Contents

16 Put Away the Flowers!
Reports of Sugar Ray's "death" were premature

20 No, Virginia, No Santa Claus
For winless Virginia: an unwanted record

22 Long, Loud Huzzahs for Nassau
Bahamas Speed Week is better than ever before

24 The West Heads for a Showdown
In a wild finish, any one of three may win

26 New Day in Green Bay
After 15 years the Packers are again at the top

Basketball: The New Season

30 IN COLOR: The Dixie Classic
35 SCOUTING REPORTS (indexed below)
78 The secret of DePaul's great offense

96 Sam Snead and the Serpent
Gerald Holland concludes his unusual story of the great pro who gets younger every day

The departments

8 Scorecard
15 Coming Events
86 Skiing
88 Fishing
91 Charles Goren
104 Basketball's Week
105 For the Record
106 19th Hole
108 Pat on the Back

Acknowledgments on page 105

Cover collage by Richard Erdoes

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Next week

Martin Kane and Gil Rogin report from Washington, D.C. on the current congressional inquiry into big-time boxing.

Can the Eagles make it? Tex Maule and Robert Riger assess their chances against the NFL's Western champions.

The men who man the hottest spots on hockey's ice are revealed in 10 pages of words and vivid color photographs.

Adams State	64
Air Force	74
Alabama	42
Arizona	60
Arizona State	60
Arkansas	45
Army	68
Auburn	42
Baylor	45
Boston College	68
Boston U.	71
Bowling Green	50
Bradley	49
Brigham Young	62
Brown	37
Bucknell	38
Butler	74
California	66
Canisius	71
Cincinnati	49
Citadel	41
Clemson	44
Colgate	72
College of Pacific	65
Colorado College	64
Colorado Mines	64
Colorado State College	62
Colorado State U.	64
Colorado U.	59
Colorado Western	64
Columbia	37
Connecticut	36
Cornell	37
Dartmouth	37
Davidson	41
Dayton	73
Delaware	38
Denver	63
DePaul	73
Detroit	72
Drake	49
Duke	44
Duquesne	71
Eastern Kentucky	46
East Tennessee St.	47
Florida	42
Florida State	72
Fordham	71
Fresno State	74
Furman	41
Georgetown	72
George Washington	41
Georgia	42
Georgia Tech	42
Gettysburg	38
Gonzaga	74
Grabbling	60
Hardin-Simmons	60
Harvard	37
Holy Cross	68
Houston	49
Idaho	66
Idaho State	64
Illinois	52
Indiana	52
Iowa	57
Iowa State	58
Kansas	58
Kansas State	58
Kent State	50
Kentucky	42
Lafayette	38
LaSalle	38
Lehigh	38
Louisiana State	42
Louisville	72
Loyola (Calif.)	65
Loyola (Ill.)	74
Loyola (La.)	72
Maine	36
Manhattan	71
Marquette	73
Marshall	50
Maryland	44
Massachusetts	36
Memphis State	72
Miami (Fla.)	72
Miami (Ohio)	50
Michigan	57
Michigan State	57
Middle Tennessee	47
Minnesota	52
Mississippi	42
Mississippi State	42
Missouri	59
Montana State College	74
Montana State U.	63
Morehead State	46
Muhlenburg	38
Murray State	46
Navy	72
Nebraska	59
New Hampshire	36
New Mexico	63
New Mexico State	60
NYU	68
Niagara	71
North Carolina	44
No. Carolina State	44
North Texas State	49
Northwestern	52
Notre Dame	74
Ohio State	52
Ohio U.	50
Oklahoma	59
Oklahoma City	72
Oklahoma State	58
Oregon	66
Oregon State	66
Penn	37
Penn State	71
Pepperdine	65
Pittsburgh	71
Portland	74
Princeton	37
Providence	68
Purdue	52
Rhode Island	36
Rice	45
Richmond	41
Rutgers	38
St. Bonaventure	68
St Francis (Pa.)	71
St. John's (N.Y.)	68
St. Joseph's (Pa.)	38
St. Louis	49
St. Mary's (Calif.)	65
San Francisco	65
San Jose State	65
Santa Clara	65
Seattle	74
Seton Hall	68
South Carolina	44
Southern California	66
SMU	45
Stanford	66
Syracuse	71
Temple	38
Tennessee	42
Tennessee A&I	41
Tennessee Tech	47
Texas	45
Texas A&M	45
TCU	45
Texas Southern	60
Texas Tech	45
Texas Western	60
Toledo	50
Tulane	42
Tulsa	49
UCLA	66
Utah	62
Utah State	62
Vanderbilt	42
Vermont	36
Villanova	68
Virginia	44
VMI	41
Virginia Tech	41
Wake Forest	44
Washington	66
Washington State	66
Western Kentucky	46
Western Michigan	50
West Texas State	60
West Virginia	41
Wichita	49
William & Mary	41
Wisconsin	57
Wyoming	62
Xavier (Ohio)	73
Yale	37