January 07, 1957 | Volume 6, Issue 1

The problem of getting from one place to another in the least possible time is one which SPORTS ILLUSTRATED'S third annual Sportsman of the Year, Olympic Champion Bobby Morrow, has solved to...

•And Away We Go The indoor track season should be one of the best, with Ron Delany, a restored Dave Sime (see opposite page) and Hungary's László Tábori. Tábori's countryman, Sándor Iharos, who...

Nearly any instant of action frozen by a camera might have sufficed to show the immense superiority of the New York Giants as they won the world professional football championship from the Chicago...

SENATOR WILLIAM F. KNOWLANDMinority LeaderU.S. SenateNo. The alumni, the general public and the universities are geared to the present scale and tempo of football. A country-wide de-emphasis would...

Should there be a height limit in basketball?

Hungarian Olympians, looking for new homes, reach the U.S. after the flight from Melbourne

The parade through the Italian village of Cortina, in the white-capped Dolomites, opened the VII Winter Games and launched the Olympic competitions of 1956 which were to be held in three countries...

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YEAR-END HONORSBobby Morrow, Texas' Olympic sprint champion: SPORTS ILLUSTRATED Sportsman of the Year (see page 6). Mickey Mantle, New York Yankees' golden boy: Associated Press male athlete of...

Sammy Giammalva, a bold 22-year-old Houston swinger, revived ebbing U.S. tennis hopes with exuberant Davis Cup performance at Adelaide, Australia, although relentless Aussies schneidered U.S. team...

Mud-bathed gridders grapple in NAIA Aluminum Bowl at Little Rock as the ball squirts from Montana State's Back Dave Alt. State and St. Joseph's of Indiana sluiced to scoreless tie.

BOATING Henry Lauterbach, Portsmouth. Va., Orange Bowl Regatta International Grand Prix, in 266-cu.-in. hydroplane, Miami Beach.

A happy-go-lucky Texan won the hearts of the Aussie fans in a losing cause as the U.S. Davis Cup team met DOOM DOWN UNDER

All over the country the sound of rubber on hardwood rang in Basketball 1957 as collegians celebrated the season with a spectacular round of holiday tournaments

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New York's $2 bettor is the racing fan who gives most and receives least. Now a hard-hitting report warns of DANGER AHEAD

When the goal posts went down before the rush of delirious New York fans, the scoreboard read, incredibly, "Giants 47 Bears 7." On the frozen, marblelike surface of Yankee Stadium the players...

Georgia Tech's scholarly quarterback gave both Pittsburgh and Gator Bowl fans a 21-14 lesson in how football should be played

The classic look of spectator sports clothes reappears in modern fabrics which add 1957's ease of upkeep to the 1930s look of the few lucky rich

1—Walter Daron5—bottom, Joern Gerdts8—John G. Zimmerman10—Jerry Cooke, Hy Peskin, David Bier, Arthur Daley11—Bill Young, A.P., Art Shay, Richard Meek, I.N.P.12—Hy Peskin, U.S. Olympic Committee,...

SPOT TO SKI: SUGAR BOWL

SO—season opened (or opens); SC—season closed (or closes).C—clear water; D—water dirty or roily; M—water muddy.N—water at normal height; SH—slightly high; H—high; VH—very high; L—low; R—rising;...

Beset by rising costs, many clubs are in trouble. Herewith a survey of expenses and ways to meet them—including gambling

The exact origin of the Calcutta is not known, but it probably derives from a wagering system devised by British army officers in India to add a little spice to local sports events. As far as...

No one had ever pitched a no-hit game in World Series competition before. No one had pitched a perfect game in the major leagues since 1922. And no one was noticing Don Larsen of the New York...

Four weeks after the baseball season opened, Sal Maglie, 39, turned in his suit to the Cleveland Indians, who had found little for him to do, and headed back to the old National League—and the...

Pat Keller McCormick was in fourth place when the final night's competition in the platform dive began at Melbourne's Olympic swimming pool. Her last dive was a running forward one-and-a-half...

In 1956 Joe Louis was worse off than a man on a treadmill. The penalties and interest on his unpaid income tax for 1946-51 swelled the debt to well over a million dollars. In a desperate attempt...

I like to imagine that a railroad track runs from the spot where I'm standing right up to the green. My feet are planted squarely on one rail of the track, and the ball is positioned on the other...

STATE JOURNAL

Thanks to Cecil Rhodes and the scholarships he founded, this blond six-footer, currently ranked No. 1 among U.S. tennis players, is a student at Oxford, where he lends his court talents to the...