Word: snead
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...just as if Willie Mays had hit two game-winning home runs off Mickey Lolich in the World Series. Or George Blanda had outplayed Roger Staubach in back-to-back Super Bowls. Or Sammy Snead had beaten Jack Nicklaus in successive play-offs for the Masters. Last week, at 37, for the second year in a row, Ken Rosewall won the world championship of professional tennis. Once again, he did it by defeating the most formidable opponent possible, Rod ("The Rocket") Laver...
EVERY golf season has its implausible, unexpected tournament winners, but 1971 has been something special. First of all, J.C. (for Jesse Carlyle) Snead, 29, a nephew of Golfing Great Sam Snead and a onetime minor league outfielder who was No. 112 on the P.G.A. money list last year, made himself $52,000 richer by finishing No. 1 in both the Tucson and Doral-Eastern Opens. Then Brian Allin, 26, a redheaded rookie who weighs all of 145 Ibs., won the $38,000 top prize in the Greater Greensboro Open. Hubert Green, 24, yet another rookie, made off with...
...minor leagues-today's rising young pros are better trained than ever. Many are all-round athletes who in years past would have been inclined to pursue careers in other sports. In the past decade, though, the total purses have increased sevenfold to $7,180,500. As Sam Snead, still active at 59, points out: "With this much money floating around a man has just got to play golf. Besides, what other sport can you play for 30 years?" Five of the most impressive of the young pros...
That was just for openers. In one of the wildest trading sprees in pro football history, nine teams exchanged a total of 17 players and 23 draft choices in the first day. Some big names were involved. Among them was Quarterback Norm Snead, who went to the Minnesota Vikings from the Philadelphia Eagles in exchange for a lineman and three choices. Also seeking help in the passing department, the Denver Broncos traded Defensive End Alden Roche and one choice to the Green Bay Packers for Quarterback Don Horn and one pick, while the Eagles swapped three choices to the Detroit...
...ridden and well fortified against chill, threw up on Dandy Don's black cowboy boots and had to leave the frigid press box. There was no question that a quarterback was at the mike late in the second half, when quarterbacks Fran Tarkenton of the Giants and Norm Snead of the Eagles punched over for touchdowns. "When you're in trouble, go to your power runners," Meredith gleefully cried...