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...everything goes well, next fall Joe Azelby, the 110th captain of the Harvard football team, will be trading the red and white Crimson "H" on his helmet for the streamlined red, white, and blue buffalo of the NFL's Buffalo Bills...

Author: By Kevin Carter, | Title: Football Captain Joe Azelby: From the Ivies to the NFL | 5/23/1984 | See Source »

Earlier this month, Azelby attended a minicamp for Bills draft choices in Buffalo, where he underwent the intensive, high-technology evaluation common to all NFL clubs. He'll report back in late June or early July...

Author: By Kevin Carter, | Title: Football Captain Joe Azelby: From the Ivies to the NFL | 5/23/1984 | See Source »

...didn't do that much," Azelby said of the minicamp. "The first 10 days they got us on a lifting plan." Along with the iron pumping came films and lectures on the Buffalo defense. The minicamp ended in three days of scrimmage and practice...

Author: By Kevin Carter, | Title: Football Captain Joe Azelby: From the Ivies to the NFL | 5/23/1984 | See Source »

...signed a contract, the terms of which he chose not to disclose. "They gave me a signing bonus," he said, but he chuckled that his was "substantially less" than the seven-figure package hauled in by Buffalo's, first-round pick...

Author: By Kevin Carter, | Title: Football Captain Joe Azelby: From the Ivies to the NFL | 5/23/1984 | See Source »

...being from Harvard make Azelby a curiosity? "They're kind of interested," said the inside linebacker who took three final exams in Buffalo. "When I tell them we don't have spring football and we don't have scholarships, it blows their minds...

Author: By Kevin Carter, | Title: Football Captain Joe Azelby: From the Ivies to the NFL | 5/23/1984 | See Source »

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