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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heavy smokers eventually died of the disease. Wanted, said critics of these studies, was anatomical evidence showing the gradual development of cancer in smokers' lungs. Dr. Auerbach's previous reports (1955 and 1957) on this development had been challenged on technical grounds. This time, his four-man team was determined to plug every conceivable research loophole...
Opening the season against Wake Forest, Lucas shook off his first-half jitters ("Man, I was scared") to sink 16 points, monopolize the backboards with 28 rebounds. Final score: Ohio State 77, Wake Forest 69. Still, the team and Lucas looked so rocky that Coach Taylor could not sleep the following night, finally dozed off on the living-room floor, where he had thrown himself down to brood...
Coach Taylor need not have lost any sleep. Next night against Memphis State, Lucas was a spring-legged hotshot. In one span of 77 sec., he scored 8 points (2 tap-ins, 4 foul shots), finished with 34 points in his team's 94-55 victory. Two nights later against Pittsburgh, Big Luke was the key of Ohio State's tight man-to-man defense. On offense, he roved the pivot, scoring 24 points (with a fantastic shooting average of 73% from the floor), directing teammates in his deep, sober voice ("Come on in, John, come in"). Final...
...nation's TV football fans spent the afternoon frantically flicking from the Colts-Forty-Niners game on CBS to NBC, where undefeated Syracuse, intent on disproving the taunt that it had played only so-so opposition, was busy wrecking a U.C.L.A. team that had upended high ranking Southern California two weeks earlier. The game was never even close. Syracuse's "Sizable Seven" linemen (average weight: 216 lbs.) scornfully brushed aside U.C.L.A.'s specially designed trap plays, held U.C.L.A.'s offense to a humiliating minus 13 yds. on the ground. Led by German-born Team Captain Gerhard...
...after he became the No. 1 draft choice of the National Football League (selecting team: Los Angeles), Halfback Billy Cannon, 22, Louisiana State's sprinting strongman (6 ft. 1 in., 207 lbs., 100 yds. in 9.4 sec.) completed his sweep of football's two highest honors by winning the Heisman Memorial Trophy as "the outstanding player...