September 23, 1963 Table Of Contents
Big Games
Yesterday
The World's Most Complicated Game
Fletcher Pratt, a historian and naval expert, invented a complex pastime that used ballroom floors and up to 120 players
By Paul Mandel
Desperate Chase
One of baseball's famed clichés is the cry of the team that is almost out of the race: "We've got to win 'em all." This is what the Cardinals were saying three weeks ago when they trailed the Dodgers by seven games. Since then, in the hottest pennant drive in memory, St. Louis has climbed upward—crucial day by crucial day. Last week, true to the cliché, they won 'em all. Here, game by game, is an intimate look at the Cards' dramatic pursuit
The Bears discovered that the Packers were human and the touted Cowboys landed on their heads, but the proud old Giants, just to prove that the NFL was still the NFL, wore their age quite well
By Tex Maule
College Football 1963
In a year of exceptional quarterbacks, the nation's leading teams will open their offenses and pass often, but defensive-minded Texas should finish unbeaten and No. 1
By Dan Jenkins
Compiled by Mervin Hyman, Dan Jenkins, Harold Peterson, John Underwood
Compiled by Mervin Hyman, Dan Jenkins, Harold Peterson, John Underwood
Compiled by Mervin Hyman, Dan Jenkins, Harold Peterson, John Underwood
Compiled by Mervin Hyman, Dan Jenkins, Harold Peterson, John Underwood
Compiled by Mervin Hyman, Dan Jenkins, Harold Peterson, John Underwood
Compiled by Mervin Hyman, Dan Jenkins, Harold Peterson, John Underwood
Compiled by Mervin Hyman, Dan Jenkins, Harold Peterson, John Underwood
ONE WONDERFUL CONCH IS THIS MIRA
Everything is George in Miami, where George Mira is everything, including the best quarterback in college football. Key Westers are more smug. They say he has py-asso, and they still love him
Golf
The Deane of the amateurs wins again
An intense young businessman named Beman gets his second National Amateur title, but it takes all the studious concentration he has to fend off an up-from-the-public-links college boy in the final match
By Gwilym S. Brown
College Football
Baseball's Week
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