December 11, 1961 Table Of Contents
Shopwalk
Imaginative sporting games that the whole family can enjoy are good presents for Christmas
By Paul Stewart
Table of Contents
NHL games through February 4
Alabama
THE BEAR AND ALABAMA COME OUT ON TOP
With a violent 34-0 victory over archrival Auburn, Bear Bryant's Crimson Tide finished a perfect season. Now Bear points for the Sugar Bowl and recognition as the No. 1 team
By Roy Terrell
AGONY INSTEAD OF ROSES IN COLUMBUS
When Ohio State's faculty voted against sending its football team to the Rose Bowl, students erupted in wild demonstrations and for two days terrorized many of the school's professors
A MILD CHAMPION BEATS AN INFERIOR BRAWLER
In Toronto, Floyd Patterson almost absentmindedly contains Tom McNeeley's gallant but wild rushes and in four rounds drops him eight times—the last time for keeps
A BRILLIANT CASE OF MUSCLE OVER MUSCLE
Green Bay mashed the Giants last Sunday right in the place where it hurt most—their defensive line
By Tex Maule
College Basketball 1961-62
With a flock of superb senior players, the colleges launch a season of great expectations, only slightly flawed by offstage rumbles from last year's fixes
By Ray Cave
AT THE CENTER OF IT ALL IS A BOY WITH A BASKETBALL
Compiled by: Ray Cave, ARLIE W. SCHARDT, Nancy Pierce
Football's Week
Horse Shows
If you aim O'Malley he'll jump
...but the problem is to aim him. That's what Jim Elder did at the Toronto Royal show, to take top honors in the year's last big event
Fast Draw
By Huston Horn
Winners Of The Silver Goalposts
The Silver All-Americas, 1936-61
They were football-playing seniors 25 autumns ago; they were nominated by their alma maters for Sports Illustrated's annual career awards; and—for what they accomplished then and since—they have been elected the Silver Anniversary All-Americas of 1961. Herewith the portrait of a generation
For The Record
A roundup of the sports information of the week
Acknowledgments
19th Hole: The Readers Take Over
19TH HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER
Pat On The Back
Too many whistles