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...more than just eleven guys trying to get to the ball carrier as quickly as possible. The main job for the players is to hold their areas and disrupt any opponents' moves into their territories. The moves are lateral, along the line of scrimmage, not vertical, into the enemy backfield...
...backfield, junior Will Stargel, an exciting runner, is replacing Bobby Leo at halfback. Stargel is fast and shifty. But he has two problems--he fumbles frequently and he is prone to injuries...
Even so, there were enough crunching blocks and backfield razzle-dazzle to satisfy the fans. The general idea of a draft is for the weakest teams to pick first, thereby spreading the wealth. But the two days of haggling over 445 players produced such a blizzard of trades among the 25 teams that hardly a single player ended up where expected...
...read the Packers' defense. Thanks to Coach Stram, the Chiefs themselves are about as readable as Sanskrit. On offense, they run out of twelve different formations, all of which start out looking like a standard I. And Quarterback Dawson throws from a "movable pocket," shifting around the backfield behind his blockers...
...fails to go all out all the time. Maybe for money he will-but in college he would kill you for three plays, then rest for two." Page's problem, if any, is just the opposite-overeagerness. "He is so quick that he's in the enemy backfield when the ball is snapped...