Filante,

Your point 1.
I think easyrun meant intelligence was a vital ingredient to successful punting, not well educated [except in punting of course]. Some of the biggest dummies around are well educated.

Pittsburgh Phil only went through primary school, but he was obviously a very intelligent pro. punter.

Grollo the Italian [Grollo industries] was a pheasant who never got past grade 3 and if you look around, the world is full of very rich, intelligent but uneducated self made billionaires and our taxi's and restaurants have loads of well educated drivers, kitchen-hands and waiters who'll never be worth a bean:-))