
Contents
14 Fabulous in Defeat
Quarterback Joe Namath of Alabama was his usual brilliant self in the Orange Bowl, but Texas won the game
18 Two Once and Future Champs
Princeton's Bill Bradley and the UCLA team reasserted their supremacy in holiday basketball tournaments
22 Golden Days at the Dentist's
Santa Anita, which both horsemen and moneymen said would fail, has become the best racetrack in America
24 The Story of a Season
Coach Don Shula of the Baltimore Colts recounts his team's triumphs and disasters. First of two parts
30 Hot-rodding on the Ice
Neil Leifer's camera focuses on the color of iceboating as Hugh Whall talks about one of its devotees
40 Sport Moves Under a Big Top
School and college architecture is taking on a new look, at least in the world of athletics
50 Big Itch Called Little John
Texas' John Mecom Jr. has large plans, automotive and zoological, and the wealth and will to fight for them
The departments
6 Scorecard
48 People
49 Golf
62 For the Record
63 Basketball's Week
64 19th Hole
Credits on page 62
Cover photograph by Walter Iooss Jr.
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