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...couldn't do without the representatives of our little group. There was John Dockery, Harvard '66, who plays position R2 on the kickoff team, a compassionate former Red Sox who studies city planning at Columbia when most footballers would be celebrating their victories--how different from the passionless fullback from Yale who Super Bowled for those tired titans of old football, the Packers. And Babe Parilli, the ageless place-kick holder and former Boston Patriot quarterback whose sensitive hands can now spot a ball (and spin the laces to the front!) three-eights of a second faster than anyone else...
...tend Ohio State with the offer of being allowed to play both sports. In the Rose Bowl, his ball handling was superb. Play after play, his fakes fooled NBC television cameramen so badly that they lost the action entirely. A 69-yd. Ohio State drive ended with Fullback Jim Otis scoring from the one; a 50-yd. drive to the Trojan 10 enabled Kicker Jim Roman to make good on a 26-yd. field goal with three seconds left and tie the score at halftime...
...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 is an equally deadly tackier, but with an extra shot of adrenaline. He may be the fleetest...
Brown's defense is their forte. Besides goalies McGinniss and Burns, Brown boasts junior defensemen Curt Bennett and Steve Wormith. Bennett is a big (6'2"), high-scoring defenseman who was second team All-Ivy as a sophomore. Wormith, a fullback on the Bruin football team, is an excellent body checker...
Simpson, Keyes, and Hanratty are also on the UPI All-America team, which was chosen Monday. Bill Enyurt of Oregon State fills out the starting backfield at fullback...