.L. The biggest money fights are still to come -over college stars who are playing in post season bowl games, cannot sign binding pro contracts until after the holidays. The top prizes on the auction block are Mississippi Tackle Jim Dunaway, Alabama Center Lee Roy Jordan and Louisiana State Halfback Jerry Stovall, all first-stringers on TIME'S pro-picked All-America, and all No. 1 draft choices. "For those three." says an A.F.L. official, ''the moon's the limit...
...each man on the Packer squad; this year the winner's share will probably hit $7,000. The Packers get free life insurance (minimum policy: $10.000) and a free medical plan that pays 80 of their families' ordinary doctors' bills, more in emergencies. Defensive Halfback Jesse Whittenton owns the King's (X). a supper club in Green Bay: End Gary Knafelc is vice president of a school supply company, and Bart Starr manages a downtown business building. Paul Hornung, who draws $25,000 in salary, makes another $25,000 or so each year modeling sports clothes...