Word: scouted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pickled brains leading my troops." One of his generals, who got publicly involved with a subordinate's wife, was summoned to Washington and swiftly resigned. In Johnson's jealous view, "The man or wife who will cheat on his partner will cheat on me." A onetime Star Scout, he keeps the Boy Scout Handbook and the Bible in his office. Fortunately for smokers, "Father Johnson," as he is sometimes called, burns up two packs of Winstons and four cigars daily...
...TACKLES: Francis Peay, 21, Missouri, 6 ft. 4 in., 246 lbs., and Sam Ball, 21, Kentucky, 6 ft. 4 in., 241 lbs. "If I were poetic," says one scout, "I'd say that Peay was very subtle for a lineman. There is real class in the way he hits people." Ball, says another, is simply "a mean S.O.B." Both are exceptionally agile for big men: "No matter how big a man is, he's going to be caught off balance too often if he hasn't got coordination...
...McAdams, 21, Oklahoma, 6 ft. 3 in., 226 lbs., and Frank Emanuel, 22, Tennessee, 6 ft. 3 in., 220 lbs. Nobis was the N.F.L.'s No. 1 draft choice, but it may take some doing to get his signature on a contract. "I look at him," sighs one scout, "and all I see is money. To some of these guys, anything less than the $400,000 Joe Namath got is going to sound like small potatoes. Nobis might be the man to match it." McAdams "may actually be better than Nobis," and Emanuel is "a tough, hardnosed...
...African damsels wear dresses with the portrait of J.F.K. printed on the fabric, and underlined by the caption: "Africa Will Not Forget You." One of Johnson's few African solaces is the fact that a Congolese group wrote to the U.S. embassy requesting permission to name a Boy Scout troop after L.B.J...
Tilt. Devaney's recruiting coups have done little to endear him to rival coach es, who grumble that Nebraska is "long on finances and short on academics.' That kind of criticism doesn't bother the pro scouts. Devaney already has furnished the pros with twelve players, and this year's crop of Cornhuskers is the most attractive yet. Murmured one awestruck scout, watching Nebraska take the field: "When they run out there, you can see the field tilt...