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...baseball, Nixon likes to mingle with the players. Frank Gifford, the sports broadcaster who once played halfback for the Giants, recalls Nixon's days as a New York lawyer: "He is a football nut. He used to come to the dressing room and ask everybody probing questions about the game. When I lived near Yankee Stadium, I used to have people over after the game, maybe a dozen players, and Nixon would come. He didn't ask dumb questions." Sports stars are frequent guests at the White House; Arnold Palmer, Bart Starr and Billy Casper dropped by recently...
John Ballantyne '70, potential starting halfback on next year's football team, said, "Jack always used to say that any case he had was the strangest case he'd ever seen. This both disarmed and prodded the athlete who had the injury," Ballantyne added...
Often the toughest negotiating for an agent is in trying to land a star client. Some enlist the help of teammates with the promise that the agency will make a sizable contribution to the player's alma mater. Other agents play the wine-and-dine game. Halfback Chris Gilbert of the University of Texas felt he was being red-dogged by agents all season long. "If you even sounded interested," he says, "they'd get you anything you wanted. Pro Sports threw a party in New York for the All America team, and there must have been...
Beef Stock. If the choice of Simpson was obvious, the selections of Domres and Yale Halfback Calvin Hill, who was the first choice of the Dallas Cowboys, were surprises. It was in fact the first time in the 34-year history of the pro draft that two players from the lowly Ivy League were snapped up in the first round. Save for All-America Quarterback Terry Hanratty of Notre Dame, who was bypassed (presumably because of his injured knee) and later picked up in the second round by the Pittsburgh Steelers, the rest of the midwinter harvest was predictable...
Most teams sought to shore up their weak spots, though the Cleveland Browns, who already have an explosive running attack seemed to be padding when they opted for Michigan Halfback Ron Johnson. Green Bay's choice of unheralded Richie Moore, a 6-ft. 7-in., 290-lb. defensive tackle from Villanova, was based on more obvious logic. Aware that the current college crop is rich with running backs but thin on pro-caliber linemen, the Packers were apparently anxious to stock up on as much beef as they could...