Word: yd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...broken-field running ability: Texas' crazy-legged Jimmy Saxton, 21 (5 ft. 11 in., 164 Ibs.) and Arkansas' fleet-footed Lance Alworth, 21 (6 ft., 178 Ibs.). Says one scout: "Alworth didn't catch many at Arkansas. But he has tremendous speed-he runs the 100-yd. dash in 9.6 seconds-and his performance as a breakaway running back shows that once he gets the ball, he can go the distance...
...been doing his very best all season long, unbeaten Michigan State is the nation's top-ranked team. Against powerful Michigan, Saimes played on both defense and offense, spent more time on the field than any other Michigan State player, and scored one touchdown on a brilliant, 17-yd. run. In the locker room just before the Notre Dame game, Saimes lost his contact lenses. But his sight was keen enough to throw six key blocks in the last half and to find holes so effectively that he scored two touchdowns in a frenzied third quarter that buried Irish...
...around the most dogged linebacker, butt heads with the best in the country. Among them: > Baylor's bull-necked Ronnie Bull (6 ft., 198 Ibs.), a halfback last season, who was switched to fullback this year to take advantage of his straight-ahead speed. Bull runs the 100-yd. dash in 9.8 sec., has exceptional balance. Says Texas Linebacker Pat Culpepper: "You don't get Bull the first time-because he just bounces off. You have to get him on the second bounce...
...packed six-guns, consciously copying the deputy marshals who ruled the tiny (pop. 2,500) town in the bad old days when Billy the Kid roamed the nearby Sacramento Mountains. The race that put Ruidoso Downs on the prod was last week's running of the 400-yd., $202,425 All-American Futurity-Kentucky Derby of quarterhorse racing and, dollar for distance, the richest horse race in the world...
...half a block to watch a race between thoroughbreds-skittish, no-account critters that can't do anything but run. But for the chunky, docile quarterhorse, the cowboy has the fond attachment of a co-worker and friend. Bred for blazing speed over extremely short (up to 870 yd.) distances, today's racing quarterhorse is a blood brother of rugged, hard-working range horses. Match races for high stakes have been common ever since the first quarterhorses were broken, and more than one thoroughbred owner has been parted from his bankroll by a glib Texan with a fast...