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...about the new game is that winning teams like the U.C.L.A. Bruins are leaning on runts such as Walt Hazzard (6 ft. 2 in.), who make up in speed, style and teamwork what they lack in brute size. In all team sports, it is the drama of score-the breakaway touchdown, the grand-slam homer-that makes the excitement. In basketball, the scoringest sport in the land, it is the nerve-burning electricity of the highpoint game. The 1963-64 season saw shooting that would have been the envy of Marshal Dillon: an average of 148.8 points per game...
After Mike Spence reduced Harvard's edge to 4-2 at 6:11 by stealing Smith's pass in the Harvard end and scoring off Sweitzer's pads, Ike Ikauniks took the game out of the Tigers' reach At 19:00 he scored on a breakaway while killing a Crimson penalty...
...Crimson dominated play in the first half as Femi Olunolyo, the Deacons' center half, and Charlie Hubbard, full-back, consistently kept the ball in Eli territory. Yale was able to mount only one serious scoring threat, a breakaway pass late in the half. But Crimson goalie Mick MacDonald deflected a hard short from the Eli attack to preserve Kirkland's lead...
Died. Tupua Tamasese Mea A Ole, 55, joint head of state (with Malietoa Tanumafili II) of Western Samoa. Polynesia's first, and so far only, independent nation, a shrewd and urbane politician, who negotiated his South Pacific island country's peaceful 1961 breakaway from New Zealand; of cancer; in Western Samoa...
Grave Danger. Prout claimed a membership of more than 50,000, and 47 chapters throughout the country, all dedicated to clothing pets in breakaway shorts, pants or wrap-around skirts. How about calls of nature? Easy enough, says SINA; a few weeks of practice, and any animal can learn to lower his pants with his teeth...