January 23, 1956 | Volume 4, Issue 4

Hockey is Canada's national sport, and the Montreal Canadiens, with the season's top team, are the apple of the Dominion's eye

Feb. 11, Indiana vs. Mich. State at Bloomington, Ind. Hawaiian Bill Woolsey, one of world's top middle-distance stars, leads Indiana team which could be hurt by eligibility problems against...

At 7 A.M. Tuesday, January 3 SPORTS ILLUSTRATED began to roll off the presses at its regular time to start its regular way to newsstands and subscribers. Many of our readers have written to...

GOLFING IN THE CROSBY MANNER

Rocky always was a good boy. He had good luck. God bless! We hope now he feels good and he enjoys all the hard work he does. Honest to God, I wish everybody will have a little kind of luck. When I...

•My reach is only 68 inches. That's my disadvantage, so I've had to develop a style of my own. It's peculiar. I get low, bob and weave, crouch and move in, come forward all the time.... I'm not a...

As our canoe glided down the lazy-winding Toledi one evening, with my Indian guide Simmo at the paddle, the arrowy wake of a Musquash, or a muskrat, broke the reflected splendor of heaven into...

In the Dec. 19th issue of SI the editors announced with pride the publication of the first in a series of newly discovered articles by a great naturalist and author of two generations ago, Dr....

C—clear water; SH—slightly high; FG—fishing good; FF—fishing fair; FP—fishing poor; OG—outlook good; OF—outlook fair; OVG—outlook very good.

Morality hangs over the City of Toronto like smog over Los Angeles. On Sunday no newspaper publishes there, the movie houses are closed and it is not possible, if one were so minded, to brighten...

SI's first boxing columnist, Budd Schulberg, whose writings in this magazine won him the Notre Dame award last spring, recently moved to Florida where he is busy with book and motion picture...

BOXING

EAST

George Mikan, voted player of the half century before he retired in 1954 to become general manager of Minneapolis, took "old No. 99" out of mothballs, returned to try to bolster fading Lakers,...

The part played by the left arm—the controlling factor in the good golf swing—starts at address. It should be neither stiff, rigid, nor locked in joint at the elbow but it should be comfortably...

Two facts most golfers were fairly sure of before were made clearer than ever during last week's Crosby tournament. First, Cary Middlecoff is certainly one of the game's finest "mudders." And...

All normal methods having failed, resigned opponents were prepared to invoke extraterrestrial assistance last week as the only remaining hope of stopping the University of San Francisco before it...

[This article contains a table. Please see hardcopy of magazine or PDF.]

Although it may look like a scene out of Kismet, the extravaganza above is actually a first look at what the American man at play will be wearing this summer. On a wave of color (firecracker red...

LS—depth of snow on lower slopes; US—depth of snow on upper slopes; TD—total snowfall during the week days; TW—total snowfall during the weekend; CD—crowd during the week; CW—crowd during the...

COURTESY AND SAFETY GO HAND IN HAND IN SKIING. HERE ARE SOME RULES OF ETIQUETTE TO BE OBSERVED WITH SPECIAL CARE

GEN. MARK CLARK, Charleston, S.C.President, The Citadel"Not in the near future. Football has too strong a hold on the West and some other sections. We at Citadel have our problems. We won't accept...

Have sports influenced fashions? If so, in what way?

[TV]TV [NETWORK RADIO]NETWORK RADIO:

2—I.N.P.4—U.P., A.P.5—U.P. (2), I.N.P.10-12—drawings by Ajay17—Hy Peskin19—George Weber21—Fons Iannelli22, 23—Fred Lyon from Rapho-Guillumette28-31—Mark Kauffman40—Jay B. Leviton-Black Star;...

Sirs:Thanks for telling us why Georgia Tech won (SI, Jan. 9) rather than, like many newspapers in this area, why Pittsburgh lost the Sugar Bowl game.DAVE LANEYFort Wayne, Ind.

For landing his ski-equipped Piper Super Cub on "impossible" snow fields and glaciers of the Swiss Alps and rescuing more than 150 trapped and injured mountaineers and skiers (including 20 in the...

Italian Olympic officials have the weather jitters. Long-awaited snow came to Cortina last week, only to be followed by a sirocco that caused a thaw to set in. As a strategic reserve, the worried...