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With Harmon--currently employed by the San Francisco 49ers now dancing through the backfields of the National Football League, senior fullback Tony Baker will finally get a chance to strut his stuff...
...Thompson had to clamber over statuesque 6-ft. 6¾-in. Jürgen Hingsen, the "German Hercules" who holds the decathlon world record. In style and personality the two duelists are a classic study in contrasts. Thompson the Dionysian, Hingsen the Apollonian; the fiery fullback and the shining knight. Thompson, an infectious extravert from a working-class neighborhood of London who blithely chatters away whether or not anyone is listening, treats the field of play as though it were an enormous sandbox. Hingsen performs without wasted motion or emotion, intently striking the perfect form even in his warmups...
...everything he owns to shine like the top of his Chrysler Building. Cooke's team, coached by a bright man named Joe Gibbs, was constructed by boyish Talent Scout Bobby Beathard out of what some say were the pitiful leavings of '70s Coach George Allen, though Theismann, Fullback John Riggins, Place Kicker Mark Moseley, Offensive Tackle George Starke and Defensive Tackle Dave Butz were among the remnants. While Butz is a fine player (weighing over 300 lbs., resembling a 6-ft. 7-in. handball court), his cost to the Redskins in 1975 was two first-round draft choices...
Before he quit in 1965, former Cleveland Browns Fullback Jim Brown, 47, set the alltime National Football League record for yardage gained with a nine-season total of 12,312 yds. But with Pittsburgh Steeler Franco Harris, 33, beyond the 11,000-yd. mark and closing, Brown is seriously considering dusting off his pads. "I'm not in a grave," steams Brown. "I'm active, alive, and I don't like to be talked about like I'm dead." Brown has set a few conditions, however. He wants to play with the Los Angeles Raiders. Harris...
Kenny Stabler hit tight end Hobie Breaner with a 38-yard scoring pass in the opening quarter and fullback Wayne the Wilson drove one yard for a third-quarter score...