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...Boston Patriots picked Harvard's Bobby Leo and Dave Davis in the annual pro football draft, yesterday. Offensive halfback Leo was taken in the seventh round, and defensive tackle Davis in the 12th...
Former Crimson all-Ivy halfback Leo said that he "couldn't be happier" over being chosen by the Patriots. The Boston receiving corps is older and slower than most, so his chances of making the team appear good. And Leo will once again be playing near his home -- he starred at Everett High School before coming to Harvard...
...autobiography, Football and the Single Man, the Green Bay Packers' sometime Golden Boy, Halfback Paul Hornung, 31, sounded as brave, clean and reverent as a Boy Scout. Said he: "I would still rather score a touchdown than make love to the prettiest girl in the United States." Hampered this season by a pinched nerve in his neck, Paul scored only five touchdowns. But at least he's got one of the prettier girls in the U.S. And in a few weeks, Paul, the swinger emeritus of the National Football League, will marry Dallas Model Pat Roeder...
...another 331 yds. on pass receptions. Tight End Max McGee is 34 and has caught only three passes all year, but one of them set up the game-winning touchdown when the Packers beat the Baltimore Colts three weeks ago to clinch the N.F.L.'s Western Division championship. Halfback Paul Hornung, 30, and painfully burdened by a pinched nerve in his neck, is still, by the consensus of his fellow pros, "the greatest money player in the game." And Quarterback Bart Starr, at 32, is the No. 1 passer in the N.F.L. (156 completions in 251 attempts...
...halfback Bobby Leo whipped two other footballers--John Tyson and Joe Sam Robinson -- in the 40-yard dash Wednesday to gain a position on the team along with Anderson, who didn't have to compete...