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The showdown of the 1967 season
was between UCLA quarterback Gary Beban and Southern Cal halfback
O.J. Simpson.
Meeting on the final day of the
regular season with a Rose Bowl trip and the Heisman Trophy on the
line, the two All-Americas put on quite a show. Playing with badly
bruised ribs, Beban passed for 301 yards and two touchdowns, while
Simpson had a 64–yard touchdown run in the fourth quarter to win the
game 21–20.
Simpson, a junior, got to the
Rose Bowl. Beban, a senior, got the Heisman.
For Southern Cal and coach John
McKay it was the second national championship in six years. USC beat
No.4 Indiana in Pasadena to end the season at 10–1. The only blemish
was a 3–0 loss to No.7 Oregon State.
Tennessee and Oklahoma, ranked
just behind USC in the final AP and UPI polls, faced each other in
the Orange Bowl. The Vols lost their opener to UCLA then won nine
straight, including a 24–13 decision over Alabama that ended Bama's
three-year unbeaten streak at 25. The Sooners were also 9–1, losing
only to Texas. In Miami, Tennessee trailed 19–0 at the half, pulled
to within 19–17 then 26–24, but lost when a last second field goal
try sailed wide.
SWC champ Texas A&M returned the
Cotton Bowl after a 26–year absence and upset Alabama, 20–16. Bear
Bryant helped carry Aggie coach Gene Stallings off the field.
Stallings played for Bryant at A&M.
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Enter Lew Alcindor.
In 1966, UCLA was the defending
NCAA champion but while the Bruins may have been No.1 in the
country, they were No.2 on campus. The freshman team was better and
beat the varsity 75–60 to prove it. A year later, those frosh were
sophomores and they beat everyone in sight. Thirty and oh. At the
NCAA tourney in Louisville, they won by margins of 49, 16, 15 and
15—the last against Dayton in the title game.
Alcindor, the 7-foot New Yorker
who would later become one of the greatest pro basketball players
ever as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, dominated the college game as his
future pro colleagues Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain had done. He
was easily the best player of the year and the tournament.
Back in New York, the NIT said
goodbye to the only home it had ever known—the old Madison Square
Garden on 50th Street. Future N.Y. Knick guard Walt Frazier and
Southern Illinois won the finale, beating ex-Knick Al McGuire and
his Marquette five, 71–56. The NIT would open shop at the new Garden
on 33rd Street in 1968.
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Roger Maris hit
homer number 61, setting a record that wasn't broken until the
September of 1998 by Mark McGwire.
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Wlima Rudolph, a
black American woman, received three Olympic gold medals in fast
running. As a child, she was very ill with pneumonia and scarlet
fever. She barely lived, and doctors said she probably would never
be able to walk again. But she never gave up hope, and was not
only able to walk again, but able to outrun everyone else in the
Olympics to be rewarded with three gold medals.
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In 1962, Jackie
Robinson, the first black American to play in major league
baseball, was placed in the Baseball Hall of Fame for his talent.
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The first Super
Bowl was played in 1967, with the Green Bay Packers and the Kansas
City Chiefs; the Packers won.
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"Three
Olympic Games were held during the sixties. In 1960, the
winter games were held in
Squaw
Valley, the summer games were held in Rome. Some of the
outstanding athletes in the 1960 games were,
David Jenkins, gold in figure skating and
Carol Heiss, gold in figure skating. The
US
ice hockey team also won the gold medal in these winter olympics.
In
Rome during the1960
games, among the US gold
medalists were: world record setting
Otis Davis,
400m, and olympic record setting
Glenn
Davis, 400m hurdles, William Nieder, shot put, and
Al Oerter, discus.
Wilma
Rudoph won gold in both the 100m and 200m runs.
Muhammad Ali won gold as a
light heavyweight boxer. The women's 400m relay
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and the
men's basketball team won gold, too. In
1964, the winter games were held in Innsbruck, Austria, and the
summer games were held in
Tokyo. Highlights for the US team were at the summer games
where medalists included world records for
Bob Hayes, 100m, olympic records for
Henry Carr,
200m, Billy Mills,
10,000m,
Dallas Long, shot put, and
Al Oerter,
discuss.
Wyomia Tyus, 100m, and
Edith McGuire, 200m, were gold medal women athletes. Once again
the men's basketball team won gold and the men's 400m relay team set
a world record.
Don
Schollander won two gold medals in the 100m and 400m freestyle
swim. In 1968, the winter games were held in
Grenoble France and the summer games were held in
Mexico City. Figure skating champion
Peggy Fleming won gold
for her performance in Grenoble. In Mexico City, the men's track
and field efforts were rewarded with world records for
Jim Hines,
100m, Tommie Smith,
200m, Lee
Evans, 400m, and the men's 400m relay team. Al Oerter set a
third olympic record in the discuss throw.
Wyomia Tyus set a world record in the 100m run, and the women 's
400m relay team set a world record.
Debbie Meyer won 3 golds for 200, 400 and 800m freestyle
swimming events.
In professional sports, pitcher
Sandy Koufax, National League, won the Cy Young award in
baseball in 1963, 1965, and 1966. Other baseball greats included
Willie
Mays,
Roberto Clemente, and
Bob Gibson. Star football players included
Abner Haynes, Dallas, 1960, Jim Nance, Boston, 1966, and
Joe Namath, New York Jets, 1968. Basketball greats included
Bill
Russell,
Wilt
Chamberlain,
Elvin Hayes and
Elgin
Baylor.
Arthur Ashe beacame the first black man to win the U.S. Tennis
Championship title in 1968.
Arnold Palmer dominated golf in the 1960's. His chief rival,
Jack
Nicklaus, came along to begin his own great golf career.:
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