SPORT: Merry Christman

Of the 15,000 or more college players who put on a show for U. S. football fans last Saturday, most fabulous was big, blond Paul Christman, quarterback for Missouri. In New York City's Yankee Stadium, Christman's hipper-dipper passes and lunging plunges were the margin between victory and defeat over New York University. But Christman is more than a good footballer, he is an extraordinary one: to him football is just a game.

On the football field "Passin' Paul" is as nonchalant as a co-ed over a cocktail. When he darts to the right,...

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