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OUII f-J nulUIIIUII/(AP Radiophoto) (Continued on Page 19, Col. 3) (Continued on Page 19, Col. 4)• :Pro Gridders Touring VietnamSS Vietnam BureauSAIGON — Pro football play-ers representing 10 AFL-NFL teams arrived in Vietnam Tuesday for a 17-day tour of U.S. military hospitals, base camps andforward firebases.“We’re glad to do it,” said Jack Snow of the Los Angeles Rams. “This is the first time over for all of us and it’s great to see how many of the guys follow the game here.”Besides the handshaking, small talk and signing autographs, the football players have brought along a key attraction — color film highlights of the Super Bowl game. Divided into two touring groups, the players will visit every major unit in country.“We try to schedule these tours while football is still topical,” said Bill Granholm, a representative from the football commissioner’s office. “Of course,the last time I was here in 1968,we spent most of the time in our hotel watching the war.”Pre-Tet atmosphere was inescapable at Saigon’s 3rd Field Hospital, one of the first stops in the tour. Most of the beds were empty as patients had been evacuated to Japan. “We’re getting ready for Tet,” one nurse explained.But the players didn’t seem concerned as they circulated throughout the wards. The film received good reviews from a standing room crowd at one of the wards.Touring I and II Corps are Floyd Little, Denver Broncos; Tucker Frederiekson, New York Giants; Chuck Walker, St. Louis Cardinals; Paul Maguire, Buffalo Bills.Jim Nance, Boston Patriots; Norm Snead, Philadelphia Eagles; Dan Conners, Oakland Raiders; Len Rohde, San Francisco 49ers; and Chris Hanbur-ger, Washington Redskins, are in the second groups and will tour III arid IV Corps.Slated to visit military hospitals in the Pacific at the same time are: Jim Marshall, Minnesota Vikings; George Webster, Houston Oilers; Dave Whit-sell, New Orleans Saints, and Dick Butkus, Chicago Bears.
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Pacific Stars and Stripes
Tokyo, Tôkyô, JP
Fri, Jan 30, 1970
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