Sport: Rumor No. 687

"This is only Rumor No. 687," pooh-poohed Sportswriter Harry Keck of Pittsburgh's Sun Telegraph last week. But the rumor he was talking about proved well founded. Dr. John Bain ("Jock") Sutherland, famed Pitt football coach, who was dumped into the open market a year ago after a row with Pitt educators, was thereafter rumored engaged almost as often as Brenda Frazier, had actually signed a contract: to coach the Brooklyn Dodgers, National League professional-football club.

First top-rank college coach to be taken on by professional football, canny, 50-year-old Jock Sutherland is said to be getting: 1) $12,000 a year ($1,000 less than...

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