Word: pros
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...cellar teams. The team has no great passer, no great receiver, no breakaway back-the standard prerequisite for a successful pro team. Instead, Green Bay uses rugged, old-fashioned blocking to open holes for rugged, old-fashioned ball carriers. To Vince Lombardi, 47, even the complex game of the pros can be reduced to the simple principle of knocking people down. "To play in this league," he says, "you've got to be tough-physically tough and mentally tough...
...time at all, Lombardi realized that the Packers had just the kind of back he was looking for: Paul Hornung, ex-Notre Dame quarterback and former golden boy of college football. Like Lombardi's theories, Hornung went against the trend of the pros. In a league of specialists, Hornung could do nothing supremely: his passing, speed and power were only fair. What Hornung could do was play solid football tough enough to please even Lombardi. "You're my left halfback," Lombardi told Hornung. "The only way you can get out of it is to get killed...
...Myron Pottios, 21, Notre Dame; 6 ft. 2 in., 239 Ibs. Drafted two years ago by Baltimore, Brown is hailed as "big, fast and mean." Pottios is highly rated because he "can play either offense or defense, which makes him a good risk for the pros." The pros are also after Virginia Tech's unsung Mike Zeno, 21 (5 ft. 11 in., 240 Ibs.), but dismiss the chances of Colorado's Joe Romig, who made the first team of the United Press International's All-America. Says one scout: At 5 ft. 10 in., 200 Ibs., "Romig...
Quarterback: Norman Snead, 21, Wake Forest; 6 ft. 4 in., 208 Ibs. Although Snead was snubbed by the wire-service All-Americas, the pros call him "a pure passer" with the advantage of enough height to look over the offensive line. Right behind Snead the scouts rank North Carolina State's Roman Gabriel, 20 (6 ft. 3 in., 215 Ibs.), who is a junior. While the pros admire the all-round ability of Mississippi's Jake Gibbs, the first-stringer on most All-Americas, they generally rate both Snead and Gabriel as better passers for the N.F.L...
...last week with the Heisman Trophy as 1960's outstanding college player, Bellino could make the N.F.L., although some scouts have reservations about his size: "He'd try to block a 250-lb. defensive end and that would be the end of him." In any case, the pros figure that a four-year service stint and a bright future as a big-league baseball catcher will keep Bellino out of football. Ranked right alongside Bellino: Tom Mason, 21, Tulane; 6 ft. 1 in., 195 Ibs. Although U.P.I, and A.P. relegated Mason to their third-team All-America, many...