Word: butkus
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...another nightcap. Not me. I simply thrust the unpleasant thoughts from my mind and demidoze about great men and greater deeds. I think about Homer Jones, 220 lbs. of black thunderbolt streaking at a rate of 9.3 sec. per 100 yds. down a football field. Or about Dick Butkus, that splendid savage of a middle linebacker, actually biting an opponent's nose during a pileup. Or about four massive linemen in purple shirts named Eller, Page, Larsen and Marshall, holding off the mighty Los Angeles Rams three times from the two-yard line. Or about Running Back Gale Sayers...
...immune to its brutal charms. At a recent game between the Chicago Bears and the Detroit Lions, a sweet young thing was explaining to her father about some charitable enterprise on which her sorority at a local college had embarked. Suddenly, on the field, Bear Linebacker Dick Butkus very nearly decapitated a Lion runner. Out went charity. "Attaway, Dick!" shrieked Sweet Young Thing. "Attababy. Kill the sonofabitch." There is, in short, a bit of the beast in all true football fans...
...Babich, Miami (Ohio), 6 ft. 2 in., 225 Ibs. Pritchard is "a great hitter who can crunch the wide play" and has the speed to stick with a receiver coming out of the backfield. One scout ranks him with top Pro Linebackers Tommy Nobis and Dick Butkus. The only difference "is that Pritchard is one inch shorter." Enyart, who also rates high as an offensive fullback, is "a hardnosed kid who can make those snap judgments that give him a jump on the play." Known for his bone-jarring tackles, he lives up to his nickname: "Earthquake." Babich...
...playing out their options: the common draft and a no-poaching rule will eliminate huge bonuses and salaries. "There's a good chance that action will be taken in the courts," says Chicago Attorney Arthur Morse, who negotiated big bonus contracts for Chicago Bears Linebacker Dick Butkus ($100,000) and Green Bay Packers Fullback Jim Grabowski ($250,000). Players might claim that the league was limiting their right to choose the place and price of their employment. To head off such an action, league officials are lobbying for legislation that would exempt pro football from federal antitrust laws...
...Willard is the third leading ground gainer in the N.F.L. Tucker Frederickson, a 220-lb. fullback from Auburn, is the man who makes the New York Giants go, and Bob ("Bullet") Hayes represents the only real threat in the Dallas Cowboys' offense. Sayers' teammate Dick Butkus is the main bulwark in a brutal Chicago Bears defense that has allowed just 73 points in its last five games. But Willard, Hayes, Frederickson and Butkus are believable, at least...