College Football: Way up South

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

What do Y. A. Tittle, Bart Starr, Joe Willie Namath, Fran Tarkenton, Babe Parilli, George Blanda and Charlie Conerly all have in common? They all are, or were, masterly pro quarterbacks.

And they all played their college foot ball in the Southeastern Conference —the roughest, toughest, best college conference in football. The S.E.C. has ten regular members plus Georgia Tech, which technically classifies as an inde pendent, though it plays about half its games against conference schools. Of those eleven teams, five ranked last week among the top 13 colleges: Alabama...

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