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...twice. Despite those credentials, Griffin may not be first to go. According to pro scouts, the man most likely to succeed in an N.F.L. backfield is Chuck Muncie, a harddriving, shifty tailback from the University of California at Berkeley (see box). Rated not far behind Muncie and Griffin is Oklahoma's quicksilver running back Joe Washington. "There's no question about it," says one scout. "This is the year of the running back." It is also a big year for the heartland: 13 of the nation's 29 top players come from Big Ten and Big Eight...
...also durable. He has never missed a college game because of injury, though he carries the ball an average of 20 times per game. For a team in the market for a scatback like Terry Metcalf of the St. Louis Cardinals, the answer is Joe Washington, University of Oklahoma...
WIDE RECEIVERS. Larry Dorsey, Tennessee State, 6 ft. 1 in., 187 lbs.; and Tinker Owens, Oklahoma, 5 ft. 11 in., 180 lbs. Dorsey, with 4.5-sec. speed in the 40-yd. dash, has impressed the scouts by catching 47 passes this season despite frequent triple coverage. Owens, whose older brother Steve was a Heisman Award-winning running back for Oklahoma six years ago, "doesn't have size or speed but makes the clutch catch." Even though Oklahoma won the Big Eight title this year with a minimum of passing, the scouts say another top wide receiver is Owens...
ENDS. Leroy Selmon, Oklahoma, 6 ft. 3 in., 256 lbs.; and Troy Archer, Col orado, 6 ft. 3 in., 219 lbs. Selmon, one of the most tantalizing prospects in the draft, is from a family of Oklahoma line men (Brother Lucious played guard two years ago, and Brother Dewey plays it now). Selmon's ability to shed blockers and diagnose plays is not his only at traction. "You can say all the clever things you want," says one scout, "but with Leroy it boils down to one thing...
...newly built GM cars "are designed for year-round traction performance." Tests conducted by GM indicate that on loose or soft-packed snow, the radials provide 73% to 96% as much driving traction as snow tires; on hard-packed snow they perform just as well. Indeed, in Idaho, Texas, Oklahoma and New York City, the GM TPC-Spec radial qualifies as a snow tire. Recently the National Safety Council, after some prodding by GM, announced that tire performance in snow is determined by tread configuration; since the center-tread portion of GM's tire resembles that of a snow...