Because of the large number of varsity football teams in the United States, and the regular season of only twelve games per season, colleges and universities play in their own leagues.

There are eleven divisional leagues and five independent teams in the Div-1 division, and the top six leagues in the eleven divisions are the "escort leagues" that automatically qualify for their respective college bowls.

And Leland Stanford University Jr., which Bill went to on this trip, is the Pacific Ten University Alliance, which is referred to as Pac-10 and pronounced Parker Ten.

(The change of Parker Ten to Parker Twelve was in 2011 and is not mentioned here.) ）

The earliest history of the Pacific 10 League dates back to 1915, when the Pacific Coast Alliance, or PCC, was established at a conference in Portland.

In the beginning, there were only four schools in PCC, including the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Washington, the University of Oregon, and Oregon State University.

Later, six schools, including Washington State University, Leland Stanford University Jr., University of Southern California, University of Idaho, University of Montana, and UCLA, joined one after another, and PCC expanded into a ten-school alliance.

In 1968, the AAWU of the PCC reorganization was renamed the Pacific Eight-University Alliance, and ten years later, the University of Arizona and Arizona State University joined the Eight-University Alliance, so this small league was renamed the Pacific Ten Alliance, which is Pac-10, or Parker Ten.

At this time, the members of the Park Ten were: UCLA, Stanford, USC, University of Washington, Berkeley, Washington State University, two universities of Oregon, and two universities of Arizona.

Although the Parker 10 varsity teams are all Div-1 teams, they are still divided into the best, with UCLA, Stanford, and the University of Washington being the strongest, and these three are also the famous West Coast top three.

Many Chinese readers often think that Stanford University was mediocre before the rise of Silicon Valley, just a regional university, and there is no such thing as 80 years of obscurity before it turned around overnight. In fact, this has entered the absolute misunderstanding of Chinese thinking, that is, not to make achievements in sports as improper achievements.

The educational fairness of Xia Guo is often manifested by the counterattack of small-town problem-solvers, and the United States has a similar situation, that is, in sports, small-town players can also pass layers of screening, gradually enter the professional league, and then get a lot of salary, and successfully achieve a class jump.

Stanford University is one of the representatives of traditional sports powerhouses. Among the more than 1,600 professional players in the NFL league, the number of alumni of Stanford University has maintained the order of thirty or forty all year round, and in the eighties, the men's basketball and women's basketball teams were the top few in the country. For the rest of the niche sports such as golf, Stanford has several that have consistently ranked first in the country.

The strength of the Stanford men's football team naturally attracted a lot of money, and even in the 80s, it was conservatively estimated that the annual school team earned more than 20 million US dollars.

So Bill and Bromwell were placed in a big hotel by the school, and the entire five-star hotel was chartered to be used as a dormitory for summer camp students.

On the first day of the summer camp, 10 uniform-style buses brought more than 220 invited outstanding high school players to the "bowl" of the Stanford University campus, which is the football field.

"Please choose your own jersey and number, and after registering your name, we will start one by one."

More than a dozen staff members wearing red letters on a white background pulled their throats to let the chaotic students start to accept management.

Red and white are also the signature colors of the Stanford varsity team, and in the selection of jerseys, Beal naturally chose the usual number 88.

The whole summer camp is actually a physical test draft camp, and the main thing to do is to conduct physical tests, and the items that attract the most attention from head coaches and team managers are naturally 40-yard sprints, cone barrel switchback runs, 225-pound bench presses, deadlifts, squats and other events.

The technical position is focused on the 40-yard sprint and the cone-barrel switchback, while the forward position requires good bench press, deadlift and squat.

Before the physical test began, team manager Jerry Pence gave a brief speech welcoming the high school students to summer camp and gave an overview of the history and achievements of the Stanford boys' football varsity team, before moving quickly into the official program.

Naturally, the best in their respective districts came to camp, and at least on the first morning, Bill felt the pressure.

Of the more than 220 high school students, more than 110 are in technical positions, that is, quarterbacks, running backs, end forwards, and defensive guards.

Because of the single event and sufficient time, the coaches, who numbered more than 30 people, chose to measure only one person in a single measurement, that is, under the gaze of everyone, to exert their sprint ability on the demarcated 40-yard track.

Team managers and coaches sat in chairs on the sidelines and watched the high school students perform.

"Martin Kent from Tennessee, quarterback ......"

The staff briefed the coaches on key information such as the test player's name, state of birth, and location.

The quarterbacks tested first, the pressure on Bill from the core of these teams is not too big, after all, there are not many double quarterbacks, and the ability to receive and pass, the ability to move and the intelligence of people who play this position are more important, so the 40-yard sprint results are generally not high, mostly kept at about five seconds, but there are also very demonic players who can run into four seconds and five.

Then there are the running backs, the fastest players in the entire offensive group.

"Four seconds thirty-eight, Arthur Bryan's sprint time is four seconds thirty-eight."

This is the best high school student among the running backs, and correspondingly, he looks the most petite. He was only 1.8 meters tall and weighed no more than 180 pounds.

After the running back came the cornerback, and since the NFL changed the rules in '78, full-time cornerback players have also begun to be lighter in order to ensure more speed.

Among the more than 20 cornerbacks, there are even some who have run the top time of 4.35 seconds.

Then there is the close end TE, a position of only about a dozen, and Bill Ferrari's 4.89 is quite low, according to his own statistics, only four are slower than him.

The coaches didn't shake their heads at Bill because of this, though, and in fact, a lot of them were interested in Mr. Ferrari's size.

'You're already fast at this point, and if you're doing well in terms of strength, I'll recommend you to the manager for a specific assessment of you.'

After Bill had run forty yards, Hayman Hawke, the head of the offensive tactical coach, took the initiative to come over and chat with Bill.

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