November 12, 1984 | Volume 61, Issue 22

The year was 1905, and the occasion was a football game between Penn and Swarthmore College at Philadelphia's Franklin Field. By game's end, as legend has it, the face of American football had...

Dust rose listlessly Sunday into the hot, hazy, milk-white Mississippi afternoon. On the field at Mississippi Memorial Stadium in Jackson, time passed with inexorable relentlessness for...

The old question still haunts Larry Brown, though he's shown signs that coaching at Kansas could be the last stop in his odyssey

The best racing oars are not manufactured, as might be expected, in some high-tech European rowingwerk. No, the oar that has cornered the U.S. collegiate and national racing market is handcrafted...

After years of following baseball and occasionally dipping into the sciences, I have arrived at these conclusions: Great mathematicians are like fastball pitchers. They're at their peak in their...

PRO BASKETBALL—With Walter Davis's knee in a cast and Maurice Lucas's contract in limbo, Phoenix faced plenty of difficulties. Then Suns guard Kyle Macy stubbed his toe and was sidelined. No...

DAVE BENSONLITTLETON, COLO.Benson, 28, the first-year tennis coach at Cherry Creek High, led the Bruins to their 13th straight state title, equaling the national boys' high school record. He was...

HANG TIMESir:Basketball! When played well, it's the most beautifully orchestrated and artistic sport I know of, and Tony Kornheiser's article They've Got The Hang Of It (Oct. 29) underscores that...

"SHE JUST COULDN'T COPE"

•Orlando Pizzolato, surprise winner of the 1984 New York City Marathon, upon being told that his prizes included a new Mercedes: "My god, gas costs so much."

Pro football is hurting, but it needn't be. The author names the ills and prescribes some remedies

TO: PETE ROZELLE, NFLFROM: WILLIAM TAAFFE, SIRE: HOW TO PUT SOME LIFE INTO THENETWORK TELEVISION RATINGS

Those are major ingredients of Supercross, the wild invention of Mike Goodwin, who last week brought his cycle circus to the Coliseum

In this Olympic year SPORTS ILLUSTRATED is with this issue having a torch-passing ceremony of its own. Gilbert Rogin, 54, the SI managing editor since 1979, last week became managing editor of our...

Maybe its conference is WACy, and maybe its players are slow, but BYU is making a serious run—er, pass—at winning the national championship

Alfredo Primavera, an American in Italy, is an expert violinmaker who coaches spaghetti football

A one-week demotion left All-Star Buffalo goalie Tom Barrasso steaming

Spectator sports are drowning in The Wave. It is transforming stadiums into beach-front properties with such regularity these days that some people wish it would just go back out to sea.

Seattle's strong safety Ken Easley is a high-powered punt returner, too

Martha Rogers, owner and president of Rogers Tour & Travel in Rochester, N.Y., really had no choice. Ten days before Sunday's Bills-Browns game featuring two teams with a combined record of...

John Jefferson probably won't be in a Green Bay uniform next season. Though still a starter, the 28-year-old All-Pro receiver may have worked himself out of the Packers' future game plan....

Denver's Rich Karlis, who kicks barefoot because it gives him a better feel for the ball, has quite a few fans walking around town with one shoe off, one shoe on. "I'm flattered," says Karlis, a...

OFFENSE: Ali Haji-Sheikh broke out of a season-long slump with field goals of 40, 38, 23 and 27 yards to pace the 6-4 New York Giants to a 19-7 victory in Dallas and a share of first place in the...

Champion Bill Costello pleased his hometown by foiling Saoul Mamby

Schoolboy star Hart Lee Dykes has already made two halls of fame

SOUTH

OFFENSE: Fullback Gene Lake carried 27 times for 232 yards and six TDs as Delaware State romped over Howard 45-7. With 1,386 yards on the season, Lake is the No. 1 rusher in Division I-AA.