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...college players concluding their undergraduate grid careers this winter are an uncommonly rugged group. TIME'S annual poll of professional scouts to determine the athletes who will be most sought after in the N.F.L. draft has turned up an abundance of intimidating talent. The way the pros saw the season, the best players were linemen and linebackers-big rough performers schooled in the grunt-and-groan tradition that Lombardi refined to savage perfection at Green...
...attendance has begun to slip. and there is a shortage of top performers. "There used to be 18 true professionals on each team," says Bobby Hull, the former Black Hawks star who is now player-coach of the W.H.A. Winnipeg Jets. "Now there's an influx of mediocre pros, guys who don't put out every night. There's an inability to perform the fundamentals. The skating isn't keen, the passing is off, and the hitting is not strong...
Sanders hopes to find student musicians, such as the Harvard Jazz Band, to play for each of the squad's 11 home games. "A little rock, jazz, or rhythm and blues adds that something which, even in the pros, gets a player going six inches higher off the ground. The fans like it, too," Sanders says...
There is a single, overriding principle in the current controversy about I.Q., accounting for its tone and quality far more than the actual pros and cons. It is that any criticism, no matter how false or incompetent, of I.Q. tests or of the argument that intelligence has a genetic component will be widely circulated, mostly believed, often quoted, and in due course, almost certainly published. If the incompetence or falsity of such a statement comes to light, those who embraced it will simply turn to the next document purporting to show the I.Q. to be meaningless, immoral, culturally biased, capitalist...
...have to say to myself, 'I can't let the man score a bundle or I'll hear about no defense.' " At 22, Ernie is also having other rookie problems. "There was a closeness in college," he says. "The guys hung around together. In the pros you have men of different ages. They go their separate ways." He also feels that Coach Jack Ramsay's tactics do not set up enough plays for guards. But Ernie is not one to dwell on morale or excuses...