Next Week

Pro Football is back and, says Tex Maule, the game has gone back: coaches are obsessed with not making mistakes rather than dreaming up new ways to make touchdowns. Our annual issue also contains a dozen pages of scouting reports; a gallery of old pros, as seen through Neil Leifer's lens; a look at grizzled 49er Charlie Krueger by Morton Sharnik; and John Underwood's revealing portrayal of Don Shula. Plus news stories on Forest Hills, the baseball pennant races, the UCLA-Nebraska football game and the World Swimming Championships in Belgrade, Yugoslavia.