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...Marine fighter pilot in World War II, a Medal of Honor winner, a two-term Governor of South Dakota. Apart from the fact that his strongest cuss word is "criminy," there is nothing about Joe Foss, 50, to suggest that he is a pushover. Yet that is apparently what the owners of the American Football League figured after they elected him commissioner in 1959. They wheeled and dealed behind his back-maneuvering franchises, swapping players, conducting secret, premature drafts of college prospects...
...Finally Foss cracked down: he invalidated a secret draft, ruled a trade illegal that would have sent a couple of disgruntled San Diego stars, Earl Faison and Ernie Ladd, to Houston. When the owners grumbled, he cut them short. The pop-off," he said, "is no longer fashionable in this league...
...mile relay, Tony Burns and Jim Baker will stay at home, leaving Bob Stempson, Howle Foss, and Chuck Redman to run three of the four legs...
Harvard's winning time in the mile-relay was 3:27.3. Howie Foss, Chuck Redman, Ed. Brown, and Smith gave the Crimson a close win in the two-mile relay. The time...
...since William Tecumseh Sherman wheeled 100,000 Union soldiers south under a May sun 101 years ago have so many Northerners been in such a hurry to get to Atlanta, Ga. Last week the city was under siege from both professional football leagues: A.F.L. Commissioner Joe Foss announced a franchise for an A.F.L. team next year; N.F.L. Commissioner Pete Rozelle, on Peachtree Street at the invitation of Atlanta's Mayor Ivan Allen, talked glowingly about N.F.L. expansion to Atlanta by the fall of 1966. And baseball's Milwaukee Braves made a hopeful lunge. Already destined to play...