Word: ohio
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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FLANKER: WALKER GILLETTE, Richmond, 6 ft. 5 in., 205 lbs. The pros began to take serious notice of this lanky receiver when he caught 20 passes against Ohio University in the Tangerine Bowl last year, and nothing he has done this year (57 receptions, 11 TDs) has diminished their interest. A hurdler on the track team, Gillette has speed, superb balance, and more moves than Joe Namath at a cocktail party. "He's tall, thin as a reed," says one dossier, "yet he can take a beating. He's got a long, effortless stride-satin-smooth." All that...
GUARDS: RON SAUL, Michigan State, 6 ft. 2 in., 245 lbs., and CHUCK HUTCHISON, Ohio State, 6 ft. 4 in., 242 lbs. Crack guards are always a scarce commodity on the college market; most of them are too light to make it in the pros. Not Saul. "A big, tough battering ram who will block and rise to block again," says a scouting report. Hutchison, one in Woody Hayes' long line of tough, power-blocking tackles, will probably be converted to guard because "he has great speed for a big man and the savvy to pull and protect...
...West Africa in areas where the continents might have been joined; fossils of plants and animals from one continent that were identical to those on another, even though they are separated by thousands of miles of ocean. Just off Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf, for example, an Ohio State University expedition recently discovered the fossilized bones of a hippopotamus-like reptile called Lystro-saurus that had been thought to live only in prehistoric South Africa and Asia...