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...season has been full of disaster for rival goalies, but Hall, better than ever, has helped Chicago to a seven-game winning streak. Last week he led the league with six shutouts. No one in hockey knows more than Glenn Hall about the violent art of stopping a rock-hard rubber puck flying at 100 m.p.h...
Seamus Malin led the onslaught with four goals in a game that was almost as wacky as the football contest. Morningside Heights Field had a baseball diamond, complete with rock-hard infield, at each end, and a Little League football field ran across the middle...
...MIKE SOUCHAK, 32, has sweated down to his rock-hard playing weight (5 ft. 11 in., 198 Ibs.) as a crack end at Duke University, is one of golf's longest hitters. But "Souch" seems too nonchalant for the pro wars, wields a cold putter, and blunts the edge of his game by frequently packing up, leaving the circuit and going home to see his family...
Early in the year, the pro champion Baltimore Colts lolled on the laurels of success. With a rock-hard defense turned butter-soft, their record at mid-season was an embarrassing 4-3, and only the slingshot passes of Quarterback Johnny Unitas saved the Colts from a worse showing. Not until recent weeks did the Colts turn frisky again, climb to a first-place tie in the Western Conference with the faltering San Francisco Forty-Niners...
Mike McKeever-fast, rock-hard and big (6 ft. 1 in., 220 lbs.)-is the tougher of U.S.C.'s famed McKeever twins (TIME, Oct. 26). Last week, studying films of the U.S.C.-California game (U.S.C. 14, Cal 7), the president and chancellor of the University of California leveled serious charges against U.S.C.'s star lineman. While Cal's Halfback Steve Bates lay spilled on his back, out of bounds, after an 11-yd. run, McKeever had piled on him. The play was over, yet "McKeever not only continued his forward momentum but changed course towards Bates...