North Adams, Massachusetts: St. Joe Class of 1967: Sports

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.

1967 College Basketball Recap

Final AP Top 10

Second 10

Major Conference Champions

NCAA Tournament (23 teams)

NIT Tournament (14 teams)

Player of the Year

Coach of the Year

Consensus All-America

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.
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.
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.
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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SPORTS

"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

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.: