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...Scheper is a victim of circumstances more than anything else, a pass receiver on a team that runs the ball a lot and runs it well. Harvard head coach Joe Restic has no reservations about the way Scheper has handled split end ("He's done a fine job"), but the combination of a strong running attack and the fact that Cuccia--no dropback passer--hasn't been able to get outside to throw, has kept Scheper running fruitless patterns all year...
There was a time in Paul Scheper's football career when he got the ball a lot. At Granada Hills High School outside Los Angeles, he set a school mark with 53 pass receptions in his senior year, and was All-San Fernando Valley as a halfback. That put him in some pretty hefty company. John Elway, a starter and potential Heisman Trophy winner at Stanford, was the quarterback at Granada Hills when Scheper was there. Tom Ramsey and Dave Laufenberg, quarterbacks at rival high schools, now practice their specialties at UCLA and Indiana, respectively. When Scheper returns to California...
...think I could play somewhere like UCLA," the 5-ft., 9-in., 178 lb. Scheper says. "I wouldn't start, but I would play...
Granada Hills High is important to Scheper for a non-football reason as well. It was there that he met Gigi Railla, his wife of three months. "I was the star football player and she was the star cheerleader," Scheper laughs. Theirs, however, is not the typical high school-sweetheart romance...
...After Scheper left Northridge, Ca., for Harvard, the two stayed in touch. "We'd write letter," Gigi says. "We got to know each other through writing and phone calls." When Paul returned to California for Christmas vacation, the pair started going out, and they've been together ever since. Until they got married August 22, however, it was mostly romance by long distance. In fact, when Paul asked Gigi to marry him on February 12, 1981, it was, believe it or not, over the phone. Actually the two had discussed marriage previously, but Paul wanted to check...