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...NCAA, having failed to punish its wrongdoers, night throw away the Sanity Code and save its investigators' time and expenses; or other members might adopt what seems to be an increasingly popular attitude at Ivy League schools--to stay home, play each other, and stop fooling around with the pros...
...Rough. Seldom had pro football seen such a superbly integrated gang of old pros-and Greasy Neale, 58, was the oldest pro of them all. "I won't sit next to him on the bench," cracks Van Buren, "he's too rough." Greasy runs the Eagles with the casual despotism of an old athlete who can never quite forget that he was a fast, elusive end at West Virginia Wesleyan, where he got his nickname...
...natural competitor, Greasy has taken a crack at big-league baseball (as an outfielder for the Cincinnati Reds), coached college football from Marietta College to Yale, including W. & J.'s 1922 Rose Bowl team. His pros regard him as something special-a coach who mixes with his men, plays cards with them, kids them, takes their kidding, fines them and is even ready to tussle with them. Says big Al Wistert, his All-America tackle: "You can't help playing hard for a guy like that...
Last week at half time of the Pittsburgh Steelers game, Owner Marshall was barred from the Redskins' dressing room in Washington's Griffith Stadium. The coach, Vice Admiral John E. Whelchel, U.S.N. (ret.), was giving his pros a pep talk, and it was for the ears of football players only. "Billick" Whelchel broke a big piece of news: it was his last game with the Redskins. He shook hands all around, then made his speech: "Now go out there and win that game for me." The Redskins did in a shifting, fast-moving finale that included passes...
...that stood between Gonzales' goodbye to amateur tennis and his hello to the pros was his signature on a ready & waiting contract. Next month, Pancho is scheduled to begin a professional tour in Madison Square Garden with Big Jake Kramer as his opponent and little Bobby Riggs (who plans to be just a part-time player) as promoter. The deal calls for Pancho to pocket 30% of the gate, against Kramer's 25%. The $50,000 or so he expects to make in one quick shot dwarfs any amount he could make in years of wrangling and ducking...