Contents

36 Money Is a Girl's Best Friend
The biggest check in the history of women's golf was won by Mickey Wright, and the game got a new look

40 Great Leap Forward—and Back
Up came the East Germans and a wet-weather Welsh jumper, and down went the Russians in the European Games

42 Frank's Way with a Filly
All Frank Ervin's skill at handling young female trotters was required to win The Hambletonian

44 The Men Who Fire Managers
Although the managers of major league teams get fired when teams fail, the responsibility is higher up

Pro Football 1966

52 The season begins in unprecedented peace and prosperity

SCOUTING REPORTS

National Football League

WEST

57 CHICAGO
62 GREEN BAY
64 BALTIMORE
64 SAN FRANCISCO
67 MINNESOTA
69 DETROIT
71 LOS ANGELES

EAST

73 CLEVELAND
73 DALLAS
74 NEW YORK
80 WASHINGTON
83 PHILADELPHIA
83 ST. LOUIS
84 PITTSBURGH
85 ATLANTA

American Football League

EAST

87 BUFFALO
87 NEW YORK
89 BOSTON
90 HOUSTON
91 MIAMI

WEST

93 SAN DIEGO
93 OAKLAND
95 KANSAS CITY
95 DENVER

98 Mellow—and Still Fighting
Bear Bryant, summing up a series on his life in college football, promises he'll quit—if he stops winning

128 Looking for a Lift
Near the end of a remarkable career, Norbert Schemansky finds himself without honor or a job

The departments

24 Scorecard
111 People
112 Baseball
116 Boating
119 Bridge
120 Golf
124 Golf
153 Baseball's Week
154 For the Record
155 19th Hole

Cover photograph by Neil Leifer

Credits on page 154

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ILLUSTRATION

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Next week

College football opens its 1966 season with more critical early games than ever before. Dan Jenkins looks at the year ahead and picks the No. 1 team. For the first time Paul Dietzel, now coach at South Carolina, describes the circumstances under which he left LSU and Army. There are candid studies of other leading coaches, as well as detailed scouting reports on all 116 major and 136 small-college teams.

Packers meet Colts before our color cameras in a lively week that also brings Cassius Clay's fight with Karl Mildenberger and the U.S. tennis championships at Forest Hills.