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...Eastern Champion Browns were bad. They had Jimmy Brown, who is merely the best running back in the history of football. They had Quarterback Frank Ryan, who 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...
...early in the third quarter, 79,544 fans in Cleveland's Municipal Stadium saw Lou ("The Toe") Groza boot a 43-yd. field goal, and suddenly the floodgates opened. Swinging wide to the left, Fullback Brown took a pitchout, cut back, and churned 46 yds. to the Baltimore 18. (Murmured one spectator: "Put a cape on him, and he's Superman.") Quarterback Ryan was a little nervous about calling the next play-a tricky "hook-post" pass to Flanker Gary Collins behind the goal posts. On the same play five times this season he had bounced the ball...
...Baltimore was double-teaming Cleveland's Split End Paul Warfield, so Collins had only one man to beat. Midway in the third quarter, he did a fancy little two-step, left Colt Defender Jerry Logan sprawled on the turf, gathered in a picture pass from Ryan for 42 yds. and another TD. Lou Groza boosted the score to 20-0 with his second field goal. In the fourth quarter, Collins added the final fillip-reaching back over his shoulder to pull in another wonderful 41-yd. pass at the 10, shrugging Defensive Halfback Bobby Boyd off his shoulders, staggering...
...halftime lead. Then they hung on for dear life, intercepting two passes, stopping one Alabama drive at the 1-ft. line, as 'Bama's great Quarterback Joe Namath, playing with an injured knee, frantically filled the air with footballs, completing 18 out of 37 for 255 yds...
...course, much like a slalom ski run. Judges deducted points for such infractions as "bottom turning"-cutting in front of another surfer knifing down the wave. The surprise winner: Honolulu Schoolboy Fred Hemmings Jr., 18, who became surfing's youngest world champion ever by riding three waves 600 yds. or so, tucking himself out of sight in "the pipe" (the fastest, most dangerous part of the wave, where it rolls over and down) to gain speed, sliding around the buoys without losing "the green,"-the unbroken portion of the wave...