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TABLE OF CONTENTS
October 27, 1969 | Volume 31, Issue 18
October 27, 1969 BASKETBALL—NBA: NEW YORK (4-0) opened the league's 24th season by beating the SuperSonics 126-101, then followed with three more wins, holding its opponents to fewer than 100 points each game. The...
October 27, 1969 5—Roy DeCarava15—Eric Schweikardt; insert, Herb Scharfman16, 17—Herb Scharfman, Tony Triolo (3), Neil Leifer18—Tony Triolo, Sheedy & Long, Walter Iooss Jr., Neil Leifer19—Neil Leifer20—Walter...
October 27, 1969 Harry Brandt, an aeronautics major at San Jose (Calif.) State, won the Top Male Pilot trophy at the National Intercollegiate Flying Association meet in Durant, Okla. with a first in the navigation...
October 27, 1969 Sirs:Congratulations are in order for your issue of Oct. 13. The cover shot of Georgia's Bruce Kemp was sensational—we Bulldog followers have been waiting a long time for this sort of...
October 27, 1969 SAD DAY IN JAPAN
October 27, 1969 •Pete Weeks, Memphis State placekicker, on why he was so calm after kicking a 36-yard field goal to beat North Texas State with 36 seconds to play: "Actually, I didn't realize it was so crucial...
October 27, 1969 The Chicago Bears and the New Orleans Saints have perfect records—0 and 5. This doesn't mean they're the worst teams in the NFL (the 49ers are no world-beaters), but the fans are beginning to...
Something is gravely wrong with Chicago. You can't tell it from looking at the town, for Chicago has always come on heavy. City of the big shoulders, as they say. New buildings stud the skyline...
In sunny, windswept Tulane Stadium last Sunday, 80,636 hyperexcited New Orleanians howled, stomped, booed and occasionally cheered through 2½ hours of what may be the country's best variety show....
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October 27, 1969 The purple people eaters of Minnesota have parlayed a ferocious pass rush and a revitalized Joe Kapp to lead the NFL's Central Division. Tex Maule provides the analysis.
October 27, 1969 Where does the Lively League stand, as it enters its third year of existence? The most succinct summary of its status was provided last June 10 in a preliminary stock prospectus filed with the...
Nemesis of a succession of Cuban fighters, Emile Griffith had taken titles from two of them and had the chance to tie a record when he went after Jose Napoles' welterweight crown
October 27, 1969 | Jacquin Sanders
A fellow can chuckle about it now, but SPORTS ILLUSTRATED'S earliest efforts to sell magazines were sometimes more fitful than funny. During our infancy, for example, we tried to peddle copies at...
You know what zap is, that magic bolt that suddenly makes things go right. The Mets had it, and late last Saturday Penn State did, too, as it rallied from a 14-0 deficit to beat Syracuse
THE BACK: Sophomore Ed Marinaro, acting like an Ivy League O.J., tied a conference record by scoring five TDs as Cornell upset Harvard 41-24. His 281 yards rushing was more impressive, beating the...
October 27, 1969 The first Broadway Show League Golf Tournament took place earlier this month in Emerson, N.J., and the winner, with a 79, was CBS technician Jack Mahony. The stars shone only faintly. "I'm...
Nostalgia for a more primitive, romantic time in ocean powerboat running was widespread even as Don Aronow's superboat, 'The Cigarette' (above), made a swift, triumphant crossing to the Bahamas
From James Bay, Quebec, the ducks and geese are pouring down the flyways in numbers calculated to make this season one of the best
Two famous men went to Las Vegas. Palmer's hip was still creaky even in the heat of the desert, but Nicklaus moved his thinner ones to win
Over the Halloween weekend, at Del Webb's Towne House in Phoenix, two top contract-bridge teams will duel for the right to represent America in the World Championship for the Bermuda Bowl, to be...
Disillusion and championships at UCLA, where Alcindor was shocked by student prejudice, became a near recluse, decided at one point to transfer to Michigan, cost his team the big Houston game and...
As every teak-bottomed tellywatcher knows, the picture gets better every year but the sound remains the same. Each major sport seems to have settled forever into its ritual-announcing tone. Golf,...
A dirge played that dreary day for a naive Lothario and horseplayer
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