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...last week the N.F.L. was on strike. After six months of bargaining, the owners of the league's 16 teams had acceded to 21 player demands, including increases in the guaranteed minimum salary (to $12,000 for second-year men, $13,000 for third-year men), payments for preseason exhibition games ($500 per game) and such minor benefits as air conditioning in the training-camp barracks. But on the 22nd point-pensions-negotiations broke down. Determined to show its muscle, the N.F.L. Players Association, headed by Detroit Lions Guard John Gordy, ordered its 600 members not to report...
...preasant surprise for coach Jack Barnaby was the spirited performance of Harvard's lower singles players. Terry Oxford, Steve Devereux, and sophomore Larry Terrerl swept past their opponents with devastating ease. If their play continues to improve, these three could erase the question marks which puntuated Barnaby's preseason prognostications...
...sabre, junior Bob Barnard has shown his new colors by taking second in a preseason Amateur Fencers' League of America open tournament at M.I.T. against tough competition...
...glorious one, but the Ivy League has not been known for manufacturing professional material. He is small, even for a flankerback, and he is new at the position after a college career at running back. And he just got out of the Army last Friday, which means he missed preseason practice and games...
Dowling, one of the most sought-after players in the country as a high school senior three years ago, has been plagued by a variety of injuries. Last year he was lost in the second game, and this year he was hurt in preseason practice...