December 10, 1962 | Volume 17, Issue 24

BASEBALL—The minor league meetings in Rochester triggered a major league swap shop as everybody else's players seemed to look good. Most notably: Boston's AL batting titleist Pete Runnels to...

24, 25—David Moore-Black Star28—Joe Clark37, 38—James Drake39—Phil Bath, James Drake40—James Drake62—Neil Leifer70—James Drake77—Mario R. Marino, Tony Spino-TIME, Arthur Siegel-TIME, Pictorial,...

Nancy Davis, 20, a sophomore al Pasadena City College who was faced with the unusual choice (to fulfill a gym assignment) of doing a book report or trying out for queen of Pasadena's Tournament of...

BAMA BEARSirs:Prejudice and bias are the only reasons for your article A Rough Day for the Bear (Nov. 26). Last year's Holt-Graning incident, unfortunate though it was, is no reason to claim that...

THE FORLORN LEFT

•Dick Buechler, Xavier University tackle, on that school's 6-4 season under first-year Coach Ed Biles: "We would have presented Coach Biles with an undefeated season, but we didn't think he was...

Southern Cal survived a giant dose of Hollywood hoopla to crush Notre Dame and keep its No. 1 ranking

The temperature in the grandstand at the British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Perth, Australia climbed to 103.7°, the hottest for a November day in 49 years. But the shirtless spectators with...

When a Briton rides a motorbike over farm land, plowed fields, hills, ditches, cart tracks and small cliffs on a cold, wet, rainy day, he calls it, with characteristic understatement,...

Sports Illustrated presents its selection of basketball's best and tells why they deserve to be ranked in the order below

We know our weaknesses from last season," says Cincinnati Coach Ed Jucker, "and we intend to correct them." Weaknesses? Jucker's team lost exactly two games. It won a championship in the toughest...

Bradley, at Bradley, Jan. 17Wichita, at Wichita, Feb. 16St. Louis, at St. Louis, March 2

Right from the beginning there was a strong suspicion that things would be different at Duke when Vic Bubas took over as basketball coach. Well founded, these suspicions. A young man with ideas...

West Virginia, at Duke, Jan. 26North Carolina, at North Carolina, Feb. 2Wake Forest, at Wake Forest, Feb. 6

Bending creakily to one knee beside four glittering NCAA championship trophies, Kentucky's Adolph Rupp raised his right hand, spread five fingers and smiled like a fat, happy wildcat as...

Not long after Mississippi State University hired James (Babe) McCarthy to coach its basketball team, students started bringing cowbells to the field house. As State victories became more and more...

St. Louis, at St. Louis, Dec. 31Mississippi State, at State, Feb. 11Auburn, at Kentucky, Feb. 23

Houston, at New Orleans, Dec. 28Auburn, at Auburn, Jan. 5Kentucky, at Mississippi State, Feb. 11

One of the pastimes of high school boys on cold winter nights in the state of West Virginia is sitting around the radio listening to the Mountaineers run down some unfortunate basketball rival....

George Ireland is a calm man. While his Loyola team flails away at opponents' baskets, he contemplates the action serenely. And when the urge comes to leap up and shake a fist at erring officials...

Ohio State, at Ohio State, Dec. 8Oregon State, at Lexington, Ky., Dec. 21Duke, at Duke, Jan. 26

Bowling Green, at Bowling Green, Feb. 16Houston, at Houston, Feb. 23Wichita, at Chicago Stadium, March 2

Dowling Green's Harold Anderson is one of the old pessimistic school. "We could use a little more size," he says, artfully avoiding the subject of Nate Thurmond. Thurmond was listed as 6 feet 10...

Consider the situation of Coach John Benington: so many good players he is seriously considering platooning them if he "can think of three catchy names"; seven returning lettermen; nine players...

Western Kentucky, at W. Kentucky, Dec. 15DePaul, at DePaul, Jan. 28St. John's, at New York, Jan. 31

Kentucky, at St. Louis, Dec. 31Cincinnati, at Cincinnati, Feb. 2Cincinnati, at St. Louis, March 2

Here it is the middle of the football season and fans are already beating down the doors to buy basketball tickets," complains Oregon State's excitable athletic business manager, Jim Barrett....

Not far from the football stadium on the University of Illinois' sprawling flatland campus is a huge, unfinished structure, circular and silver and looking like it belongs at somebody's world...

West Virginia, at Lexington, Ky., Dec. 21Stanford, at Stanford, Jan. 11Stanford, at Stanford, Jan. 12

Ohio Stale, at Illinois, Jan. 7Cincinnati, at Chicago Stadium, Jan. 26Indiana, at Indiana, Feb. 16

Coach Howie Dallmar would have you believe that his team looks "sort of dead, and in more ways than one." First, it is deadpanned—"They all have the same featureless features," says Dallmar. And...

Fred Taylor cut his first practice session short this fall and took the Ohio State team out to dinner. Perhaps Taylor, who is accustomed to holding victory banquets at season's end, had the uneasy...

Oregon State, at Stanford, Jan. 12UCLA, at Stanford, Feb. 22UCLA, at UCLA, Mar. 8

West Virginia, at Ohio State, Dec. 8Wichita, at Wichita, Dec. 29Illinois, at Illinois, Jan. 7

Wichita's Ralph Miller thinks of basketball as a simple game. Feed your players plenty of vitamins (his get two pills a day), teach them a couple of basic shots, then let them follow their noses....

In the past five years Ned Wulk's fast-break teams have won Arizona State a field house full of fans who didn't care how stiff their necks got watching the hectic action, plus inestimable numbers...

Cincinnati, at Cincinnati, Jan. 5St. Louis, at St. Louis, Feb. 9Cincinnati, at Wichita, Feb. 16

Kansas State, at Lawrence, Kans., Dec. 15Wichita, at Wichita, Dec. 17Minnesota, at Arizona Slate, Dec. 22

Just as the Houston team was about to take the floor for the second half of a game against Texas Christian last season the piercing voice of the team trainer, directed to the student manager,...

No sooner would a Kansas State player put the ball in the basket this fall than it would fly out again in an unpredictable direction. It was a plot, of course, and fiendish in its way. The device...

Mississippi State, at New Orleans, Dec. 28Minnesota, at Minnesota, Dec. 31Cincinnati, at Cincinnati, Jan. 2

St. Louis, at Kansas State, Dec. 8Cincinnati, at Kansas State, Dec. 14Arizona State, at Lawrence, Kans., Dec. 15

We are going to try to get the break and run like we did in the old days," says UCLA's scholarly Johnny Wooden, an assertion that must puzzle some observers. Granted, West Coast fans are used to...

Mountains are the rage in Colorado—the loftier the better—and the residents get pretty ecstatic about their snow-capped peaks. But on the plains around Fort Collins, an area shortchanged when it...

UCLA, at Colorado State, Dec. 8Texas Western, at Texas Western, Dec. 21Utah State, at Utah State, Jan. 19

Colorado State, at Colorado State, Dec. 8Stanford, at Stanford, Feb. 9Stanford, at Stanford, Feb. 22

Past the finish line of the rugged two-mile Indiana University cross-country course last fall came—who? The basketball team? It was the basketball team, all right. But that's Indiana for you. They...

One of the hardest-working men in basketball is Raymond Meyer, who sets up schedules, arranges transportation for the team, finds hotel accommodations, counsels high-strung athletes—does, in fact,...

Kansas State, at Kansas State, Dec. 21Illinois, at Illinois, Feb. 4Ohio State, at Indiana, March 9

Indiana, at Indiana, Jan. 26Marquette, at Marquette, Feb. 16Louisville, at Louisville, Feb. 27

These teams don't rank with the top 20—many of them are nowhere near it—but with their combination of talent and training they occasionally are going to defeat the elite

Basketball's classic situation is the moment when two players—one with the ball, the other wanting it—are poised against each other in a pure test of individual ability. Coaches call this a...

In any other year the Detroit Lions would be leading their division. Now, in the heyday of the Green Bay Packers, they are second, having lost two games by a total of five points

If despite a smooth, strong swing you arc not getting the distance you feel you deserve, it may well be because your hip-turn through the hitting zone is too restricted. I have made two...

The air was thick with strategy when Army met Navy in Philadelphia, but it was the brilliant play of Roger Staubach that carried the day

As the 1962 season ended Saturday, USC—an easy victor over Notre Dame—kept its position as the nation's best team (see page 20). Mississippi won, too. Along with Dartmouth, these were the only...

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This distinguished panel undertook the difficult assignment of choosing, from an impressive roster of 60 nominees, the 25 football lettermen who merited this year's Silver All-America award. The...

The article by Alfred Wright on page 84 deals with a man popularly called "Whizzer" when he graduated from the University of Colorado in 1937. Exactly 25 years later he is properly called "Mr....

Christmas is in the air, and again stores are jammed with children's games for Dad to play with. Here are a few of the better ones, some new, some not, but all entertaining.

...and other greedy tips on a trend among sportsmen that seems, distressingly, to be sweeping the country