Word: scouting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...QUARTERBACK: Steve Spurrier, 21, Florida, 6 ft. 2 in., 203 lbs. Playing for a team that one pro scout called "the worst unbeaten team in the country" when it won its first seven games this season, Heisman Trophy Winner Spurrier was practically the whole offense. He completed 61% of his passes for 2,012 yds. and 16 touchdowns, punted 45 times for a 40.8-yd. average, kicked off and booted field goals. Mainly be cause of Spurrier's size, the pros rate him above Purdue's Bob Griese, who is one inch shorter and 20 Ibs. lighter...
...Clint Jones, 21, Michigan State, 6 ft. 1 in., 201 lbs. If anybody wonders where the old-fashioned 165-lb. scatbacks went, he might take a look at all those 275-lb. defensive tackles playing football these days. "We will always sacrifice quickness for weight," says one scout, but in the case of Farr and Jones, there is nothing to sacrifice-they both run the 100 in under 10 sec., have "the strength to break tackles" and "an eye for the goal line." The pros are also high on Notre Dame's Nick Eddy...
...bulldozing runner with amazing speed (9.9 sec. for 100 yds.) for his size, McDonald was the leading rusher in college ball, gained 1,329 yds. in 259 plays for an average of better than 5 yds. per carry. "We thought we had a sleeper," moans one scout, "until he scored five touchdowns in one game and got a lot of publicity...
...TACKLES: Maurice ("Mo") Moorman, 22, Texas A. & M., 6 ft. 5 in., 252 lbs., and Ron Vary, 20, Southern Cal, 6 ft. 6 in., 265 lbs. One scout calls Vary "the best offensive blocker in college ball in a long, long time." While the pros see the pair as the best college tackles around, they will have to wait. Both Moorman and Yary are juniors...
...name for the bloodiest cutthroat in Mexico!" roars Land Baron Ralph Bellamy. "Last week he kidnaped my wife." When the contraband wife is $100,000 worth of woman like Claudia Cardinale, matters are urgent enough to enlist Lee Marvin as a former Rough Rider, Woody Strode as a cunning scout, Robert Ryan as a nail-hard ex-cavalryman, and Burt Lancaster as a passionate explosives expert with a yen for "100-proof whisky, 90-proof women and 14-karat gold...