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...team, had first pick. But the Saints opted for age, not promise, and they , traded their No. 1 spot for the Balti more Colts' first-class, second-string Quarterback Gary Cuozzo. Baltimore, which finished a strong second in the N.F.L.'s Eastern division last year, happily grabbed Bubba Smith, Michigan State's mammoth (6 ft. 7 in., 285 Ibs.) defensive end who responds to chants of "Kill Bubba, kill." The hapless New York Giants (1-12-1) were supposed to be No. 2 in line. But the Giants had already traded their position-plus a lot more...
...ENDS: Charles ("Bubba") Smith, 21, Michigan State, 6 ft. 7 in., 283 Ibs., and Alan Page, 21, Notre Dame, 6 ft. 5 in., 238 Ibs. Smith's size alone is enough to earn him raves, but the cheers are muffled by doubts: "He is a mauler. But his trouble is that he 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...
...four" that weighed in at 240 lbs. a man, and an explosive offense that had averaged 404 yds. and 37 points per game. Their opponent this time: Michigan State, ranked No. 2, undefeated in 19 regular-season games, a team that boasted five All-Americas, including Defensive End Charles ("Bubba") Smith, who tips the scales...
Munching hamburgers in an Atlanta Airport restaurant last December, Emory University Senior Remar ("Bubba") Sutton and the school's sophomore class president, Don Brunson, decided in a rush of anger that they were fed up with student protest against U.S. warfare in Viet Nam. They went back to Sutton's dorm, talked all through the night with four other students, by morning had drafted a set of purposes for a new organization-Affirmation: Viet Nam. They dedicated it to demonstrating that "the opinion of the majority cannot be obscured by the voice of the minority...
This success cost its student backers missed classes, slipping grades, weeks of 20-hour-a-day effort centered in a 20-room section of Emory's Wesley Hall dormitory. The brashness of Bubba Sutton, 24-year-old son of a Marietta, Ga., building contractor and former student on the world-circling University of the Seven Seas, provided the main push. He flew to New York to gain the backing of General Lucius Clay, to Los Angeles to get Bob Hope to make part of a television special explaining A.V.N. to Georgia viewers, to Miami to get Singer Anita Bryant...