Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...NCAA was expected to vote at its convention this month to ban the defiant colleges from NCAA championships in any sport, from NCAA-sponsored football bowl games, and from NCAA-sponsored television appearances...
...NCAA does make the change, as is expected, athletes from schools that participate in AAU meets would be barred from NCAA championships not just in track but in every sport...
...raising test as they come rumbling over the reef. But there are days when Makaha is no wilder than Waikiki-as 441 contestants from as far away as Peru and South Africa found out when they converged on Makaha for the International Surfing Championships, the World Series of the sport. For five days anxious surfers vainly scanned the horizon: Finally, on the day before Christmas, 15-ft. waves began to crest off Makaha Point; competitors dashed for their "guns"-long, heavy (up to 40 Ibs.) boards for use in big surf-and 8,000 spectators jammed the beach to watch...
...faded, stood up in the slot, and looked for his receiver, Gary Collins. Firing a waist-high bullet pass, he hit Collins in the end zone. This was the first touchdown in last week's National Football League championship between the Cleveland Browns and the Baltimore Colts (see SPORT). Almost half the people in the U.S. saw the play, some 80 million of them on CBS television, and the TV viewers got a bonus dividend that the people in the stadium could not have. Instantly after the touchdown was scored, the same play appeared again on their TV screens...
...three Cleveland touchdowns were scored on Ryan-to-Collins passes, and each time CBS instantly reran the play, showing how Collins got into the clear. If football, as many people think, has become the national sport, television has made it so. And the game's high degree of intelligibility on the screen is to a large degree due to the instant rerun device known as the isolated camera...