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...violent world of professional football, newcomers can expect to take their lumps early and often. Nonetheless, Rookie Coaches Tommy Prothro of the Los Angeles Rams and Dan Devine of the Green Bay Packers were hardly prepared for the rough reception that they received last week when the National Football League kicked off its 52nd season...
Going against the New Orleans Saints, a team that had stumbled to six straight losses in the exhibition season, Prothro's Rams figured to win in a walk. Instead, they were outrushed and outpassed by the inspired Saints. Rookie Quarterback Archie Manning, the flashy scrambler out of Ole Miss, scored on a keeper play at the gun to give New Orleans a 24-20 upset victory. The New York Giants, another winless team in the exhibition series, were even more disrespectful to Devine's Packers. After scoring on two Green Bay end-zone fumbles, the New Yorkers added...
Football Is Football. For Prothro and Devine, two of the most celebrated coaches ever to jump from college football into the pros, the opening games were a rude initiation into the big leagues. For the other pro teams, they were merely proof that the newcomers were, as Dallas Cowboy Coach Tom Landry had predicted, "going to find it's a different game." Devine, who says that he was hit but unhurt "30 to 50 times" while patrolling the sidelines at the University of Missouri, might well agree. Nonetheless he insists that "football is football, whatever the level." Like former...
...sharp eye for reading defenses, and his strapping size (6 ft. 3 in., 210 Ibs.) allows him to shake off tacklers as though they were so many rag dolls. "Plunkett is the best drop-back passer I've seen in college football," says U.C.L.A. Coach Tommy Prothro. "He has real strength and good speed. If you go all out to blitz him, he'll eat you alive." Adds University of Oregon Coach Jerry Frei, a 33-10 victim of Plunkett's passing: "I'm very happy to see him graduate...
...roster of the unimpressed includes Beban himself, who for anonymity's sake refuses to wear his letterman's jacket on campus. It does not, of course, include the pros. "I don't know anything about professional football," insists Coach Prothro, "and what's more, I don't care to know anything. But do they run the ball? Do they throw it? If they do, Beban should be just the sort of player they are looking...