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sb In his seven years as head coach at Mississippi State and Texas, soft-spoken Darrell Royal had never turned out a team that beat the University of Mississippi or a team that won a bowl game. Matched against Ole Miss in Dallas' Cotton Bowl, Royal's Longhorns did both at once. They jumped to an early lead and hung on to win 12-7. In New Orleans' all-white Sugar Bowl, top-ranked Alabama relied on a stingy defense to eke out a 10-3 victory over Arkansas. In Pasadena's Rose Bowl, a crowd of 98,000 watched Minnesota shrug off an early U.C.L.A. field goal, romp to an easy 21-3 victory. And in Miami's rain-drenched Orange Bowl, Louisiana State's hard-rushing linemen blocked two Colorado punts, routed the outmanned Westerners 25-7. Perhaps the biggest winner of all was L.S.U. Coach Paul Dietze, who flew home to Baton Rouge after the game ready to accept a fiveyear, $100,000 contract offer from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.

sbTo keep his Western Champion Green Bay Packers moving against the Eastern Champion New York Giants, Packer Coach Vince Lombardi relied on a savagely blocking line, the accurate passing of Quarterback Bart Starr, and the multiple talents of Paul Hornung -- the N.F.L.'s Player of the Year. Hornung drove past Giant defenders for 89 yds. (including a 6-yd. touchdown burst), booted three field goals and four extra points as the Packers cut down the hapless Giants 37-0.

sb As their Sportsman of the Year, the editors of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED picked towering Jerry Lucas, star of Ohio State's top-ranked basketball team and the U.S.'s 1960 Olympics squad. Said SI: "Jerry Lucas is not only a fine athlete but a symbol of his generation's best at a time when its best is sorely needed by his country as well as his sport."

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