September 13, 1971 Table Of Contents
Yesterday
Al Tharnish didn't care whether he was running for Ringling Bros. or Yale as long as the price was right
TV Talk
Despite a shortage of personalities, tennis now scores in the rating game
By Frank Deford
Late Summer Madness
Whether you call them exhibitions or preseason games, pro football fans are going to them in record numbers
LOOK WHAT GARY FOUND IN THE CUP!
From deep in the rough on 18, Gary Cowan holed a nine-iron for an eagle and the U.S. Amateur title
By Joe Jares
Play By Play
AND HERE, TO BRING YOU THE PLAY BY PLAY...
...by play by play are those baseball announcers who do more talking on the tube from early April to October than Johnny Carson and Dick Cavett combined
College Football 1971
By Dan Jenkins
Nebraska football was once flat as a wheatfield, but since Bob Devaney took over in 1962 he has built a mountain of winners, including last year's undefeated national champion
Baseball
A fat record made to thin applause
By Ron Fimrite
Harness Racing
Garbage, grit and the Hambletonian miracle
In the continuing saga of New York's Antonacci family, which used a sanitation biz as the springboard to victory in the 1969 trotting classic, they again invoke some lofty assistance, reinvade Du Quoin—and win!
For The Record
A roundup of the week Aug. 31-Sept. 5
19th Hole: The Readers Take Over
19TH HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER
Departments
By J. Richard Munro
Edited by Robert W. Creamer