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...play work. With vitamin pills a staple on his breakfast table, and a well-balanced diet to nourish him all through his youth, the average U.S. college freshman of the '60s is half an inch taller than his father, and still growing. It is no surprise, says Vince Lombardi, coach of the pro champion Green Bay Packers, that "today's football player is bigger, faster and sharper mentally." Today's baseball player is bigger too. In almost every sport, the good big man is displacing the good little man. For those who are not big enough...
College Stuff. As far as the Packers are concerned, a first half is just a patrol action. Contact the enemy, draw his fire, test his strengths, probe his weaknesses. In the locker room at half time, Coach Vince Lombardi wasted no time on pep talks. "Stop grabbing and start tackling," he growled, and then he got down to specifics. Fact One: the Chiefs, on the average, were younger, bigger and probably stronger than the Packers -whose ground game had not been much to brag about all year, anyhow. That led naturally to Fact Two: Packer Quarterback Bart Starr, who completed...
Anybody who hangs around Vince Lombardi's Packers for long is bound to get bruised. Basic, bone-bending football is Lombardi's game, and he has made the most of it with four N.F.L. championships in the past six years. Nothing risky, no mistakes. Nothing risky, that is, except where the gamble could mean a payoff of $23,500 per man-like last week against the Dallas Cowboys for the N.F.L. championship and a trip to Los Angeles. Unable to run against a fierce Dallas defense, Quarterback Starr suddenly put wings on the ball. Three times...
...Vince Lombardi believes his own spies, the Packers may have to step out of character against Kansas City too. "The Chiefs are very much like Dallas," was Scout Wally Cruice's report after watching Kansas City annihilate Buffalo, 31-7, for the A.F.L. title last week. So they are, with one big difference: size. Kansas City's defensive line outweighs Green Bay's by nine lbs. per man; on offense, the gap is 15 lbs. The Chiefs own a Starr of their own in Quarterback Lenny Dawson, who completed 56% of his passes this season...
...case was cinched, however, when Lombardi revealed that never, not once in seven years, had be seen an AFL game, even...