Playboy's 2006 Pigskin Preview

September, 2006

In 1957 Ike was a year into his second term as president. You could buy a pack of cigarettes or a gallon of gas for a quarter. Collier's magazine had just folded, and its tradition of selecting a college football All-America team, derived directly from the original All-America selections Walter Camp had conceived in 1889, was about to end with it.An enterprising Hugh Hefner, only three years into publishing playboy, spotted an opportunity. He hired Collier's football writer Francis Wallace, and...

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