Sport: Scoreboard: Jan. 12, 1962

∙ 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 watchedMinnesota 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.

∙To 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.

∙ 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.”