In preparing for NFL draft, which team will blink first?

Daily Breeze | April 21, 2005 | Copyright

It's apocryphal, a tall tale really, but it comes to mind every year at NFL draft time.

When he was coaching juggernaut teams at Ohio State, the legendary Paul Brown was asked how he knew which players to recruit.

Brown explained he simply drove through the state's farmlands and whenever he saw a high school-age kid plowing the fields, he would stop and ask for directions into town.

If the farm boy pointed the way with his finger, Brown drove off and kept searching for prospective linebackers, guards and tackles. But if the farm boy pointed with the plow, Brown offered him a scholarship on the ...

Read all of this article with a FREE trial to HighBeam Research

Related newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles from HighBeam Research

(Including press releases, facts, information, and biographies)

Yellow Fever Acquired in Amazonas, Brazil.(Report)
Magazine article from: Infectious Disease Alert ; Yellow Fever Acquired in Amazonas...IgM and IgG titers for yellow fever were negative. However, serum...tested positive for yellow fever by polymerase chain reaction...pretravel evaluation, yellow fever vaccine, or malaria prophylaxis...no one else became ill with ...
Yellow Fever Acquired in Amazonas, Brazil.
Newspaper article from: Travel Medicine Advisor ; ...His IgM and IgG titers for yellow fever were negative. However, serum...tested positive for yellow fever by polymerase chain reaction...pretravel evaluation, yellow fever vaccine, or malaria prophylaxis...no one else became ill with fevers. Eight (53%) of the travelers...
Yellow fever control in Cameroon: Where are we now and where are we going?(Research article)
Magazine article from: BMC Medicine ; ...Peter M Ndumbe [4] Background Yellow fever, which has caused devastating...activities involve the prevention of yellow fever outbreaks (through routine vaccination...of the plan. In 2004, routine yellow fever vaccination with one dose of the...
Yellow Fever Vaccine.
Magazine article from: Emerging Infectious Diseases ; ...facilities for distribution of yellow fever vaccines in the United States and...During the 1990s, isolation of yellow fever virus was reported in persons with...not meet the case definition of yellow fever (8). Air travel by such persons...
Yellow fever: A deadly disease poised to kill again.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Journal of Clinical Investigation ; Yellow fever A deadly disease poised to kill again...milestone in the history and control of yellow fever. Chapter six describes research on weapons...portion of the chapter is devoted to yellow fever, and I believe that Dickerson's arguments...
Yellow Fever Vaccination.(Report)
Magazine article from: Infectious Disease Alert ; Yellow Fever Vaccination Special Report The current...America and Africa that lie within the yellow-fever endemic zone should be vaccinated regardless...destination-specific risk for exposure to yellow fever. However, yellow fever vaccination...
Fatal Yellow Fever in a U.S. Traveler to Venezuela.
Magazine article from: Infectious Disease Alert ; Fatal Yellow Fever in a U.S. Traveler to Venezuela Abstract...occurs in the face of a resurgence of yellow fever over the last two decades..sup.2 Yellow fever is currently endemic in sub-Saharan...
Jungle Yellow Fever, Rio de Janeiro.(Brazil)(Statistical Data Included)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Emerging Infectious Diseases ; To the Editor: Yellow fever control in Brazil through vaccination...sample was collected January 11 for yellow fever diagnosis. Reverse transcription...who became ill in the travel group, yellow fever IgM serologic testing was performed...
The Fight Against Yellow Fever: A Global Mobilisation for Sub-Saharan Africa.
PR Newswire Europe ; ...Mali, to Organise Fight Against Yellow Fever in Central and Western Africa Faced...aventis and sanofi pasteur in this Yellow Fever Programme shows that the Group...major efforts underway to increase yellow fever vaccination and introduce it into...
Pathogens & People: Yellow fever: Long forgotten, but not gone
Newspaper article from: Capital (Annapolis) ; ...years after solving the riddle of yellow fever in Cuba. As with Teddy Roosevelt...experiments that convincingly showed yellow fever was transmitted by mosquitoes...breeding grounds quickly ended yellow fever outbreaks in Cuba and then in the...

Find more facts and information related to the article "In preparing for NFL draft, which team will blink ..."