November 19, 1973 Table Of Contents
Booktalk
Still think playing pro ball is fun? Peter Gent's first novel will fix that
Double Jeopardy
DOUBLE JEOPARDY FOR THE BRUINS
Boston came through a mini-Stanley Cup week with a tenuous hold on first place—and the icy realization that it is basically a two-man team
By Mark Mulvoy
AND THEN HE STRUCK IT RICH ON NO. 19
Atlanta Coach Norm Van Brocklin placed his bets on 7 (Pat Sullivan) and 11 (Dick Shiner) before getting lucky with Bob Lee
By Tex Maule
BLUES IN THE NIGHT FOR THE COUGARS
All Southern Illinois ever wanted to do was to beat #¼" & $ St. Louis U., and all it did, as always, was lose to the #¼" & $'S
By Gwilym S. Brown
High Jump
He shot his Sky-Cycle into the air and it fell to earth there—down in the Snake River instead of on the other side of the canyon. Well, so much for test runs; next time daredevil Evel Knievel will be aboard
By Dan Levin
No Ordinary Joe
He has college football's best coaching record, once turned his back on $1 million and always speaks his mind—but Penn State's Joe Paterno does not consider himself at all unusual
Getaway
Escape lies out there in the land of no lift tickets, in peaceful expanses where one skis across the country instead of down it. From the Far West all along the snow belt to the serene meadows of Stowe, Vt. (below) more and more folks are rediscovering the good old ways of the good old days
People
College Football
As Ohio State and Michigan prepare to settle another conference, and perhaps national, title, it is clear the Big Ten is still a misnomer
By Pat Putnam
By Larry Keith
Pro Basketball
You might say he arrived in the Rick of time
The Portland Trail Blazers couldn't find their way out of the loss column until Rick Roberson, a center with sinusitis, showed them the way
By Peter Carry
Horse Racing
Auntie Mame takes it in a cakewalk
Her real name is Dahlia, she is just a little French, but she is a lot of horse with regal credentials. The first filly ever to win the Washington D.C. International, she held back on a slow pace, and then she went vroom
For The Record
A roundup of the week Nov. 5-11
19th Hole: The Readers Take Over
19TH HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER
Departments
By John A. Meyers
Edited by Robert W. Creamer