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What does a young man do when he stands 6 ft. 3 in. and weighs 215 Ibs., can run the 100-yd. dash in 9.8 sec., catch footballs like Del Shofner, and belt a baseball out of sight? He could, of course, become an orthopedic surgeon like his old man. But there are easier ways to make a lot of money. Just by signing his name to a contract with the Los Angeles Angels last week, Fred ("Rick") Reichardt of Stevens Point, Wis., picked up a cool $175,000 -which may be the biggest bonus ever paid to a baseball...
...Slip-Up. Last week the Bears came up against the Eastern champion New York Giants in the N.F.L. playoff. And-crunch-defense won again. Onto Chicago's Wrigley Field pranced the high-scoring (32 points per game) Giants, with wonderful Y. A. Tittle and his acrobatic receivers-Del Shofner, Frank Gifford, Aaron Thomas. There stood the glowering Bears, aching to cuff them around. At 7:22 of the first quarter, Tittle lofted his 37th touchdown pass of the year-a soft, 14-yd. beauty to Gifford. It was the only mistake the Bears made all day. A few minutes...
...fans braved Yankee Stadium's 13° cold to howl for Green Bay blood. Around New York the "smart" money was on the home-town Giants. The Packers were tired, the skeptics said. Nobody could pass like the Giants' Y. A. Tittle, nobody could catch like Del Shofner...
...Tittle is this year's master of the long pass, the touchdown "bomb," has thrown more scores (27) than any other pro. Giant Halfback Frank Gifford is riding the crest of a spectacular comeback after a year's retirement, and Tittle's favorite receiver, Del Shofner, is the league's best end, so surehanded and deceptive that even with an ulcer (which put him in the hospital for a rest last week) he makes sieves out of most pass defenses...
...caught flatfooted by a suddenly sprung long pass. "There's no such thing as a 'sure thing' in football," says Tittle. "The important thing is to play percentages-to do the thing that has the best chance of success." Last week End Del Shofner reported that Redskin Defender Claude Crabb could be faked out of position. "Yeah," nodded Tittle, 'as soon as we get a chance." By game's end, Shofner had caught eleven Tittle passes for 269 yds. and one touchdown...