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TABLE OF CONTENTS
October 23, 1967 | Volume 27, Issue 17
October 23, 1967 A WORLD ELSEWHERE
October 23, 1967 •Norm Van Brocklin, former Minnesota Vikings coach: "There's no tougher way to make easy money than pro football."
There was little to choose between the Colts and the Rams as they traded scores in the first big interdivisional game of the year, but Baltimore—even minus seven starters—was a little bit more equal
Burning to end Richard Petty's stock-car blitz for Plymouth, Ford went all out in Carolina—only to be beaten by a Chrysler sibling
Did you see the news the other day? The President, the Times said, urged Republicans in Congress to put "nation above party." The Soviet foreign minister was reported "confident of accord" on new...
October 23, 1967 Alabama and Tennessee, teams that have dueled furiously for the past two years, meet with their national prestige and the leadership of the Southeastern Conference at stake.
October 23, 1967 The pros are on the road somewhere—in Boston, say, where the locker rooms are pungent reminders of 19th century shantytowns, where Sam and K. C. Jones dressed through eight championships in a...
October 23, 1967 THE NBA
October 23, 1967 Now that Wilt Chamberlain has decided not to acquire the Los Angeles franchise in the ABA or become a split end for the Jets or the heavyweight champion of the world but instead to play basketball...
Basketball is the simplest of team games. There is a ball and there is a basket, and the object is to get the ball into the basket more times than the other guy. You don't have to put on lots of...
October 23, 1967 It took a while for the Warriors to adjust to the change from Alex Hannum, the tactician, to Bill Sharman, the fundamentalist. Hannum used a few set plays, but for the most part he expected...
The world's largest commissioner stands before the proprietors of sport's newest professional enterprise, fondles a red, white and blue basketball and says: "Gentlemen, the game is on." And so it...
Navy felt something special would be needed to butt through the stoutest defense in football, so it came up with an extra mascot and a wild offensive formation that left poor Syracuse bewildered...
THE EAST
THE BACK: Cornell Quarterback Bill Robertson had his finest moment in the Big Red's 47-13 trouncing of Princeton as he completed an astonishing 16 of 20 passes for 221 yards and three touchdowns...
October 23, 1967 Wilt Chamberlain may now be the highest-paid player in basketball, but Rick Barry is still the highest-paid nonplayer in the game, at $75,000 for the year he is sitting out. (Rick's is a modest...
When you hit an explosion shot and leave the ball in the bunker the reason invariably is that you have gone too deep into the sand with your wedge. A sand wedge, because it has a wide flange,...
October 23, 1967 | Susan Blackburn In the heart of swinging London, in the midst of crowds of miniskirted, kinky-booted girls, or "birds," right smack on Regent Street (No. 235), old Mr. Fredericks of Harry Hall Ltd. quietly...
Keeping intact their record of never having lost a seven-game Series, the St. Louis Cardinals defeated the Boston Red Sox in an encounter that was filled with exciting performances—and genuine...
The only significant match-play event for the pros shows the glories of head-to-head competition as Palmer and Thomson wage a classic duel and Player and Brewer have the pleasure of a 'says who'...
The Mexicans wept tears of joy as Saldivar beat Winstone and rained cushions on Terrell and Ramos
Expecting to find a sporting bonanza, the author and his wife travel to tiny Andorra and learn that, while there is no hunting to speak of, the fishing is just awful
October 23, 1967 BASKETBALL—NBA: The season opened slowly as SAN FRANCISCO crushed Seattle, one of the two new expansion teams, 144-116; BOSTON beat Chicago 105-90; and ST. LOUIS edged the other expansion team,...
October 23, 1967 Maryann Rathmell, a Houston housewife who has held four Louisiana State Amateur Golf titles and was the 1966 Southern Amateur medalist, won the Texas State championship for the fourth straight...
October 23, 1967 22, 23—Tony Triolo24, 25—Lee Balterman, Arthur Shay26—Lee Balterman27—Arthur Shay29-31—Herb Scharfman32-36—Constantine Manos-Magnum38-45—drawings by Dan Nevins47—Shel Hershorn-Black Star48, 49—Bob...
October 23, 1967 GENTLE RAPSirs:Half a hat off to William Johnson for his gentle drubbing of the World Boxing Association (The Riddle of the Jolly Do-gooders, Oct. 9). Mr. Johnson has all the facts. He knows why...
October 23, 1967 | Janet Graham Up to now virtually every minority group in the world except one has had its spokesmen and its apologists. That single neglected group has now found its special pleader in Michael Barsley, author...
His text was basketball and, though he never got past the eighth grade, he knew the whole book word for word
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