Current Week & What's Ahead

Tony Trabert has made up his mind to turn pro (see page 30). Strong probability: Aussie whiz kids Lew Hoad and Ken Rose-wall will announce similar decisions soon.

Michigan looked very much like the country's best football team as the Wolverines beat Army, 26-2. The Michigan rooting section's cry of " Rose Bowl, Rose Bowl" can now be heard coast-to-coast.

Nail, a previously undistinguished long shot, became the second gray colt in three years to win the Belmont Futurity, traditional fall test for 2-year-olds. The other: Native Dancer, who also showed up well on television.

National Olympic Day, to be celebrated Saturday, Oct. 22, will give spectators at football games and other sports events a chance to dig into their pockets, contribute toward the cost of sending the U.S. team to the 1956 Games.

Vienna this week welcomed home its world-famed but wandering Lipizzan horses, rescued from Russian collectivization in the fading days of World War II by General Georgie Patton's tankers. Forced into a 10-year odyssey, the aristocrats of the horse world moved back in after the Red army pulled out of Austria.

Ronnie Knox's action of the week: eight minutes at tailback for UCLA, during which he threw seven passes, completed five for 56 yards and a touchdown. Harvey Knox's words of the week: Ronnie has already received three pro football offers, but "I'm grooming Ronnie to become an actor or writer in the movies."

Ducks Unlimited happily noted earlier predictions of a bumper waterfowl season were already beginning to come true: freezing weather in northern Canada has touched off an impressive southward migration of ducks and geese.