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...Dolphins announced that Shula, a part-owner of the team, would become vice chairman of the board of directors. His replacement will probably be either former Dallas coach Jimmy Johnson, who had considerable success (two Super Bowl wins) replacing a legend (Tom Landry), or University of Florida coach Steve Spurrier, who would have less trouble in the N.F.L. than he did with Nebraska in last week's Fiesta Bowl...
...passing game. With both teams boasting Heisman-candidate quarterbacks and rugged defenses, the game has the makings of a classic shootout, says TIME's Steve Wulf: "It will be a great game. But I am going with Florida. It will come down to coaching, and Florida's Steve Spurrier is simply the best coach in college ball...
...between the top-ranked Nebraska Cornhuskers and the number two team, the University of Florida Gators. TIME's Steve Wulf weighs in with his prediction: "It will be a great game," Wulf says. "But I am going with Florida. It will come down to coaching, and Florida's Steve Spurrier is simply the best coach in college ball." Northwestern, a perennial loser and gridiron embarassment, has been resurrected and finds itself going to the Rose Bowl (against USC) ranked number three in the nation. "Northwestern is one of the best sports stories of the year," says Wulf. "They have shown...
...wives was both formal and innocent -- tuxedos or dress blues for the men, 15 cents movies and milk shakes afterward at the PX. "Your sole purpose in life was to develop your equestrian skills," Schlanser recalls. "Yeah, they paid us to ride and stay in shape," says Colonel James Spurrier, president of the U.S. Horse Cavalry Association. He sounds wistful. A first lieutenant's pay was $125 a month, good money in those days. A pair of English boots cost $110, Polk remembers, but the shop "would wait six months before sending you a letter saying 'We note that...
...these horse soldiers what he was doing on Dec. 7, 1941, and the answer is easy: it was Sunday, so he was playing polo. Polk had a two-goal rating, which is good. Spurrier, a star, had a five-goal rating when the Army, on Feb. 28, 1943, at last took his cavalry unit's horses away. The two watch indulgently as local enthusiasts play a polo match at Riley. "Gopher killing," says Polk, as a player whacks the ground with his mallet, missing the ball entirely. Spurrier, a horseman whose face shows ancestry that is part Osage Indian, gently...