November 03, 1969 | Volume 31, Issue 19

The Vikings, with Joe Kapp on the beam and the four Norsemen lowering the boom on opposing quarterbacks, are not only leading the NFL's Central Division but may be building a dynasty. Color it purple.

When Coach Lloyd Eaton of Wyoming's unbeaten football team suspended his 14 black players after a bitter dispute he started a controversy that has aroused passions throughout the state

As every fan knows, hockey is speed, sticks, hitting, noise, congested arenas. At first glance the paintings by Richard Estes on this and the following pages offer an altogether different concept....

The Heisman Trophy should go to the best college football player, but the ballyhoo attending it makes it more of a Hollywood Oscar. Dan Jenkins inspects the hopefuls.

Alcindor's stormy senior year, in which he becomes a Muslim, boycotts the Olympics, leads UCLA to another title and joins the pros.

The Hudson River flows from the Adirondacks to the Atlantic, sliding through the hardwoods and soft valleys of upper New York State, moving by such historic sites as West Point and Sleepy Hollow,...

If Colorado and Kansas State knew it, they didn't care as they squashed two Big Eight giants, threw the conference race into chaos and made the winner anyone's guess

THE BACK: Kansas State Quarterback Lynn Dickey set eight passing marks as the Wildcats upset Oklahoma 59-21. Dickey threw for a conference high of 380 yards, and his 28 completions broke his...

It has been said that deeds, not words, shall thunder, but in the case of Emil Zatopek the apothegm may not apply. Zatopek became famous when he won three gold medals in the 1952 Olympics (in the...

A Scottish fisherman theorizes that young Atlantic salmon feed on their poor dead mums and dads

But last week the only Hull on the ice for troubled Chicago was Dennis, as Bobby shopped for beef

Led by an Irish import named Country Support in a kind of canine Kansas Relays, greyhounds had the rabbits running wild as the dogs scooted over a coursing park at Abilene for the U.S. Challenge Cup

The U.S. should even the score against foreign representatives in the International, thanks to a big bay who has only lived here a year

The death of Helen Sobel Smith leaves no clear-cut heiress to the title of best American woman player. Edith Kemp, Margaret Wagar and a few others who were more or less Helen's contemporaries...

Gareth Hayes, an engineering major at North Carolina State, set cross-country course records in each of his team's first four meets. He ran five miles in 25:47 at Wake Forest, 27:16 at Virginia,...

4—Arthur Glowka22-25—Tony Triolo26, 27—Arthur Shay34, 35—AP, James Drake, Rich Clarkson37—AP38—UPI46—Rich Clarkson52—Popperfoto-Pictorial, Sam Siegel-Metropolitan Photo Service60—Walter...

BASKETBALL—NBA: NEW YORK (7-1) breezed past PHOENIX (2-4) for its fifth straight win 140-116, causing Sun Coach Johnny Kerr to observe, "They play championship-caliber basketball." But with such...

TIME WELL SPENTSirs:To those who feel that God is dead, may I submit for their consideration that He is truly alive and well? He merely took a leave of absence and has been spending His time in...

SURFEIT OF RICHES

•Alexei Kisilev, Soviet boxing coach, asked what he knew about Las Vegas before arriving there for a match against a team of American amateurs: "I know it is a city in Nevada, is a city in the...