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team - let alone achieve star status in his freshman year. Exceptions are the rule this year. San Francisco's Ken 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...
...CORNERBACKS: Nick Rassas, 21, Notre Dame, 6 ft., 185 lbs., and Ben Hawkins, 21, Arizona State, 6 ft. 1 in., 176 lbs. Playing strictly on defense, Rassas was Notre Dame's top ground gainer-running back six interceptions for 197 yds., returning 19 punts for 435 yds. A two-way player who averaged 50 min. of action per game, Hawkins runs the 100-yd. dash in 9.7 sec. Naturally, that impresses the pros. So does his "ability to improvise when standard defensive patterns fail...
...last line of defense, and it should be more than ordinarily difficult for anybody to get past Crabtree, an "agile, shifty" runner himself. Bird played some defense in 1964 at Kentucky, but none this year; he was too busy being the Southeastern Conference's second leading ground gainer (with 646 yds.). A little still went a long way with the scouts. "A sure tackier, hard to fool on fakes," goes one report. "As a matter of fact, he's even better on defense than on offense...
McCluskey wound up the half with just two completions in seven passing attempts. Humphrey was five-for-11 for Yale. Leo with just 27 yards was the half's leading ground gainer...
Gatto is captain and leading ground-gainer for the Harvard freshman football team, and he is having quite a year. Last Saturday against Princeton, he returned a kickoff 95 yards for one touchdown and toted a screen pass 73 yards through heavy Tiger traffic for another score...