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...skills mark him as an early round draft choice. Despite his small college background. Wichard (TIME, Dec. 6) has the size and the statistics (41 touchdown passes in three seasons) that the pros prize. RUNNING BACKS. Ed Marimiro, Cornell...
...inward and all but "abandoned the field to the Hindus. As Historian Arnold Toynbee described it, "A British arbiter had decreed that the pen should be substituted for the sword as the instrument with which the competition was conducted." As independence approached, the Moslems understandably grew uneasy about the pros- pects of life under a vengeful Hindu majority. Moslem Leader Mohammed Ali Jinnah demanded the creation of a separate Islamic nation, Pakistan. Among the five provinces that opted to join the new nation was East Bengal, whose Moslem majority had no desire to live under a Hindu-controlled government...
...make it in the big league. In the past 20 seasons, such celebrated Heisman heroes as Notre Dame's Johnny Lattner (1953). Navy's Joe Bellino (1960). Oregon State's Terry Baker (1962) and U.C.L.A.'s Gary Beban (1967) all failed to flourish in the pros. And good as Sullivan is, a few scouts feel that he does not rate as high as a much less heralded passer: Gary Wichard of C.W. Post College...
...draft Wichard but admits that "we'd have to offer him everything short of the Houses of Parliament and the Bank of Canada." The Baltimore Colts, eager to groom a replacement for Johnny Unitas and Earl Morrail, are also interested. For Gary, who once worried that the pros "wouldn't find me," the attention is reassuring. Now, all but certain of being snapped up in the first or second round of the pro draft, he says: "If they want you, they find you, wherever you are." Even at C.W. where...
...Marinaro says he'll show the pros next year that he, not Pat Sullivan, should have won the Heisman Trophy. If his Ivy and national collegiate record-breaking performance is any indication. Marinaro should have a good chance of living up to his claims...