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September 22, 1958 Table Of Contents

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Jimmy Jemail's Hotbox

THE QUESTION: How do you feel about the new rule which awards one point for a kick after touchdown or two points for a run or pass conversion?

By Jimmy Jemail

1958 HOMECOMING GAMES

Coming Events

COMING EVENTS September 19 to September 28

Events & Discoveries

EVENTS & DISCOVERIES

Eleven Best Elevens

THE ELEVEN BEST ELEVENS

Red Grange and other members of the Sports Illustrated football staff make the annual selection of the 11 teams most likely to win the nation's final applause in the 1958 season

Scouting Reports

THE EAST

Where football was born and Ivy grows

THE SOUTH

Auburn, Clemson and Miami will be whistling in Dixie

THE MIDWEST

Ohio State, Notre Dame and Oklahoma are teams to beat

THE SOUTHWEST

Fast-rising Houston and Arizona State are ready to share the football limelight with the SWC big guns

THE WEST

The PCC dies and the Big Four is nearly stillborn

Spectacle

A Raccoon Coat, a Flask and Thou Beside Me

A November snowfall makes football especially delightful for spectators, but on the field it becomes an eerie and chilly ballet for the players

Sport In Art

Pigskin Combat

By Walker Evans

Small Colleges

SMALL COLLEGES

Don't knock Slippery Rock or Ripon; they play football, too, and some of it would put the big colleges to shame

Cactus In The Ivy

A CACTUS PLANT IN STANFORD'S IVY

Cactus Jack Curtice talks like Tennessee Ernie, but he is awakening memories of the 'Vow Boys' and the 'Wow Boys' in defeat-conditioned Stanford alumni

By James Murray

Lou Groza

LOU GROZA TEACHES YOU THE PLACE KICK

Lou Groza, who at the age of 34 is now in his 13th year as a star tackle for the Cleveland Browns, ranks as the greatest place kicker in football history. The 628 points he has scored with his toe is a record which may last forever

By Dudley Doust

19th Hole: The Readers Take Over

19TH HOLE: The readers take over

Acknowledgments

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Pat On The Back

CHESTER J. LAROCHE

'Never de-emphasize the value of winning'

Departments

MEMO from the publisher

By Harry Phillips

A worldwide roundup of the sports information of the week

focus on the deed...

FOR THE RECORD

faces in the crowd...

RETURN OF CHARLIE COE

By Herbert Warren Wind

BASEBALL CANDOR VIA AIR VENT

WELL-BREDS IN WESTCHESTER