November 29, 1954 | Volume 1, Issue 16

In this country, 1954's active season of dirt and concrete, closed ovals and open roads, peeling treads and fading brakes has ended for almost all the racing drivers and the growing hosts of...

Ohio State turned on its historic tormentor, Michigan, Saturday and trounced the Wolverines 21-7. The victory gave the Buckeyes a Rose Bowl bid and gave the city of Columbus a night of wild...

The Trojans fought like Trojans, blunted the Bruin attack and held the score close for a good while. But the issue was seldom in doubt

•Navy vs. Army. The Middies' defense looks tougher. The Cadets offense is more explosive. A good offense over a good defense...ARMY.

'LET ME CALL YOU SWEETHEART'...

Few writers have better mastered the delicate art of interpreting other people's lives in their own language than Charles Samuels. It was he who collaborated with Ethel Waters several years ago to...

Herewith a salute from the editors to men and women of all ages who have fairly earned the good opinion of the world of sport, regardless of whether they have yet earned its tallest headlines

Underground explorers enter the dark mouth of a Kentucky cave. A tortuous and dangerous descent lies ahead, but spelunkers find the perils justified by the exotic scenery

The founder of the Association for the Protection of the Poor Put-upon Fight Fan welcomes new members and bids them join the cry for an overdue delousing

GEORGE BARTON, Minneapolis, Minn.Past President, NBA"Boxing will not survive unless the underworld characters who control the principal fighters are eliminated. Only J. Edgar Hoover can do this....

The President of the New York Touchdown Club says that the higher the scholastic standing of a college, the poorer the football team. Do you agree?

An outraged cry for an "agonizing reappraisal" comes from an expert on the two platoon game: Biggie Munn, athletic director of Michigan State

Texas hunters lure their deer by simulating bucks fighting over does

Yale undergraduates, grunting up and down the sacred sod of old campus, revive a tradition of the '90s with "First Annual Bladder-Ball Contest"

It was a purposeful part of the traditional preparations for Thanksgiving among Americans of the last century—and in some rural areas it still is

The international gallery of sun lovers who play on the Cote d'Azur are famous for their beauty and style of dress in the water and out

With sports moving indoors, the Weidmans—like most Americans—have to find a place to put their car. "Dominick" is one—sob!—answer

ECKIE'S LAST KICKWalter Eckersall played his last football game for the University of Chicago 48 years ago this week. The 150-pound quarterback drop-kicked five field goals for 20 of the 38 points...

The U.S. powerboat fraternity, growing ever larger, looks back on its liveliest season yet, with racing at a peak while everything from Gold Cup hydroplanes to the fast and sassy Class JU outboard...

David Livingston, 22, of Lake Village, Ark. NOA over-all high-point driver (37,774), world champion in Class C Hydro, Class C Service Hydro and Class C Service Runabout of Division I...

Inboard Division 48 CU. IN. HYDRO: Gillette Smith, Sept. 6 at Long Beach, Calif. 91 CU. IN. HYDRO: Sam Crooks, Feb. 6 at St. Petersburg, Fla. 135 CU. IN. HYDRO: J. C. Townsend, Aug. 1 at...

CAMBRIDGE, MASS.

Inspired by a funny movie, the British Vintage Sports Car Club and the Veteran Motor Car Club of America put on the first Anglo-American antique-car rally

SI's golf columnist answers a British critic of the U.S. scene with comments of his own

Cadets battle Midshipmen to 1-1 deadlock in rain and fog—with tickets for the traditional game truly nonexistent. P.S. Match was at soccer, U.S. sport's best-kept secret

Among the 14,692 spectators in Montreal's hockey arena one night last week sat a 21-year-old youngster named Charlie Hodge. Charlie was a goalie in the Montreal farm system, but he was just in the...

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1—Allan Barnett2—top right, Arthur Shay; bottom, Jack Birns3—A.P., Owen Johnson—Houston Post14—A.P.15—Ron Spillman—Black Star, I.N.P., Stew Fern16, 17—Ronny Jacques, A.P. (2)19—no...

A digest of last-minute reports from fishermen and other unreliable sources

The latest study of athlete's foot shows that the rule book on how to prevent the pesky fungus infection should be rewritten

No one, including the teams and business manager Herbert Hoover, was prepared for the first frenzied Stanford-California football game

Sirs:Any time Staffers Robert Creamer and Jerry Cooke want to come for dinner, they are welcome! That's the least I can offer the two gentlemen who so accurately portrayed Slippery Rock in SI,...