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...backs will include scrum half Gary Latz, fly half Greg Sandomirsky, centers Hal Clark and Jamie Plunkett, wings Dick Barrett and Ken Otto and fullback Tim Finn...
This year's battle for the bodies began routinely enough. By finishing last in the N.F.L., the Boston Patriots won the right to choose first. As expected, they picked Heisman Trophy Winner Jim Plunkett, the strapping Stanford quarterback who was everybody's all-everything. Not to be denied in the Year of the Quarterback, the New Orleans Saints then snapped up Archie Manning from Ole Miss, while the Houston Oilers opted for Dan Pastorini of Santa Clara College, a bullet thrower who also excels at punting and place-kicking. Then came the surprises. After a brilliant season, Notre...
...stands against "racism and repression." And the game was played in Dallas, where "football is the plaything of oilmen and their right-wing political friends" and where John Kennedy was shot. In the Rose Bowl at Pasadena, Wechsler was pulling for Stanford against Ohio State because Stanford Quarterback Jim Plunkett is the son of blind parents, his mother a Chicano, and Ohio State Coach Woody Hayes is a middle-American "martinet of the old school...
QUARTERBACK. Jim Plunkett, Stanford, 6 ft. 3 in., 210 lbs. In the so-called Year of the Quarterback, Plunkett stands taller than any competitor. Winner of the Heisman Trophy by a lopsided vote, he not only led the Indians to their first Rose Bowl bid in 18 years but rolled up 7,887 yds. in total offense, a new career record for major-college quarterbacks. Big and brawny enough to shake off tacklers, Plunkett is a classic pro-style drop-back passer with a strong, accurate arm at all ranges. Rival coaches praise his tactical knowledge, his knack for reading...
...Plunkett figures to have the pro scouts hanging all over him throughout the winter. "He could play for the pros right now," says the Dallas Cowboys' Gil Brandt. "He'll undoubtedly be the first guy selected in the draft." Far from resenting the publicity heaped on Plunkett, his teammates regard him as their personal property. "If anyone ever got by me and hurt Jim," says Offensive Tackle Bill Meyers, "I think I'd turn in my uniform." After cinching the Rose Bowl bid, Stanford lost its final two games -a letdown that the players regretted because...