October 22, 1962 | Volume 17, Issue 17

SOFT SHOES FOR SONNY

•Darrell Royal, Texas coach, asked what he used to think about before the Texas game when he was an All-America quarterback at Oklahoma: "Self-preservation."

Golf-crazy Japan was the setting for the World Amateur tournament in which the American team, lovingly served by its tiny caddies, won again

Two great Pacific storms, clashing over the California coast, poured a record rainfall down upon San Francisco, penning the World Series rivals restlessly in their rooms and turning star-crossed...

Life can be hard when you quarterback a young pro club. Tex Maule describes, color photographs show what can happen when Minnesota's Fran Tarkenton drops back to pass.

When Exurbanite Artist Austin Briggs landed in Boise en route to join an elk hunt he wore his best London suit. A Chevalier du Tastevin, Briggs gamely gulped Thunderbird wine and coffee that...

Tradition to the contrary, not all fierce and ancient rivalries are confined to the short, chill afternoons of late November. As the huge, intensely partisan crowds that packed into stadiums at...

Ohio State over Northwestern. Not even Tom Myers can pull this one through.

Jack Faulkner, the youngest pro coach, has his American League team in first place—and the town in love with him

East wigwags, 'Please don't lead clubs,' but West understands that a signal is not necessarily an order and finds a way to set the contract

Some reflections on the World Series and the season just past lead to a surprising discovery concerning the American League

BASEBALL—THE WORLD SERIES found Giants losing three to Yankees, Yankees losing two to Giants and both teams losing to the weather. The fifth game was postponed one day in New York, and then the...

21—Jim Vincent-Oregon Journal22—Bob Peterson48-50—Lee Balterman56—Photo Associates, Inc.81—Al J. Herman, Pete Waldmeir, Cry-Dun, Bernard B. Brown, Gene's Photo Shop

Johnny White, 29, of Warren, Mich., who races a 283-cubic-inch Offenhauser on the Midwest's International Motor Contest Association circuit, roared to a big win in the last race of the season,...

BEAR BRADSHAWSirs:In the interest of fair play and good sportsmanship I would like to thank you for publishing the article exposing the chain-gang tactics of those two mule drivers masquerading as...

Fencing, once considered a comic imitation of sport essentially practiced by the Three Musketeers and Douglas Fairbanks, has developed a new public acceptance in the past 10 years. Fencers have...

Al Davis was known as a mean fighter in the ring and in the streets—and his final fight was the meanest of all