December 4, 1972 Table Of Contents
Booktalk
In his novel, "Semi-Tough," Dan Jenkins has a bestseller all about pro football, kind of
By Larry Keith
Yesterday
Wild Bill Who? The Country's Best What?
Something called roller polo was the rage 60 years ago, but circumstances made a liar of the adman who once wrote, "It will undoubtedly become the national indoor sport"
Battle Royal
Thanksgiving is past, but San Francisco, Atlanta and Los Angeles are still struggling to see if somebody can win the Turkey Division
By Ron Reid
This time it is in appreciation of a joyous new Ice Age in Atlanta, where the expansion Flames are off and blazing and the neophyte fans are up and cheering
By Mark Mulvoy
AN OAK LEAF CLUSTER FOR GENERAL WOODY
Aroused Ohio State, brought to a boil by the pregame oratory of Coach George S. Pat...er, Woody Hayes, put on two heroic goal-line stands to beat Michigan and earn a trip to the Rose Bowl
By Ron Fimrite
Booze! Girls!
LIVE! BOOZE! GIRLS! ALI! THIS IS FIGHTING?
Well, no. But it was the sort of thing one might have guessed would happen when old Muhammad played Nevada for a non-bout mismatch
By Edwin Shrake
Zora
This courtly bon vivant who put his own stamp on U.S. motoring is still a cool-eyed avenger at the wheel of the car he developed
People
College Football
Neither Rodgers nor Pruitt was able to do it
Oklahoma beat Nebraska on Thanksgiving in the rematch of the Game of the Century, but the competition for Heisman votes between the Cornhuskers' Johnny Rodgers and the Sooners' Greg Pruitt was a flop
By Pat Putnam
By Larry Keith
Sporting Look
Baseball
The phenoms that bloom in the fall
As the World Series waned and other pro seasons waxed, baseball's Instructional Leagues in Florida and Arizona were sharpening the skills of a bumper crop of young stars. You'll see the best before long
Karate
At the nationals Gerald Evans kicked with such beautiful precision that he did not kill a soul—which is the real point of the game
By Dan Levin
Philly
The jokesters have had a field day ever since the bell busted, often because the teams were a laugh, but locals regard their losers with love
By Herman Weiskopf
For The Record
A roundup of the week Nov. 21-27
19th Hole: The Readers Take Over
19TH HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER
Departments
Edited by Robert W. Creamer