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...three-month affair between the Crimson halfback and the pro football leagues began two days after the Yale game when a general scout representing the NFL Giants, Vikings, Eagles, Bears, and Cardinals informally chattered to a large group, including Leo. In the middle of the next week came a more serious relationship. Coach John Yovicsin telephoned Leo that a scout from the San Francisco 49'ers was in the IAB projection room, watching films of him, Steve Diamond, and Dave Davis...
...chief Eastern scout for the 49'ers, and also represented the Dallas Cowboys," remembered Leo. "He was a very serious, business-like type. When he asked us our heights we instinctively rounded them upwards an inch or so--but I was six feet for only a couple of minutes. Then and there he asked us to take off our shoes and measured us--and I was back...
...little late and by the time I arrived Steve and Dave had already been clocked once for 40 yards. I wasn't quite awake yet and I wanted to make sure I was loose, so I started these exercises we use in track. Dave told me later that the scout, watching impatiently half-way down the field, quietly remarked. 'This kid's a real showboat...
About two weeks later the scout sent me a psychological test--with a lot of word matching--which the Dallas Cowboys wanted. I sent it back and got a nice letter from them which said I was a 'top priority' choice. Three weeks before the draft they called me and asked if I had been contacted by a Canadian team. When I told them I'd gotten a letter from the Toronto Argonauts they advised me to wait for the American draft, which I was going to do anyway...
...other team that sent a scout to see me in person was Oakland [the AFL Oakland Raiders]. He stopped by in early February and asked me the standard questions: height, weight, speed, positions, military and marital status. A week before the draft the Rams called long-distance from Los Angeles with the same questions. And I also got letters from 12 or 15 teams, requesting the usual information...