Diogenes' Search For An Honest Game

October, 1970

Diogenes' Search for an Honest GameThey call him Diogenes, the seeker after truth. In truth, he has been one of the biggest bettors on college football in the nation, customarily wagering between $550,000 and $1,100,000 a week on the game.In recent years, there have been only a half dozen men in the world who would bet on this level--$11,000, $22,000, perhaps $99,000 on the kick of a point. (The odds in football betting are 11 to 10, so the bets--on this somewhat arcane level--are in multiples o...