Word: vanderkelen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...into blockers, and 250-lb. defense men hungrily eyed the oxygen tank beside the bench. But the heat wasn't nearly as hot as the youthful College All-Stars. On third down and three, with the ball on the All-Star 27, Wisconsin's Quarterback Ron VanderKelen dropped back and flipped a 20-yd. pass to End Pat Richter, who neatly sidestepped the Green Bay safety and sprinted 53 yds. for the winning touchdown. Final score: All-Stars 20, Packers 17-the first time in five years that the collegians had beaten the pros...
...coach whose team won only two of 14 games last fall, Dutch Van Brocklin seemed a trifle overenthusiastic. But he could be pardoned for gloating. In one of those classic, prop-studded contract ceremonies, he happily signed up the Vikings' newest recruit: Wisconsin Quarterback Ron VanderKelen, the most coveted pro prospect in the nation...
...VanderKelen's Viking contract called for $20,000-steep for a 23-year-old rookie who had played only 90 sec. of varsity ball prior to the 1962 season. But against Southern California on New Year's Day, he showed the kind of talent appreciated by ex-Quarterback Van Brocklin, who passed the Philadelphia Eagles to the 1960 N.F.L. Championship. Wisconsin lost, 42-37, but not before VanderKelen completed 33 passes and personally accounted for 406 yds. (TIME...
...land him, the Vikings had to outbid half a dozen other teams. Unbelievably, VanderKelen was a free agent, ignored in December's pro draft by everybody except the American Football League's no-account New York Titans (who chose him on the 21st round). When the pros finally did wake up after the Rose Bowl game, the N.F.L. Champion Green Bay Packers seemed to have the inside track. "I'm from Green Bay," VanderKelen said, "and every boy in town dreams of playing one day for the Packers." But pros play for pay, not for home-town...
Wisconsin, champion of the arrogant Big Ten, had won eight games, lost one (to Ohio State, 14-7), was ranked No. 2 in the country. Its passer was Ron VanderKelen, 23, a bean-tall senior from football-crazy Green Bay, who played only 90 seconds in his first two varsity years but was voted the Big Ten's Most Valuable Player this season. Its end was Pat Richter, 21, who caught 38 passes, made ten All-America teams. Wisconsin also felt it had a little score to settle. Six times this season, schools from...
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