Sport: The Drillmaster

In San Francisco's Kezar Stadium last week stocky, swarthy Vince Lombardi, late of Brooklyn, made himself the idol of the state of Wisconsin. With Halfback Paul Hornung scoring every point, Coach Lombardi's Green Bay Packers won a 13-0 victory over the San Francisco Forty-Niners. The win put the surprising Packers in first place in the National Football League's Western Conference, set them up for a finish fight with 1959's champion Baltimore Colts.

In theory, the Green Bay Packers should be binding their wounds among the N.F.L.'s cellar teams. The team has no great passer,...

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