Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only Negro head coach of a major professional team would have a hard time staying out of the spotlight-even if he did not stand 6 ft. 10 in., sport a beard, and wear an opera cape instead of an overcoat. The glare is especially bright for Bill Russell, 33, because he is in his first season as player-coach of the Boston Celtics, whose eight straight National Basketball Association championships make them the most successful team in U.S. pro sport. The only change he can make in the Celtics is a change for the worse. So when people...
...forests and deep gorges of the Colorado Rockies, sleeps the second night as the train rolls through the Nevada desert, wakes up on the final morning in California's breathtaking Feather River Canyon. En route, the train serves good, moderately priced food in dining cars that sport vases of fresh carnations at every table. Not surprisingly, the California Zephyr has proved increasingly popular with foreign tourists and Americans alike. During all of last year, the Zephyr operated at 78% of capacity...
Given this situation, the present student ticket policy is an anachronism. Unlike every other sport at Harvard, presentation of a coupon at the door is insufficient for admission. Only for the two big football games each year does a student have to exchange his coupon beforehand for a ticket, but they are assured sellouts, and seating poses a problem that doesn't exist for 89 per cent of the hockey games...
This is a year for the little man in Harvard sports. Bobby Leo, Vic Gatto, and Tom Choquette formed one of the smallest Ivy backfields last Fall; the basketball team is falling back on its guards for support; and almost every other sport has less-than-huge athletes leading...
...less true in the one sport where the little man has always been a fixture. The wrestling team--driving hard for its first Ivy League championship--has been led to its current 5-2 record (3-0 Ivy), by two of the toughest, most determined little men it's ever...