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December 3, 1956 Table Of Contents

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Jimmy Jemail's Hotbox

The Question: How do you feel about All-America football teams?

By Jimmy Jemail

Coming Events

COMING EVENTS Nov. 30 through Dec. 9

The Melbourne Olympics

WORLD'S EYE ON SPORT

Melbourne's Olympic stadium and its adjacent playing fields, now alive with competitors under the strong spring sun of Australia, hold the focused attention of 67 nations as the Games of the XVI Olympiad begin

By Andre Laguerre

A STAR-SPANGLED SYMPHONY

A certain anthem became No. 1 on the hit parade as U.S. athletes ran away with handfuls of early medals

By Roy Terrell

Spectacle

WILD AND WET

San Francisco Bay sailors are a breed apart in their devotion to the choppiest, windiest and most unpredictable body of water in yachtdom

By Richard Pollard

Events & Discoveries

EVENTS & DISCOVERIES

MELBOURNE GOES COSMOPOLITAN THE BELLES OF THE VILLAGE TALK TRACK, STAND-INS ON WHEELS MASON-DIXON FOOTBALL CHAMPIONS, CHARLEY, ROCKY AND DAYS OF AULD LANG SYNE

The Titans Were Tied

THE TITANS WERE TIED

The Giants and Bears, pro football's best, battle to a draw. Old Pro Chuck Conerly helps explain the deadlock

By Tex Maule

THE PROS

Football: Tenth Week

DAY OF THE 'BIG GAME'

By Alfred Wright

AROUND THE COUNTRY

By Don Parker

Acknowledgments

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Preview

CAVEAT ANNAPOLIS

'Navy beware' is the message to be read between the lines in what Earl Blaik has to say as he gets his Cadets ready to face the favored Middies in Philadelphia this Saturday in the 57th meeting of the two great rivals

By Don Parker

Scouting Reports

ARMY

NAVY

Sport In Art

VIVE LE SPORT

Rousseau's quaintly mustachioed soccer players

Horses

The year's most lavish show brings red carpets, record jumpers and a "Doc" from Illinois to the TORONTO SHOWCASE

By Alice Higgins

Tip From The Top

particularly for advanced golfers

By Palmer Maples

Sand, Sea And Speed

SAND, SEA AND SPEED

Footloose Sportsman

FOOTLOOSE SPORTSMAN IN NASSAU

By Horace Sutton

Boxing

Sugar Ray Robinson grabs the tiger's share in his title defense against Gene Fullmer, and so it is SUGAR FOR SUGAR

By Martin Kane

The Outdoor Week

THE OUTDOOR WEEK

In Montana state fish and game officials war on the fibbing military, in Michigan a National Skeet Champion breaks an expensive bird, while in New Brunswick a deer-jacker shoots with strange result

Edited by Thomas H. Lineaweaver

19th Hole: The Readers Take Over

19th HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER

Mr. Caper

MR. CAPER

By Ajay

Mail Order Gourmet

MAIL ORDER GOURMET

The postman is your grocer: ham from Virginia, pheasant from New York or lobster from Maine

By Fred R. Smith

Pat On The Back

HIGH-FLYING GOLFERS

Departments

MEMO FROM THE PUBLISHER

By Harry Phillips

SCOREBOARD

...THESE FACES IN THE CROWD...

FOCUS ON THE DEED

FOR THE RECORD