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...chilling reality that as the last line of defense, every time he makes a mistake the enemy gets six points. In the N.F.L., the safety man who comes closest to achieving the impossible is the New York Giants' squarejawed, sturdy (5 ft. 10 in., 180 Ibs.) Jimmy Patton...
...round star at the University of Mississippi, Patton was drafted by the Giants in 1955 for defensive work. He soon realized that he knew next to nothing about the game of football as it is played by the pros-and he learned the hard way. Pro ball carriers knocked him cold time and again. Not until his third year did he really begin to solve pass patterns and develop into a star. This season, at 28, Jimmy Patton is an articulate, confident craftsman who is recognized throughout the National Football League as the safety man who has mastered every trick...
Method for Mayhem. "When a fullback like Jimmy Brown of the Cleveland Browns breaks loose up the middle." says Patton in discussing the science of the safety man, "I don't watch his head. He can fake me with his head. I watch his belt buckle, and I keep my eye on it, just the way a batter watches a baseball. He can't wiggle that belt buckle. I get down low enough to get below his shoulder and try to hit him headon. It's easy enough to get to Brown's belly. Holding...
Minuet for Two. Pass defense is the crucial job for a safety man. Although he has run 100 yds. in 9.9 sec., Patton does not consider himself a fast man by pro. standards. For the sake of speed, Patton wears no hip pads, makes do with a piece of sponge rubber over each hipbone. With the rest of the famed Giant defensive unit. Patton has studied his opponents' attacking habits thoroughly. Patton knows that the fine blocking of the Baltimore Colts will give Quarterback Johnny Unitas four seconds or more to pass; he knows too that the St. Louis...
...Nixon Committee" ("Anyone who considers himself a celebrity," said a Nixon aide, "is eligible to join"). The heads of the Big Three farm organizations, the American Farm Bureau Federation, the National Grange and the National Farmers Union, came by to talk farm policy. Said Farmers Union President James Patton afterwards: "He had some very worthwhile ideas ... I also found him to be a good listener...