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...A.F.L.'s "weak defenses" and "basketball scores," the facts do not bear them out. So far this season, an average of 41 points has been scored in each A.F.L. game; N.F.L. teams have scored an average of 45. The top punter in pro football (at 46.9 yds. per punt) is Gary Collins of the N.F.L.'s Cleveland Browns; the next two are American Leaguers. True, the A.F.L. has no runner to match Cleveland's Jimmy Brown. But the American League has at least one superstar of its own: San Diego's Lance ("Bambi") Alworth, the most...
...runs back a kickoff 96 yds., rambles 62 yds. with a punt, throws...
...punt return- and the Bears clawed the Packers 31-10. Minnesota was leading Chicago 37-31 with only 2 min. 18 sec left 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...
...moved from offense to defense with the return of platoon football this season. Signal caller for the defensive secondary, he led the Crimson in pass interceptions with five, and handled 16 punt returns. He made several spot appearances as an offensive halfback late in the season when the Crimson suffered a rash of injuries at that post...
...Elis picked up a first down on a Humphrey to Kenney pass but then had to punt, and Harvard began its longest drive of the day. Bobby Leo carried mammoth tackle Bob Greenlee for ten yards and a first down at the Harvard 45. Grant took advantage of a savage block by McCluskey and raced twelve yards off left end for a first down...