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...Golden Boy" was on the bench. Paul Hornung, triple-threat halfback, Most Valuable Player in the National Football League, was sidelined with torn ligaments in his right knee-and for three weeks all the fans saw of him were the cigarette ads on the backs of magazines. But the World Champion Green Bay Packers hardly noticed. The offense scored 86 points, the defense limited its opponents to 26, and the Packers (1962 record: eight wins, no losses) continued unmolested toward their third straight Western Conference championship. Sportswriters asked George Halas, owner of the twice-victimized (49-0, 38-7) Chicago...
...keep his Western Champion Green Bay Packers moving against the Eastern Champion New York Giants, Packer Coach Vince Lombardi relied on a savagely blocking line, the accurate passing of Quarterback Bart Starr, and the multiple talents of Paul Hornung - the N.F.L.'s Player of the Year. Hornung drove past Giant defenders for 89 yds. (including a 6-yd. touchdown burst), booted three field goals and four extra points as the Packers cut down the hapless Giants...
...Army, already up to its boot-tops in professional athletic talents, last week snared two more famous names: New York Yankee Shortstop Tony Kubek, 25, married only two weeks, who joined Wisconsin's Red Arrow Division at Fort Lewis, Wash., and Green Bay Packer Halfback Paul Hornung, 25, top scorer in the National Football League, who reports next week to Fort Riley, Kans., at the end of a two-week deferment granted on medical grounds. Said Hornung, who originally was disqualified because of a pinched nerve in his neck, then pronounced fit after a second exam...
...Hornung, as for Lombardi, pro football has two attractions: the game and the money. "I like playing football," he says. "I like to live good and travel good. Football enables me to go first class, and I enjoy it." Hornung enjoys earning about $50,000 a year-$20,000 for playing football, the rest from endorsements (Wilson footballs, Jantzen sportswear), commercials and personal appearances-and invests every penny he can spare...
Last week Coach Lombardi was glumly writing Congressmen in hopes of getting his star halfback's Army reporting date postponed for 90 days. Hornung himself was frankly unhappy at the prospect of a year in second-class accommodations. But, wisely, he said little. "It didn't come as a complete surprise," he said, resignedly. "If I have to serve, I'll serve...