December 9, 1957 Table Of Contents
Pro Parade
By Kaye Kessler
Pigskin Panorama
Acknowledgments
From The Flyways
Fisherman's Calendar
Coming Events
Mix up the Mardi Gras, the Kentucky Derby, the Rose Bowl and the World Series and you have Canada's Grey Cup week
By Tex Maule
Events & Discoveries
The American Game
College basketball races onstage to begin its annual four-month run as winter's biggest campus show
By Roy Terrell
Spectacle
Basketball's boom has triggered a chain reaction of new multimillion-dollar arenas equipped to handle great crowds in a setting of colorful, geometric beauty
Art On The Court
Behind the apparently aimless swirl of 10 young men racing down a polished hardwood floor and the dynamic disarray which they present beneath the basket, there exist certain basic, even classic, patterns and skills. In instants of perfection, they also become an art, indigenous to this sport alone: the shooting, playmaking and defense which make up the game of basketball
Scouting Reports
Dixie's Hero
Coach Frank McGuire, formerly of Greenwich Village, has been enthusiastically adopted as North Carolina's very own, along with a team he imported from Greater New York
Quel Homme!
AH, QUEL HOMME! OH, QUELS FEET!
The tallest man in American college basketball this year is a 7-foot-3 Frenchman from Paris who wears a size 17 shoe
Yesterday
Hank Luisetti came out of the West to New York 21 years ago, and basketball has never been the same game since
By Les Woodcock
Figures
The perennial hot debate about which conference plays the best brand of basketball is analyzed in a set of charts specially prepared for the partisan fans
The 24-Second Rule
By Bing Crosby
22 This exercise helps you retain or recapture the flexibility of youth
Cards On The Table
Jimmy Jemail's Hotbox
By Jimmy Jemail
19th Hole: The Readers Take Over
19th HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER
Pat On The Back
Departments
...this year, for the Midwest's outstanding college teams