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Articles by Hugh Whall
The Two-Minute Explosion
There is a certain mystical something about the UCLA basketball team that defies calculation. The Bruins go for long spells at a time looking mortal and vulnerable and capable of inspiring sympathy. Then they put you under with such thorough execution that a witness has to look twice to be sure that innocent-looking truck was really the one.
THAT LEGEND IS LOOSE AGAIN
The campus is imposing enough just lying there, all leafy and self-haunting. The dome pokes into the Indiana sunlight like a giant golden skullcap, the black robes move quietly through the rust and amber of the trees, and the whole scene hits you with a great, intolerant splat of tradition, mystery and nostalgia.
June 12, 1972 Issue Viewer
THE DAY RIGGER MORTIS SET OUT Pennsylvania killed an oarlock, but only the opposition paid the penalty.
RIDICULOUS! THE NFL BY 50 POINTS
If the champions of the National Football League were to play the champions of the American Football League this year or next, it would be a mismatch that might be compared with the two Sonny Liston-Floyd Patterson heavyweight championship fights. The 1963 NFL champions—Chicago Bears, Green Bay Packers, New York Giants, Pittsburgh Steelers, to name the possibilities—would defeat the AFL champions, the San Diego Chargers, to name the probability, by a margin of from 40 to 50 points.
THE AFL COULD WIN THE WORLD SERIES
Last August the Green Bay Packers lost a football game to the College All-Stars, and in that upsetting moment the National Football League for the first time displayed some human frailties to its business rival, the American Football League. The All-Stars who met and defeated the Packers, then champions of the world, were not yet even pro rookies and they had practiced together for only a few weeks.
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