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After missing the Patriots' rookie camp to finish his finals, Buckley has been working out informally with the team at its Foxboro headquarters. Working with quarterback coach Babe Parilli ("He was real helpful in tutoring Joe Namath," Buckley says), teh left-hander is trying to tune his game to the pro level, He only has a few months before he finds out whether the talent that propelled Harvard to five victories in the six games he played in 1980 will be good enough for the pros...
...next eight years Bryant was head coach at the University of Kentucky. In 1950 the school won its only outright championship of the Southeastern Conference. He was demanding. All-America Quarterback Babe Parilli, who later played with the Boston Patriots, recalls preseason training camps that began at 5:30 a.m. with orange juice and proceeded to head-on tackling drills at 6 a.m. He also remembers Bryant's coming into his hospital room the day after Parilli underwent surgery and throwing a stack of new plays on the bed. The plays were designed to let Parilli stand back...
...early AFL built up a steady following that rooted for indisputable stars like Lance Alworth and Babe Parilli and George Blanda--and thrilled to the bizarre bounces that the ball took when the talent of the Hall of Famers mixed democratically with the hall of flamers...
When Sports Illustrated listed the coaches for the new franchises, there seemed to be a depressing number of Hall of Famers. Babe Parilli (NFL) would coach the New York Stars. Tom Fears (NFL) was top man for the Southern California Suns. Jack Pardee (NFL) would lead the Washington Ambassadors. Further down on the list of twelve included three others from the NFL, two from the Canadian Football League, and one each from the college ranks. But after the name of Bud Asher, new coach of the Jacksonville Sharks, were these electric, unapologized-for credentials: NEW SMYRNA BEACH HIGH SCHOOL...
...Restic finds himself staking out that same block of concrete, he will wonder about Frank Ryan, Babe Parilli, Willie Davis, and Ralph Jelic and why they couldn't be coaching Harvard and looking at the floor. He will wonder why Yovicsin couldn't be coaching another year while he (Restic) handled physical education. How much easier it is to worry about bowling shoes that don't fit and badminton rackets with broken strings...