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September 23, 1957 Table Of Contents

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Coming Events

COMING EVENTS SEPT. 20-SEPT. 29

Hickman's Hunches

HICKMAN'S HUNCHES FOR SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 21

By Herman Hickman

News Of The Week

WHISTLING PAST DER GRAVEYARD

The week's news was rich with triumphs and achievements in the world of sport, on the playing fields of baseball, golf and tennis, on the race tracks and waterways and on the roaring roads of the motor sportsmen—and, if that were not enough, football was almost ready for its long-awaited rendezvous with the American fall. But no single subject provoked more discussion, speculation and indeed curbstone philosophizing up and down the autumn land than the engrossing question: Can the Milwaukee Braves blow the National League pennant again this year? The citizens of Milwaukee had the jitters (see below) and so did the citizens of St. Louis, but their moods were vastly different

Events & Discoveries

EVENTS & DISCOVERIES

ROCKEFELLER TAKES A HAND, STATES' RIGHTS FOR DUCKS, GUILFORD'S RETURN, FALCONS ON THE WING, BASEBALL'S WORLD FAIR, THE KING IS DEAD, AN INTERESTING WAGER

The Game

THIS IS THE GAME

Football 1957 will fill the air from now until the bowl games, so here are 100 pages to help you enjoy it all season

By Tex Maule

Eleven Elevens

THE ELEVEN BEST ELEVENS

The Bard of the Smokies greets the new season with his annual pick of the best teams, and Artist Joe Kaufman casts their coaches in Shakespearian roles which every football fan will recognize

By Herman Hickman

Scouting Reports

IVY LEAGUE

THE INDEPENDENTS

YANKEE CONFERENCE

SATURDAY'S MOODS

The nonstatistical side of football—the drama that the game produces each weekend—is told in eight pages of color

By Don Parker

THE BIG TEN

THE BIG EIGHT

MISSOURI VALLEY

ATLANTIC COAST CONFERENCE

SOUTHERN CONFERENCE

SOUTHEAST CONFERENCE

BORDER CONFERENCE

SOUTHWEST CONFERENCE

SKYLINE CONFERENCE

PACIFIC COAST CONFERENCE

SMALL COLLEGES

By Dudley Doust

Sport In Art

FOOTBALL FANTASY

Acknowledgments

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Conversation Piece

A HERETIC SPEAKS HIS MIND

Iowa's Forest Evashevski, a shatterer of cherished football concepts as well as enemy teams, punctures some shibboleths of the game

By Jack Olsen

"...A philosophy my family shares"

By Bernard F. Gimbel

19th Hole: The Readers Take Over

19TH HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER

Pat On The Back

PAT ON THE BACK

Departments

MEMO from the publisher

By Harry Phillips

SCOREBOARD

these faces in the crowd

focus on the deed....

FOR THE RECORD