Word: scouting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...college halfback takes the handoff, slices off tackle, cuts right and scoots down the sideline 60 yds. for a touchdown. The crowd goes wild-all except a handful of tight-lipped men scattered around the stadium, jotting cryptic phrases in notebooks. They are the professional football scouts, and they know all about that particular halfback: too small, slow acceleration, can't cut left. The pros would gobble him alive. The player they watch is the 260-lb. offensive tackle who opened the hole-or maybe that 240-lb. defensive linebacker who fought off three men before he was knocked...
...HALFBACKS: Gale Sayers, 21, Kansas, 6 ft., 195 Ibs., and Donny Anderson, 21, Texas Tech, 6 ft. 3 in., 207 Ibs. Sayers has gained 2,675 yds. in his three varsity seasons, and a scout put it this way: "He's quick, man, quick. Don't blink your eyes or you'll miss him." Anderson, a draft-eligible junior, gets the same raves: "Has superspeed with the power of a fullback and possesses that little extra elusiveness a great back needs. Something like the Vikings' Tommy Mason, but faster...
Hosts Marlin Perkins and Jim Fowler explore the 130,000-acre Philmont Boy Scout ranch in New Mexico...
...very first Columbia play, Frank Ulcickas spilled Roberts' receiver, Bob Klingensmith, for a 12-yard loss after Archie was hit trying to pass. Then Ulcickas dumped Roberts for a six-yard loss and the pro scout who had come to watch Archie wrote down Ulcickas' name...
...frozen fans filtered slowly out of Baker Field, knowing that Columbia's second loss had virtually knocked them out of the Ivy League title race. In the press box, the scout packed up and left, with a long list of Harvard names on his pad and a big question mark beside the name of Archie Roberts.TOP: WALLY GRANT (12) misses interception of wild Roberts pass. BOTTOM: TOM BILODEAU (18) drags down Columbia defender as PAUL GUZZI (25) grabs the pass...