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...Fabiola" drags along slowly until the very end. But a rip-roaring finale in which literally hundreds of Christians are burned, tortured, and easten by lions in the Roman Coliseum makes the film worth easily three times the price of admission...
...James Cox Brady's Casemate, the $36,-850 Metropolitan Handicap, over Piet (by half a length); at New York. ¶Manhattan College, a double (440-yds. and 880-yds.), in the Coliseum Relays; at Los Angeles. Seton Hall's Andy Stanfield also doubled (100-yd. dash and 220-yd. low hurdles), and the Illinois Athletic Club's Rev. Bob Richards pole-vaulted 15 ft. (for the ninth time). ¶The University of Delaware's lacrosse team, over Western Maryland, 17-2, as Delaware's Don Swan scored eleven goals to set a national scoring record...
...Fannin' and battin'" the shanks of a red-eyed Brahman bull, Harley May of Sul Ross College came winging out of the chute, absorbed three spine-cracking jolts, and ended up flat on his back on the tanbark of Fort Worth's Will Rogers Coliseum. Grinning sheepishly, May got up, dusted off his skintight blue jeans and admitted ruefully: "I didn't do so good...
...championship, backed by the fast-growing 41-college association, was not on the grand scale of the famed Pendleton Roundup, but even the old pros admitted that the kids put on quite a show. Before the competition began, the Hardin-Simmons College cowboy band came whooping into the Coliseum, followed by the Apache Belles, a 34-girl marching and dancing group from Tyler Junior College, dressed in abbreviated white satin outfits and Indian headdress. Down behind the riding chutes, the college cowboys carefully checked over their equipment-from the slick "piggin strings" (for tying calves) to the larger pieces...
Last week, after some early-season breathers, Kentucky faced its first big test from a University of Kansas team coached by Rupp's own onetime teacher, Phog Allen.* A record 13,000 fans filled Kentucky's new Memorial Coliseum to watch the duel between Kentucky's Spivey (rhymes with ivy) and Clyde Lovellette, the Kansas skyscraper (6 ft. 9 in.) who set a Big Seven record of 545 points in 25 games last year. Before the game Rupp warned reporters: "As Spivey goes, we go." Spivey went beautifully...