November 28, 1966 Table Of Contents
Booktalk
A variety of subjects that may be of interest to the holiday shopper
Upside-Down Game
College football awaited an epic that was supposed to decide the national championship. But it all fell apart when Michigan State faltered after a fast start, and Notre Dame took the easy way out
By Dan Jenkins
Duel With Death
After days of probing the Bonneville Salt Flats, Art Arfons fired up his jet car, the 'Green Monster,' for a maximum assault on the land-speed record. Crashing at more than 600 mph, he somehow got out alive
By Bob Ottum
Face-Off
The biggest issue at the Houston tournament was not so much who won—Arnold Palmer did—as it was whether Casper could hold off Nicklaus and emerge as golf's leading money-winner for 1966
Vaagg
UNTROUBLED SPORT FOR THOSE WHO PLAY VAAGG
Having invented VASSS, the scoring system that takes the love out of tennis, the author now turns to greener pastures by advancing outrageous proposals that take the hate out of golf
College Football
The Cowboy Joes of Wyoming sang louder than ever as they gunned down Brigham Young and the Marine Corps with a hail of points
By Tom C. Brody
By Mervin Hyman
People
Hockey
The boy on Bobby's back is back
A Red Wing who achieved fame last year by being a nuisance in the playoffs is as pesky as ever
By Gary Ronberg
Pro Football
Four-legged halfbacks and friendly wolves
You will find them in Kansas City, where the Chiefs are the AFL's best bet for the supergame with the NFL. The legs belong to Mike Garrett and Bert Coan, who function as one back, and the wolves are fans
By Edwin Shrake
Bridge
'You opened with that kind of rubbish?'
This and some other provoking questions were heard last week at the International Team Trials
Wild Race
A WILD, WICKED RACE TO THE BIG TIME
Smash him in the rear, hook him into the wall, ram him broadside if you can—that's how it's done in stock car racing. And that's how Bobby Allison, a pious and mannerly man off the tracks but a devout car-slammer on them—a dedicated engine-tinkerer, too—has clawed up from the bush leagues to become the sport's newest hero
By Kim Chapin
For The Record
A roundup of the sports information of the week
19th Hole: The Readers Take Over
19TH HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER
Departments
By Garry Valk