Word: finality
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...college and, overcoming injuries and a serious operation, wins a starting assignment. A crisis arises when pro scouts storm the hero's frat house and try to persuade him to turn pro. But the hero refuses. He tells his coach that he will play out his final year to help the team and set a good example for youth. "I rate team achievements," he says, "above individual attainments." The hero breaks school, conference and national passing records, wins the Heisman Trophy as the most outstanding college football player in the U.S. Then, in a slambang finale, he leads...
...draft." Far from resenting the publicity heaped on Plunkett, his teammates regard him as their personal property. "If anyone ever got by me and hurt Jim," says Offensive Tackle Bill Meyers, "I think I'd turn in my uniform." After cinching the Rose Bowl bid, Stanford lost its final two games -a letdown that the players regretted because "it might hurt Jim in the Heisman voting." It did not. Historically, Heisman winners have not fared well in the pros. But that is one trend Plunkett aims to correct: "I would like to start playing immediately," he says...
...girls use a lot more tactics. That's why people who play on the local level relate to us more than they do to a Rod Laver or a Pancho Gonzalez. Our game is more like theirs." The Richmond tournament last month, which Mrs. King won with a final-round 6-3, 6-3 victory over Nancy Richey, was sold out before it opened. And with the first women-only tour booked for seven cities and $82,500 in prize money in the first two months of 1971, Billie Jean can rightly say: "We've come a long...
Prudential-Grace Lines announced that the 300-passenger Santa Rosa and Santa Paula will sail out of New York harbor on their final Caribbean cruises in January, bringing to an even dozen the number of American luxury ships retired over the past three years. Like most former passenger lines, Prudential-Grace will concentrate on freight. Said President Spyros S. Skouras Jr., who merged his Prudential Lines with the Grace Line fleet last December: "It's the foreign-flag cruise ships-they beat us every time...
More defensive than either Cetrulo or Tolbert, number three saber, sophomore Terry Valenzuela, lost one of his two bouts. Walt Morris, Emil Godfrey and Rick Steketee took over in the final round and won three bouts...