Word: wichard
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Dates: during 1971-1971
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...over charging linemen, the muscle to shake off tacklers and the poise to spring the big play under pressure. If only because so many pro clubs have weaknesses at quarter back, two other passers will also be drafted high: Pat Sullivan, Auburn, 6 ft.. 188 Ibs., and Gary wichard, C.W. Post, 6 ft. 2 in.. 217 Ibs. Many ∧B∧worry that Heisman Winner Sullivan is a mite too small to mix it up with the big boys. Noting the∧exceptionally long stride he takes when setting up one scout figures that Sullivan...
...skills mark him as an early round draft choice. Despite his small college background. Wichard (TIME, Dec. 6) has the size and the statistics (41 touchdown passes in three seasons) that the pros prize. RUNNING BACKS. Ed Marimiro, Cornell...
...Post opponents do not have to be told. To be sure, the Ithaca Bombers, Gettysburg Bullets and Kings Point Mariners are not the Minnesota Vikings, but Wichard's passing average of 228 yds. a game this season is impressive in any league. Ending the regular season with an 8-2 record, Wichard & Co. next week take on the Delaware Blue Hens, the top running team among small colleges, in the Boardwalk Bowl in Atlantic City...
Short Bullet. Scouts are impressed by the way Wichard runs the Pioneers' pro-style offense. Calling all of his plays at the line of scrimmage, he has developed the kind of radar-like sense for reading defenses that the pro teams prize. A classic drop-back passer, he is as accurate with the short bullet as he is with the long bomb. "If I need improvement in anything," says Wichard, "it would be in my ball handling. I can't spot anything I have to work on in my passing...
Neither can Jack Gotta, coach of the Ottawa Rough Riders in the Canadian Football League, who would like to draft Wichard but admits that "we'd have to offer him everything short of the Houses of Parliament and the Bank of Canada." The Baltimore Colts, eager to groom a replacement for Johnny Unitas and Earl Morrail, are also interested. For Gary, who once worried that the pros "wouldn't find me," the attention is reassuring. Now, all but certain of being snapped up in the first or second round of the pro draft, he says: "If they want...