Word: finest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week to draft college stars for next year's rosters, the pro teams were ruled by their own particular manpower requirements, ended up picking some players far down on everyone's lists. But, with surprising unanimity, the pro scouts this year agree on the nation's finest college players. The pros' All-America...
...Houston, 21, Ohio State; 6 ft. 2 in., 216 lbs. Major: education and physical education. Excerpts from pro scouting reports: "Can make it with the pros as offensive or defensive end. Pound for pound, he may be the finest college football player in the country today...
Griffith provides some skillful comic relief as a sheik who is crazy over horses. But what matters most and comes off best in the picture is the great scenes of spectacle, particularly the chariot race, a superbly handled crescendo of violence that ranks as one of the finest action sequences ever shot. All by itself it would be worth the price of admission...
...clusters of points. Last year's champion Baltimore Colts can field a covey of stars led by young (26) Johnny Unitas, a onetime reject from the Pittsburgh Steelers who is rated the best quarterback in football, throws touchdown passes from the shelter of the league's finest offensive tackle, mammoth (6 ft. 3 in., 275 Ibs.) Jim Parker, 25. If a man does get by him, Parker contritely reassures Unitas in the huddle: "Johnny, it won't happen again." The Colts also boast End Raymond Berry, who is slow and small...
...Consol No. 9, back in Farmington, W. Va., a monster engine pulls loads of coal out of the mine, and still has enough power left over to do half a dozen other jobs. Nickname of the engine: the Sam Huff Special. "By jingo," says the proud father of the finest linebacker in the world, "it pulls an awful load...