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...threw 25 touchdown passes this year. But they also had the N.F.L.'s leakiest defense, by the margin of 237 yds. and 20 first downs. The experts figured that was a dainty dish to set before the Western Champion Colts, with the strongest offense (428 points) and the stingiest defense (225 points) in pro football. What's more, the East had won only one N.F.L. title in the last seven years. At game time, the oddsmakers favored Baltimore by seven points...
...huge dressing-room poster proclaimed: HOME OF THE GREEN BAY PACKERS-THE NEW YORK YANKEES OF FOOTBALL. Like baseball's Yankees, the World Champion Packers seemed invincible; they were unbeaten in six preseason and ten regular-season games. They boasted the highest-scoring offense (309 points), the stingiest defense (74 points) in pro football, and sportswriters called them "the greatest team ever assembled...
...even with the stingiest defense around, the varsity will need a stellar performance from its attack unit to beat the perennially tough Tigers. Lou Williams must score heavily; Grady Watts must shake up the Princeton defense with his sharp passing game; and Woody Spruance must continue to bull his way around the goal for scores...
...Alcoa Hour (Sun. 9 p.m., NBC). The Stingiest Man in Town, new musical version of Dickens' A Christmas Carol...
...Stingiest Man in Town (Dec. 23, 9 p.m., NBC) will be Alcoa Hour's first 90-minute musicolorcast. Basil Rathbone as a syncopated Scrooge, plus Singers Vic Damone, Patrice Munsel, Martyn Green, Robert Weede and other un-Dickensian characters...