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...straight games, shattered the Baltimore Colts (45-7) and Cleveland Browns (49-17), needed only to beat the San Francisco Forty-Niners' flashy "shotgun" offense to gain sole possession of first place in the National Football League's Western Division. Then the blow fell: Private Paul Vernon Hornung was ordered to active duty in the U.S. Army Reserve, effective 30 October...
...Linebacker Chuck Bednarik, 35, both talking about retiring after that day's championship play-off of the National Football League. But in the second period Van Brocklin coolly passed to Halfback Tommy McDonald for a 35-yd. touchdown. Then a crunching tackle by Bednarik put Packer Halfback Paul Hornung, the league's leading scorer, out of the game with a pinched nerve in his shoulder. When the Packers were driving for the last-second touchdown that might have won the game, there was Bednarik again, on the very last play, to wrestle Packer Fullback Jim Taylor...
...signals and passed their way to a 35-21 win over the Los Angeles Rams to clinch the National Football League's Western title. Next week in the league-championship game against the East's Philadelphia Eagles, the Packers will match the power game of Halfback Paul Hornung and Fullback Jim Taylor against the pinpoint passing of nerveless Eagle Quarterback Norm Van Brocklin...
...Hornung played well in 1959 as the Packers rallied to finish with a respectable 7-5 record, but not until this year did he hit full stride. He kicks field goals. He catches passes. He sweeps the ends. He passes. He slashes up the middle. Paired with jolting Fullback Jim Taylor (6 ft., 210 lbs.), Hornung gives the Packers the most powerful running game in the league...
This season he has already scored 165 points to break by 27 the league record set in 1942 by Green Bay End Don Hutson, another blond glamour boy. But proud as he is of his own performance, Hornung is in no doubt as to the reason for the resurgence of the Packers: "Lombardi. Lombardi raises hell...