Sports Illustrated Magazine December 6 1971 Alabama Vs Nebraska Johnny Musso TH3

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Sports Illustrated Magazine December 6, 1971, Alabama Vs. Nebraska, Johnny Musso TH3

Contents
DECEMBER 6. 1971 Volume 35, No. 23
Cover photograph by Neil Leifer
28
The Battle for No. 1
22 Nebraska rallied to defeat Oklahoma and stay on top
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But Alabama, which thrashed Auburn, poses a new threat
28 The Loser Takes $1 Million
Ken Rosewall defeated Laver in the WCT grand finale, but second-place money made Rod a millionaire
30 The Cowboys Are Best- on Paper
Alas, they play on a field where they have folded more ways than a piece of origami. This year may be different
38 A Long Swim off a Short Pier
Marathon swimming is no fun but, as Diana Nyad found, it sure beats parachuting out of a fourth-floor window
48 Skiing Canada's Big Back Country
Choppers open a new land of snow so vast that it could swallow all of wintertime Europe
56 One Last Impossible Shot at Fame
For those who have failed in sports, who never made the team though they tried desperately