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...playing safety in the National Football League requires almost as many athletic skills as winning the decathlon. Ideally, the safety man must have the speed of a sprinter to keep up with whippet-fast backs and ends as they break for passes. He must have the wit to diagnose plays in advance, the instinct to follow them as they unfold. He must have the strength and guts to hurl himself head-on at a 230-lb. fullback. And he must learn to live with the chilling reality that as the last line of defense, every time he makes a mistake...
...Crimson quarterback in at least four years. With experience, he will be very, very good.GEORGE EKSTROM (48) starts on the 11-yard jaunt that gave Cornell its second touchdown of the afternoon. The Crimson's JIM NELSON (35) and BERT MESSENBAUGH try In vain to stop Ekstrom, a sprinter on the Big Red track team. No one laid a hand on the rapid halfback on his scoring burst. In all he gained 23 yards on just two rushes. The scoring sweep was the climax of a drive that covered 80 yards in 15 plays. Cornell's George Telesh carried...
...Rome Wilma turned out to be about the calmest person on the U.S. squad, contrasting sharply with her steady date, tense and tormented Sprinter Ray Norton. "There's not a nerve in her body," said Ed Temple, her college coach, who also handled the U.S. women's team in Rome. "She's almost lazy. She often goes to sleep between the semifinal and final runs. Then she gets over those starting blocks and-boom-all that harnessed energy explodes into speed...
...away from the field in the finals to finish in n sec. flat (a time invalidated for a world record by a tail wind). First U.S. girl to win the event since 1936, Wilma made another conquest in Rome: she wandered about Olympic Village hand-in-hand with U.S. Sprinter Ray Norton, who was having his troubles on the track...
...step on a man in the 100 meters," says U.S. Sprinter Ray Norton, "you can just look over your shoulder at him and let him do his best. He'll never catch you." Last week a Frankfurt sales clerk named Armin Hary, 23, got a step on the world's fastest sprinters, including Norton himself, and ran off with the 100-meters gold medal for one of the biggest upsets of the Olympics...