December 03, 1956 | Volume 5, Issue 23

With the Olympic Games in full swing it was apparent to all around them in the Olympic Village that the brilliant athletes of the Hungarian team were bearing a fearful emotional burden. To explain...

San Francisco Bay sailors are a breed apart in their devotion to the choppiest, windiest and most unpredictable body of water in yachtdom

•A Walk in the SunNew Zealand athletic officials gulped large servings of crow as Norman Read, whom they had styled "not up to the standard," forced his inclusion on Olympic team by a brilliant...

The Giants and Bears, pro football's best, battle to a draw. Old Pro Chuck Conerly helps explain the deadlock

Frank Ivy (left), a tomato-faced graduate of the Bud Wilkinson school of split-T football, gave up an assistant's job at the University of Oklahoma in 1953 to take over the Edmonton Eskimos. Ivy...

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It has been a season that stayed amazingly true to form. Of the original "Eleven Best Elevens" selected by Herman Hickman before the season started, only five failed to retain this rating at the...

The bowl season opens Dec. 1, with Florida A&M and Tennessee A&I, both undefeated, meeting in the Orange Blossom Classic in Miami. Other bowl opponents: Mississippi Southern (7-1-1) vs....

For games of Saturday, Dec. 1

5—bottom, Morton Roberts9—Margaret BourkeWhite—LIFE14—Herald-Sun, John Dominis—LIFE, Herald-Sun15—Richard Meek, John G. Zimmerman, Richard Meek16—Kemsley Picture Service18—chart by Mathew Greene,...

'Navy beware' is the message to be read between the lines in what Earl Blaik has to say as he gets his Cadets ready to face the favored Middies in Philadelphia this Saturday in the 57th meeting of...

Endowed, as usual, with fast, hard-running backs, Army sticks to the ground for its bread-and-butter yardage. With the switch of Bob Kyasky from quarterback to fullback, the Cadets have added even...

Due largely to its fine linemen, Navy rates among the nation's best in both rushing and total defense. The Middies have no one runner as good as Army's Kyasky, but their fast backs plug away...

OLYMPICSOlympics opened at Melbourne with usual fanfare and galaxy of outstanding performances as early events bore out predictions of experts (SI, Nov. 19). U.S. was off and running in...

Affairs of state take a holiday as Ethiopia's Emperor Haile Selassie (left) proves to be as adept as his smiling host, Japan's Crown Prince Akihito, at unfamiliar sport of snaring ducks with a net...

Carolyn Jobes, attractive Mount Holyoke senior from Newtonville, Mass. and president of the school's water ballet, has been named 41st recipient of Sarah Streeter prize, given each year for good...

AUTO RACINGStirling Moss, England, 100-m. Australian Tourist Trophy, in Maserati 300S, Melbourne.

Rousseau's quaintly mustachioed soccer players

The most elegant showcase for the formal display of the horse undoubtedly is Toronto's Royal Agricultural Winter Fair. There, in a bunting-bedecked coliseum, some 600 American and Canadian horses...

DONALD A. QUARLESSecretary of the Air ForceThe All-America must have greater ability than others in his area. Publicity gives him a national reputation, but he rates it. The great Otto Graham...

One of the features distinguishing the swings of topnotch golfers, so goes one of the clichés of the locker room and the practice fairway, is the definite pause between completing the backswing...

For a week in December Nassau is the scene of a special merry-go-round of gaiety. Besides the customary Bahamian ingredients of bathing, water skiing and partying, there is the added stimulation...

On the eve of the season, on Nassau's sunny expanse where soon the sports cars would be blatting around the race course in high gear, the bars were for the most part still operating in low. But...

Before television made it unnecessary for boxing to attract a paying gate, matchmakers strove for a contrast in styles to entice the customers in—and there was never a better billing than "Boxer...

In Montana state fish and game officials war on the fibbing military, in Michigan a National Skeet Champion breaks an expensive bird, while in New Brunswick a deer-jacker shoots with strange result

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FOOTBALL: THE VIEW FROM STANFORDSirs:This is not a hot-stove letter—we're just plain hot about the article concerning John Brodie and Stanford's recent loss to UCLA (SI, Nov. 12). It seems that...

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The postman is your grocer: ham from Virginia, pheasant from New York or lobster from Maine

Putting shop talk aside, this group of top aeronautic executives and government officials held an informal meeting of the exclusive Golfing and Inside-Straight Society and played their own...

In his recently published memoirs, General Matthew B. Ridgway, one of the 25 judges who this month will make the final selections for SPORTS ILLUSTRATED'S first Silver Anniversary All-America,...