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Professional football scouts are keen-eyed examiners whose charts detail how far a quarterback can throw, how fast a halfback can run the 40-yd. dash, or how many pounds a lineman can bench-press. The pro scouts' assessments of this year's football players were the basis for this year's college All-America team (see SPORT). In their reports, the scouts often single out talented yet unpublicized college players who go on to stardom in the N.F.L. One of TIME'S 1971 choices, for example, was an obscure University of Michigan guard...
With Carey and Banks on the bench, Fordham dominated the offensive and defensive boards. Six foot-ten inch center Kevin Collins (17 points) combined with Fordham's high scoring forward Kevin Fallon (21 points) to raise Fordham to a 64-58 lead with only 5:02 left...
Three of the starting five were injured in that debacle, frozen to the bench for Radcliffe's last valiant effort against Yale Sunday. Sue Williams aggravated a rib injury in a collision with a Quaker that will put the Cliffe's star shooter out of action for the next three weeks...
...before the Crimson could nail the visitor's coffin shut and bring in the bench to lay fair Wellesley to rest, the suburbanites made their move. Slowly the lead was down to six and then to four. Radcliffe's press was no longer effective and the Crimson began losing out underneath the boards to the stronger Wellesley forwards...
...grabbed the lead three minutes into the action never to be headed again. The visitors were sporting a much tougher defense and their strength off the boards began to dominate play. Radcliffe's rebounding strength began to lag, and both Sue Williams and Cheryl Gelzer were saddled to the bench with four fouls early in the stanza...