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Pretty Cool at 49 Below. Some experts would argue that 14 points is an awful lot against an Oakland club that bulldozed to a 13-1 record and clobbered Houston 40-7 to win the A.F.L. championship. Particularly since the aging Packers were anything but invincible (record: 9-4-1) during the regular season. Ah, but when the money is on the line, there is still no tougher team in all of sport. Two weeks ago, the Packers whipped a young, aggressive Los Angeles Rams club 28-7 to win the N.F.L.'s Western Conference title, and last week...
Shades of Plato and Socrates! Head coach of the Texas Aggies is lanky Gene Stallings, 32, who played end on the last A. & M. team to win a Southwest Conference championship, the 1956 squad that was coached by Paul ("Bear") Bryant, 54-who currently, of course, is head coach at Alabama. What's more, Stallings was Bryant's assistant for seven seasons at Alabama before he took over at A. & M. in 1965. Like Bear, he talks in a soft drawl, and his Bible is a notebook filled with "everything I've heard Coach Bryant...
...marques as Ferrari and Maserati alsorans on the Grand Prix circuit. In place of the familiar old Coventry Climax engine (originally designed to power a fire-engine water pump), the Lotus 49 boasts a brand-new V-8 Ford-Cosworth engine that may well give Ford a Grand Prix championship to go with the victories it has already won at Indianapolis, Le Mans and on the stock-car circuit. Constructed mainly of aluminum, with a single-plane crankshaft (instead of the usual V-8 two-plane shaft) that permits a simplified exhaust system, the engine took a year...
...interhouse hockey season has just begun, but Eliot's pre-season record indicates they could soon put the championship...
Demonstrating the aggressive style which gained him All-Ivy mention last year, Gallagher joined captain Bobby Beller and Johnson on the tournament's All Star team. He and Beller paced Harvard with 22 points apiece in the championship game victory over St. Mary's of Halifax...