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September 24, 1956 Table Of Contents

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Jimmy Jemail's Hotbox

The Question: Is it a help or a handicap being the son or daughter of a famous football player?

By Jimmy Jemail

Coming Events

COMING EVENTS September 21 through September 30

BASEBALL: A TIME FOR VALOR

By Robert Creamer

A TIME OF URGENCY

CAREER BOY FOR SWAPS

By Whitney Tower

BASILIO NIGHT IN SYRACUSE

By Martin Kane

ENCORE FOR HARVIE WARD

'Career Four-Irons'—and a will—win him the National Amateur

By Herbert Warren Wind

Events & Discoveries

EVENTS & DISCOVERIES

HOPES AND RADIOS TUNED HIGH IN MILWAUKEE, BOARDMAN IS PALERMO'S PUGILIST NOW, THE MIXTURE AS NEVER BEFORE, BOROTRA IN HIS ATHLETIC FIFTIES, THE ANCIENT AERONAUT

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MARCH, MARCH TO VICTORY

By Paul O'Neil

THE AUTUMN BATTLEGROUND

THE ELEVEN BEST ELEVENS

By Herman Hickman

Hickman's Hunches

HICKMAN'S HUNCHES for GAMES OF SATURDAY, SEPT. 22

By Herman Hickman

Scouting Reports

IVY LEAGUE

THE INDEPENDENTS

THE YANKEE CONFERENCE

THE BIG TEN

THE BIG SEVEN

MISSOURI VALLEY CONFERENCE

ATLANTIC COAST CONFERENCE

THE SOUTHERN CONFERENCE

SOUTHEASTERN CONFERENCE

THE BORDER CONFERENCE

SOUTHWEST CONFERENCE

SATURDAY'S HEROES

The heavily armored athletes shown on the following four pages might not look like football players to Walter Camp, but it was he who thought up the honor they now covet—All-America

By Don Parker

THE SKYLINE CONFERENCE

PACIFIC COAST CONFERENCE

THE SMALL COLLEGES TOO

Aesop might well have been referring to them when he wrote, "You may share the labours of the great, but not the spoils"

Acknowledgments

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Sporting Look

HAPPY SPECTATOR

With a 10-yard-line seat, the weather wet and the home team on the losing end, you can still be a HAPPY SPECTATOR

By Fred R. Smith

What Happens To Players?

PART I: WHAT HAPPENS TO FOOTBALL PLAYERS?

In the first of two parts, Sports Illustrated examines the popular notion that stardom on the gridiron is often followed by failure in life. A unique and monumental survey by Notre Dame supplies material for this part of the study, and its conclusions are startling

By Robert Coughlan

Tip From The Top

for all golfers except low-handicap players

By Byron Nelson

19th Hole: The Readers Take Over

19th HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER

Pat On The Back

BAILIE AND McLAUGHLIN

Departments

MEMO FROM THE PUBLISHER

By Harry Phillips

SCOREBOARD

...THESE FACES IN THE CROWD...

FOCUS ON THE DEED

FOR THE RECORD