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...their history had the Cornhuskers been ranked among the nation's top ten. They had not won a Big Eight championship in 21 years. They had been invited just twice (in 1941 and 1955) to post-season bowl games, and lost both times. Their most beloved player, Halfback Lloyd ("Wild Hoss of the Plains") Cardwell, never made anyone's All-America in the 1930s. The coaches were mostly men who went on to become famous at some other school, like Fielding ("Hurry-Up") Yost and Dana X. Bible...
Captain and right halfback Bill Kerstetter will lead a half-dozen seniors in heir last soccer game for Harvard. In addition to Bowditch, this group includes insides Hugh Polk and Dave Taft, center halfback Chuck Okigwe and inside-halfback Fred Akuffo...
Dartmouth's final score came with eight seconds left in the game, when fullback Pete Walton swept left end for 13 yards to the Cornell 6-yard line and then pitched out to quarterback Mickey Beard, who took the ball in for the score. Walton and halfback Bob O'Brien accounted for more than half of Dartmouth's 220 yards rushing...
...second half, however, was all Quincy's. Pushing within scoring distance repeatedly, it finally scored late in the third period. On that play halfback Chris Wickens did not seem to notice the three Winthrop tacklers hanging on his back as he dragged them for ten yards into the end zone...
Leverett finished its season in championship style. It had virtually no trouble scoring against out-powered Dunster. The Bunnies marched the opening kickoff 65 yards to paydirt and went on to win easily. Right halfback Jim Thompson scored twice for Leverett and left halfback Jim Powell once. Quarterback Steve Ekdahl ran one touchdown himself and throw another to right end Keith Johnson...