Word: sec
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last week the No. 3-ranked Cornhuskers ran into a hornet's nest at Stillwater, Okla., and almost got stung. Trailing 17-14 in the last quarter, they marched 74 yds. in 15 plays to take the lead, 21-17, with only 38 sec. left. But Oklahoma State wasn't quite through yet. It took a desperate tackle on the 5-yd. line to make that score final and sew up the Big Eight championship for the unbeaten Cornhuskers, along with a trip to the Orange Bowl on Jan. 1-their fourth bowl trip in as many seasons...
...Spirit flashed past, Head Timer Joe Petrali checked his timing lights, calculated that Breedlove had taken ex actly 6.613 sec. to negotiate the measured mile. That figured out to 544.382 m.p.h.-well above Arfons' old record. Since an official record requires two runs, Breedlove turned his car around, sped back past the timer at 566.394, for a two-way average of 555.-127 m.p.h. Breedlove had his record back...
Everybody knew that Hayes could run: he had won two gold medals at the 1964 Olympics, was the world record holder at 60 yds. (5.9 sec.), 100 yds. (9.1 sec.) and 100 meters (10 sec.). But so could Frank Budd, Ray Norton and Glenn Davis - all track stars and all pro-football failures. At 6 ft. and 181 lbs., Hayes was also one of the smallest men on the Cowboys' roster, and in early practice sessions he couldn't do anything right. "He batted down the ball instead of catching it," recalls Dallas Flanker Buddy Dial. "He looked...
...Bret Hanover: the $70,000 Little Brown Jug, harness racing's best-known contest for pacers; at Delaware, Ohio. Winner of 42 out of 45 starts and $420,403, the three-year-old colt won the first one-mile heat by 3¼ lengths in 1 min. 57 sec.-a new world record for a ½-mile track-took the second heat in 1 min. 57⅔ sec...
...California's Ed Weiner: the $10,000 Transcontinental Trophy Dash for propeller-driven airplanes, piloting his P-51 Mustang from Clearwater, Fla., to Reno, Nev., in 6 hrs. 28 min. 37.9 sec. for an average of 373 m.p.h. Weiner covered the seams of his plane with tape to cut down wind resistance, stopped just once for fuel, landed at Reno with only 11 gal. of gas to spare...