Sports Illustrated January 22, 1968 Green Bay Packers Vince Lombardi Cover
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Reference Number: Avaluer:28148819 | Featured Refinements: Sports Illustrated Magazine |
Year: 1968 |
JANUARY 22, 1968 TABLE OF CONTENTS
GREEN BAY
Green Bay, Handily
Never really pressed, the Packers neatly chopped up the Raiders in the Super Bowl. They were at least in part motivated by a desire to win this one for Vince Lombardi, who was hinting that he might retire
By Tex Maule
WIDE-OPEN WAY TO GRENOBLE
Not snow nor ra...in nor Jean-Claude Killy have been able to stop an Austrian and Swiss onslaught against what everyone until now had been assuming was a French sinecure—total supremacy
By Dan Jenkins
UNLIKELY HEROES IN PALE BLUE
To their own astonishment, the longhairs of Columbia find themselves basketball fans, cheering on a collection of studious athletes who may win the Ivy and already have earned national recognition
By Joe Jares
WINNER'S POTT
JOHNNY BAGS A WINNER'S POTT
At the Crosby pro-am Arnie was overweight, Jack couldn't sink his putts and Dino was engulfed, but for Johnny Pott—who won his first tournament since 1963—it looked like the start of a beautiful year
By Alfred Wright
SQUASH BALLS
THE STRANGE CASE OF THE BALLS THAT GO POOF!
One of the country's largest manufacturers of squash balls thought he had finally developed a Utopian product. Then his world-and the world of squash-began coming to pieces
By George Plimpton
THE MOGUL
EDDIE IS THE MOGUL
If you wanted to play any sport in Philly, you saw Eddie Gottlieb. He ran everything. He's still a busy guy, still a power in basketball and still giving away chocolate bars
By Frank Deford
PEOPLE
DIVING
A 107-foot fall to success
The diving coach at the University of South Carolina is a youthful Englishman who deftly parlays his accent, comedy routines and skill
By Herman Weiskopf
HOCKEY
A battling Yank crashes the big time
Undaunted by his U.S. birth, big Doug Roberts wins an NHL wing
By Gary Ronberg
BRIDGE
My son, the bridge expert
By Charles Goren
SIX RICH MEN IN QUEST OF A FISH
The men pictured here are members of the X Kilo Club, a democratic society that anyone can join. The only requisites are that the neophyte should have the money to go to Norway and catch a salmon that weighs at least 22.2 pounds—and that Pete Kriendler like him
By Edwin Shrake
FOR THE RECORD
A roundup of the sports information of the week
BASKETBALL'S WEEK
By Mervin Hyman
19TH HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER
DEPARTMENTS
LETTER FROM THE PUBLISHER
By Gerry Valk
SCORECARD
CREDITS
FACES IN THE CROWD