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P: As an oakleaf cluster to his badge as SPORTS ILLUSTRATED'S Sportsman of the Year, Olympian Bobby Morrow won Texas sportswriters' vote as Southwesterner of the Year and Texas Amateur Athlete of the Year.

P: The New York Giants' flashy Centerfielder Willie Mays got just what he wanted in his 1957 contract--the same pay as last year ($35,000) plus a promise that his roommate will be his new teammate Jackie Robinson. "I just hope he'll be my roommate all the time," said Willie, "so he'll teach me things." But aged (38 this month) ex-Dodger Robinson abruptly announced that he is retiring from baseball--and sounded as if he meant it. "It was a day-to-day proposition with me all last year," he said. "I'm grateful."

P: Notre Dame's saddest football season in history (2 won, 8 lost) had many an Irish alumnus--including Brennan's predecessor and mentor Frank Leahy--screaming for the scalp of young (28) Coach Terry Brennan. But Notre Dame's president, the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., silenced the pack by giving Brennan a timely vote of confidence: "Coach Brennan was engaged in 1954 on a verbal agreement for three years . . . we are now re-engaging him for next year."

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