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...Dallas Cowboys delayed the N.F.L. proceedings for 2½ hours, awaiting a doctor's report on Oregon Halfback Mel Renfro, who had cut his wrist on a mirror-and drafted Texas Tackle Scott Appleton instead. Coaches cackled happily when they landed a prospect that the opposition had overlooked. "I like this kid," said Green Bay's Vince Lombardi of his 14th-round choice, Northwestern End Tom O'Grady. "When you talk to him, his eyes light up. Besides, he's six-four, weighs 205 and runs...
...HALFBACKS: Mel Renfro, 22, Oregon, 6 ft., 195 lbs.; and Paul Warfield, 20, Ohio State, 6 ft., 178 lbs. "The days of the pony back are over," says one scout. "And by pony I mean everyone weighing much under 200 lbs. With these big defensive lines, you have to run big, fast bull elephants." Oregon's Renfro is just what the zoologist ordered. He runs the high hurdles, is a 9.7-sec. dash man, plows into tacklers "with reckless abandon and no regard for his personal safety." Ohio State's Warfield will have to put on pounds...
HALFBACKS: Jerry Stovall, 21, Louisiana State; 6 ft. 2 in., 200 lbs. Mel Renfro, 20, Oregon; 6 ft., 190 lbs. "Stovall is the complete football player." reads a scouting report. "Runner, receiver, defensive player, kicker. Comes up with the big play when it's needed." Oregon's Renfro can sprint 100 yds. in 9.6 sec., change direction in a flash; he still has a year of college to go, but the scouts consider him the best running back in the country: "No senior can run as well." U.C.L.A.'s Kermit Alexander...
Person to Person. In Chattanooga, Moonshiner Bob Renfro spotted sheriff's men closing in on his house, hurriedly poured his homemade liquor down the sink, discovered too late that Chief Herbert Grant was waiting with an open jug at the other end of the drain...
...only touchdown. That was their last gasp. The Browns went for Layne mercilessly till he seemed almost out of action. A long pass by Graham, intended for Cleveland End Darrell Brewster, was knocked out of Brewster's hands but alertly grabbed in midair by Cleveland Halfback Ray Renfro. That set up the Browns' fourth touchdown, and the fifth followed when Renfro made a miraculous fingertip catch of a Graham pitch in the end zone...