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P: To win, the rugged Green Bay Packers knew they would have to foil the two grand old men of the gallant Philadelphia Eagles: Quarterback Norm Van Brocklin, 34, and Center-Linebacker Chuck Bednarik, 35, both talking about retiring after that day's championship play-off of the National Football League. But in the second period Van Brocklin coolly passed to Halfback Tommy McDonald for a 35-yd. touchdown. Then a crunching tackle by Bednarik put Packer Halfback Paul Hornung, the league's leading scorer, out of the game with a pinched nerve in his shoulder. When the Packers were driving for the last-second touchdown that might have won the game, there was Bednarik again, on the very last play, to wrestle Packer Fullback Jim Taylor to the ground on the Eagle 9-yd. line and preserve a 17-13 victory for Philadelphia.

P: He was only a third-stringer on the All-America teams of the A.P. and U.P.I., but Tulane's Halfback Tommy Mason (6 ft. 1 in., 195 lbs.) had the speed and strength to make the first team of the pro scouts' All-America (TIME, Dec. 12). Last week he was tapped by the newly formed Minnesota Vikings to become the first man chosen in the annual draft of college stars by the National Football League. Second man picked: Wake Forest's Norm Snead, a king-size (6 ft. 4 in., 208 lbs.) quarterback, who was picked by the Washington Redskins although he was snubbed altogether by the wire-service All-Americas.

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