November 18, 1963 Table Of Contents
Yesterday
The Pig That Paved the Way to the Game
College students had a tougher time getting to distant football games in 1916 than they do today. Here is how an enterprising group from Wisconsin solved the problem
By Frank Birch
Pesticides
Contrary to the dire prophecies of Rachel Carson's best-selling 'Silent Spring,' pesticides like those being dusted over the California farm below have helped produce the nation's healthiest wildlife crop in many decades
While his backers wring their hands and the heavyweight champion goes weak with laughter, Cassius Clay signs for a title fight with Sonny Liston in February, probably in Las Vegas
By Huston Horn
Auburn, Illinois and Baylor had not counted on high station but, powerful in their own conference races, they stayed on top to the finish—almost
Vermont
With agriculture falling off and the maple syrup industry now a mere drop in the bucket, the cold winters in Vermont are being warmed these days by a welcome avalanche of skiing money
By Huston Horn
Winter Tennis
IT'S WINTERTIME, SO LET'S PLAY TENNIS
By Rex Lardner
College Football
A coach even the faculty likes
Win or lose, John Bridgers of Baylor is an anomaly on campus. He really thinks the game is fun
By Morton Sharnik
By Mervin Hyman
Bridge
Pro Football
Y. A. Tittle Is the Best Policy
At 37 he should be selling insurance instead of throwing a football, but the Giants' insurance man is paying a bigger dividend each year
By Tex Maule
Horse Racing
America's best grass horse defeated its best all-round horse in the Laurel International, but the prize money mostly stayed in the family
Dogs
Not poodle, not pointer, but both dogs in one
New to the Western Hemisphere, the mongrellike pudelpointer has been carefully crossbred to make it a competent dog-of-all-trades
Bill Russell
'WE ARE GROWN MEN PLAYING A CHILD'S GAME'
The bearded man laughing at his daughter is Bill Russell, the most remarkable basketball player of our time. Sport, however, is one of his lesser interests. Here are his trenchant, often angry observations on today's Negro-white crisis and his role in it
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