Word: kidding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lived in New York: "I got the feeling that the mother was so wrapped up in her own problems she never really saw her son's. I got the feeling that what the boy needed most was someone who cared. He was just a small, lonely, withdrawn kid who looked to me like he was heading for trouble...
...with a buck, Halas has been known to wrestle fans for the football after extra-point plays, and a player on a visiting team once complained that Halas provided only two bars of soap for 36 players. To a Bear player who pleaded for an advance "to buy my kid milk " Halas gallantly replied: "What's his address? I'll send him a quart...
...CENTER: Dick Butkus, 20, Illinois 6 ft. 3 in., 237 lbs. One rave notice: "Only a junior, but a very strong, hard-nosed, mean, nasty kid. Has an insatiable appetite for hitting people." Best on defense, Butkus would play defensive tackle as a pro. On offense, the pros like Texas Christian's Ken Henson, 20, (6 ft. 6 in., 255 lbs.), and Holy Cross's Jon Morris, 21 (6 ft. 3 in., 225 lbs.). The report on Morris: "A great player on a team that has no spring practice and schedules schools that do. Whatever the logic...
...pursuit. Almost impossible to knock off his feet." Also ranked high on the pro scouts' list are two small-college tackles: Buffalo's Gerry Philbin, 22 (6 ft. 2 in., 235 lbs.) and Louisville's Ken Kortas, 21 (6 ft. 4 in., 293 lbs.). "When a kid weighs as much as Kortas," says one scout, "you can't afford to overlook...
Among the supporting players, Louis Nye earns laughs as a bearded, way-out artist with an eye for the fast buck. "My stuff goes for 500 clams, but it's got a 1,000% profit potential," he says. Nye rides around on his latest masterwork aboard a kid's tricycle with a dribbling container of paint suspended over each wheel. Nye tells a visitor: "If you're going to walk on my canvas, the least you can do is put a little crimson on your soles." Pretty funny. But when all's said and done...