Scoreboard: Who Won Dec. 11, 1964

> Mississippi State: a 20-17 victory over Mississippi, favored (by 10 points) and Bluebonnet Bowl-bound; at Oxford, Miss. Trailing 6-3 at half time (on a 48-yd. field goal by State's Justin Canale), Ole Miss rallied for 14 points in the second half, still lost to its cross-state rival for the first time in 18 years—ever since Johnny Vaught, the nation's winningest major college coach, took over as boss of the Rebels.

> Australia's Ron Clarke, 27: a wind-whipped, three-mile race at Melbourne's Olympic Park, in the world-record time of 13 min. 7.6 sec.—clipping 2.4 sec. off the old mark held by...

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