February 1, 1971 Table Of Contents
Booktalk
A handy guide to wild foods celebrates cattails, wild strawberries and knotweed
By Don Anderson
Yesterday
By J. A. Maxtone Graham
In The Running
After a layoff of nearly two years, world-record holder Jim Ryun competed in his first race last week, an indoor mile in San Francisco, beat a mediocre field and removed a great weight from his shoulders
By Pat Putnam
The Champ
IT'S GONNA BE THE CHAMP AND THE TRAMP
...so says Muhammad Ali, and you shouldn't have trouble guessing which role he assigns himself in the fight with Joe Frazier
By Tex Maule
Football Squeeze
After a decade of high living, college football faces a serious financial squeeze. Costs are still rising, but revenues approach a ceiling. For all but the richest teams austerity measures lie ahead
By Pat Ryan
One For Fun
IT'S OnE FOR FUn in TOMORROW'S SUn
There will be the usual tourist comforts: hotels, golf alongside the sparkling ocean, hidden white-sand beaches. But if all goes as planned the island also will retain its very special flavor—an air that is purely Dominican
College Basketball
An Irish Carr moves into high gear
And mighty UCLA thought it had been hit by a wild dump truck
Track & Field
Last October, Christos Papanicolaou became the first to vault 18 feet, but it takes more than a world record to become a Greek hero
Pro Football
Goodby to the Alka-Seltzer and Aspirin Bowl
In the past, teams got up for the Pro Bowl in cocktail lounges, but this year the game was between clubs representing the two old leagues and therefore a matter of pride. In the end, the NFL was the prouder
By Tex Maule
Leisure
The retirement dream dawns as a reality, every day is just for play, and sport is the tie that truly binds in this sunlit haven for the golfer, boater, angler
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 J. Richard Munro
Edited by Martin Kane