Yesterday in La Crosse
One of the best bowlers in the world lived here, in 1967
In late 1967, La Crosse State College bowler Jack Connaughton went to Paris for the International Masters Bowling Championship. Connaughton defeated a Japanese bowler, 195 to 172, to win the title. About 200 people greeted him at the La Crosse airport when he returned, and gave him an official escort back to campus.
Top college football players were being named UPI “All-Americans” for the ’67 season. They included future Dolphins star Larry Czonka, a fullback for Syracuse…and USC halfback O.J. Simpson.
TV cartoons were going through a super-hero phase in ’67. Saturday mornings on Channel 8 in La Crosse, you could watch “The Superman-Aquaman Hour,” “Space Ghost,” and “Frankenstein Jr. and the Impossibles.” The Impossibles were a rock-and-roll band whose members could clone themselves, or turn into liquid form…51 years ago, yesterday in La Crosse.
