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...bowl games is out of the way, the 26 National and American League football teams will sit down to draft this year's college seniors into the ranks of the pros. At that point, the most important man on every coach's staff will be his chief scout. How really valuable is that scrambling, rollout quarterback who has been dazzling college fans all fall and has the press clippings to prove it? Can that light little scatback or that skinny, glue-fingered end stand up against the agile brutes of the big leagues? Who are the sleepers...
OFFENSE QUARTERBACKS: MIKE PHIPPS, Purdue, 6 ft. 3 in., 207 lbs. "Phipps has all the qualifications of a topflight quarterback," says one scout. "He has a great arm, plenty of poise and is a born leader." Phipps' brilliant three-year record includes 375 completions for 5,432 yds. and 37 touchdowns; he threw only 34 interceptions. The pros like his ability to drop quickly into the pocket and stay there; they rarely go for scramblers, although, says one observer, "he runs well enough to be an effective rollout passer, too." They also like Phipps' size and strength...
...This year's Heisman Trophy winner, Owens rewrote the record books with career totals of 3,867 yards rushing and 56 touchdowns-the latter eclipsing the three-year mark of 51 set in 1946 by Army's legendary Glenn Davis. He impressed one scout as "a crusher, with good balance-one of the great competitors of the '60s. He does it all the hard way." Though he lacks the blinding speed of Gale Sayers or O. J. Simpson, Owens is a driving, slashing runner who, as one scout puts it, "can carry the ball 55 times...
...assembly line. Ruby tunelessly chants The Best Things in Life Are Free, then crawls for the pennies people throw her way. A Harlow-eyed blonde (Susannah York) is in the contest not for the $1,500 prize, but for a chance to be seen by a movie talent scout who might elevate her to bearable unreality. When the marathon begins to drag, Rocky dresses the participants in track suits and has them race around the floor-an event that literally causes the ancient mariner's heart to break...
...salesman's spirit flags. "The manager's whole life, his home, his wife, his family, become the center of social activity for that sales force," says Beyer. "An army is disciplined out of fear; our men are disciplined out of loyalty to a leader, like a Cub Scout pack would be. A man cannot have the choice of whether he comes to the Saturday meeting or not. He wants to come." Vacations? "We think working for us is having a vacation...