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Defensive players receiving honorable mention were end Ken Boyds, tackle Dave Davis, linebackers Jim Driscoll and Dick Hudak, and halfbacks John Dockery and Bill Cobb...
Seven Out of Nine. When he tucks that $23 official N.F.L. pigskin into the crook of his arm and stutter-steps into the line, big (6 ft. 2 in., 228 Ibs.) Jim Brown is without argument the greatest runner in professional football. In 1957, the first year he joined Cleveland as an All-America from Syracuse University and the Browns' No. 1 draft choice, he gained an incredible 942 yds. on the ground. He has not done that poorly since. Only eleven men in the N.F.L.'s 45-year history have gained 1,000 yds. or more...
...commotion the better")-although he does not share their separatist beliefs. Cleveland Sportscaster John Fitzgerald advised him on the air to pipe down and stick to football. Later, buttonholing Brown in the Cleveland dressing room, he explained to him: "I've always admired you as a football player, Jim. I've never looked on you as a Negro." "That's ridiculous!" Brown snapped. "You have to look at me as a Negro. Look at me, man! I'm black...
...Does Is Run. Statistics aside, there is no way to fix Brown's place among the great running backs of history-except to say that he is different. Somebody will always insist that Jim Thorpe or Johnny Blood or Bronko Nagurski or Red Grange or Steve Van Buren was the best runner who ever lived. Thorpe was flamboyant and unpredictable; he could be very good when the notion struck him-or very, very bad; he was always at his best when he had a bet riding on the game. Nagurski was a runaway truck who was lucky...
Starting center forward Jim Saltonstall and outsides Charlie Njoku and Dudley Blodget will all be back next fall, and should be joined on the line by the sophomore tandem of Bill Schaefer and Lutz Hoeppner that worked as relief insides this year...