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Highlighting the win were outstanding individual performances by Aggrey Awori, Captain Art Croasdale, and sophomore high jumper Chuck Njoku. Awori won the broad jump, hurdles, and dash to stretch his season victory total to nine...
...Michigan: a 34-7 rout of Oregon State, in the Rose Bowl at Pasadena. Spotting the upset-minded Beavers a 7-0 lead, the Big Ten Champion Wolverines roared back on the running of 201-Ib. Fullback Mel Anthony, who scored three times, once on an 84-yd. dash -longest in the Rose Bowl's 51-year history...
...cross-country meet this fall, won't beat Walt Hewlett but looks like a sure thing for second place in the two-mile. The only other Eagle runner reasonably sure of finishing that high is sprinter Roland Tessier, who should place right behind Aggrey Awori in the 40-yd. dash...
Married. Ann Packer, 22, British track star of the Tokyo Olympics, winner of a silver medal in the 400-meter dash, a gold for her world record in the 800; and Robbie Brightwell, 25, sprinter-captain of the British men's track team, himself a silver medalist in the 1,600-meter relay; in Moulsford, England...
Hull is the N.H.L.'s fastest skater (a Canadian research institute clocked him at 28.3 m.p.h. on a typical dash down the ice), and its hardest shooter: his left-handed slap shot zips toward the goal at 118 m.p.h.-19 m.p.h. faster than the fastest measured pitch in baseball. Even his backhand tops 90 m.p.h. "Stopping one of Hull's shots on the pads is like being slugged by a sledge hammer," says Toronto Goalie Johnny Bower, and when New York's Jacques Plante tried to block one of Hull's slap shots with his gloved...