For sports fans far and wide
Scottish football record. Glasgow Rangers striker Kenny Miller scored five goals against St Mirren at Obrix Park, equaling a Scottish Premier League record for a single match. Dundee United’s Paul Sturrock also scored five against Morton in 1984.
Fraser breaks swimming record without tumbles Australian dual gold medalist Dawn Fraser became the first woman to swim 100 metre in under a minute during the Commonwealth Games trials in Melbourne. Amazingly, Fraser swam a time of 59.98 seconds without
Bikila takes back to back Olympic marathons. Ethiopia’s defending champion Abebe Bikila became the first to win back-to-back Olympic marathon titles when he defeated British runner B. Basil Heatley by 4 minutes 8 seconds in Tokyo. Bikila achieved the feat
Olympic track and field tussle In one of the most exciting finishes in Olympic track and field history, unknown American Billy Mills and Tunisia’s Mohamed Gammoudi both improved their personal best times by more than 45 seconds to upset the
Golfing moment to remember: Jack Newton returned to a golf course less than three months after suffering shocking injuries when he accidentally walked into a single engine airoplane propeller. The 1975 British Open and 1980 Masters runner-up lost his right
