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...stand a much better chance than they have in past years of making it in the big time. In football, for instance, only John Dockery, who can flash a Superbowl championship ring from his days with the New York Jets, has been successful in recent years with the NFL...
...Crone pro-ball saga began February 4, 1973, when the St. Louis Cardinals of the NFL drafted the ex-Harvard quarterback in the 17th round. Crone stayed with the team, until September 15. He was the last person cut before the regular season began...
Crone acknowledges that it is hard for a player from the Ivy League to break into pro football and the NFL in particular. He said that "the Ivy schools just can't offer the training in actual time that the big football schools can. The big schools go for about ll months, and the other months is for weight training, while at Harvard you go for only three months...
When Sports Illustrated listed the coaches for the new franchises, there seemed to be a depressing number of Hall of Famers. Babe Parilli (NFL) would coach the New York Stars. Tom Fears (NFL) was top man for the Southern California Suns. Jack Pardee (NFL) would lead the Washington Ambassadors. Further down on the list of twelve included three others from the NFL, two from the Canadian Football League, and one each from the college ranks. But after the name of Bud Asher, new coach of the Jacksonville Sharks, were these electric, unapologized-for credentials: NEW SMYRNA BEACH HIGH SCHOOL...
...little offensive excitement the new rules have brought to the NFL game is the likelihood of more long punt returns when a team punts from deep in its own territory. More often than not, however, the punting team will have been trapped there by a previous coffin corner kick. Punt, punt, punt...