Word: linesmen
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...Fullback Paige Cothren of Mississippi (Los Angeles Rams) produced two surprisingly professional field goals of 12 and 25 yds., the boys' passing attack never again threatened the men's defense. While the Giants' backfield deployed far to the rear to bat down long passes, beefy Giant linesmen crashed through to rush Quarterbacks Brodie and Paul Hornung. In marked difference between pro experience and college eagerness, the college quarterbacks tried to run and were smeared, while the Giants' Charley Conerly refused to budge when rushed, coolly ate the ball and waited for the next play...
...against Hoad in the finals, everything worked. When necessary, Ken found he could command the net himself. His long, flat drives flicked baseline chalk so often that overworked linesmen seemed to make more errors than he did. He pulled Hoad up with sneaky drop shots. He sent him scurrying toward the baseline after deft lobs that his beefy blond adversary seemed to have forgotten how to handle. He ran Lew Hoad off the slippery green court...
...Philadelphia's handsome, aging (32) Vic Seixas (rhymes with gracious) blew a handsome lead. For most of five sets the crowd got some thrilling tennis. Then Seixas' styleless but often effective game came to pieces in the face of a couple of questionable calls. Glaring at the linesmen got him nowhere. "Get on with it!" called an irritated fan, but Seixas was through. Deft and deadly, Australia's young (21) Ken Rosewall ran out the match 6-3, 3-6, 6-8, 6-3, 7-5. While Vic ungreixously stopped his ears to drown out the cheers...
Dazzling white lines shining at five-yard intervals ran across the field. The linesmen and umpires with their striped shirts stood on the margin of the playing field. Another roar of jubilation broke out as the Giants appeared. In only a few seconds, the hour-long battle would start. Four 15-minute periods of desperate struggle lay immediately before...
...chance; his booming serve was his only weapon and it was not enough. He ran himself ragged, and when the close calls went against him he had little energy left for complaint. The best he could muster were a few defiant glares (called "oldfashioned looks" in Britain) at the linesmen...