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Packer Coach Vince Lombardi tried to take the news stoically: "Well, no one person is bigger than the team." But Lombardi knew that the loss of Halfback Hornung might well turn the Packers into the patsies of the N.F.L. On every team in pro football, there is one indispensable player-one man on whose individual performance the team's success depends. The Baltimore Colts have Johnny Unitas. The Cleveland Browns have Jimmy Brown. On the Green Bay Packers, the indispensable man is Paul Vernon Hornung...
...extra points. And he does one thing better than anyone else in pro football: scores points. Last year Hornung scored 176 to break an 18-year-old N.F.L. record; in five games this season, he already has run up 77 points-33 in a single game. Says Coach Lombardi: "Paul is tremendous down near the goal line. He's the finest man I've ever seen when he gets down there...
More Than Money. Hornung's fortunes-and Green Bay's-took a rapid turn for the better with the arrival of Coach Lombardi in 1959. A former football player, law student, physics teacher and college coach, Lombardi is a hard-nosed disciplinarian and an advocate of forthright, bone-rattling football. At Green Bay, Lombardi's first job was to find a man around whom he could build an offense-a hard-running halfback who could throw a pass on the run. "Hornung was the type of halfback I had to have," Lombardi says. "I made...
...Hornung, as for Lombardi, pro football has two attractions: the game and the money. "I like playing football," he says. "I like to live good and travel good. Football enables me to go first class, and I enjoy it." Hornung enjoys earning about $50,000 a year-$20,000 for playing football, the rest from endorsements (Wilson footballs, Jantzen sportswear), commercials and personal appearances-and invests every penny he can spare...
Last week Coach Lombardi was glumly writing Congressmen in hopes of getting his star halfback's Army reporting date postponed for 90 days. Hornung himself was frankly unhappy at the prospect of a year in second-class accommodations. But, wisely, he said little. "It didn't come as a complete surprise," he said, resignedly. "If I have to serve, I'll serve...