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Last year the team had a dismal record of two wins, four defeats and a tie. This season things could well be worse, and they may never get better, for the idea of recruiting a solid tackle or slithering halfback is out of the question. But the U.S. Coast Guard Academy's new coach was content. "Believe me," said Otto Graham, "I couldn't have picked out a better spot if I had sat down and studied offers for two or three years...
...Picked by many preseason seers to hang on to their national championship, Louisiana State University's Tigers fumed for the first half as Rice's quick-kicks rocked them back on their heels; but they came back in the second half with sturdy, sprinting All-America Halfback Billy Cannon leading...
...Coaching his first game for Navy, Wayne Hardin turned loose a winged-T attack built around the passing of Quarterback Joe Tranchini and the broken-field flair of Halfback Joe Bellino, rolled to an impressive 24-8 victory over butter-fingered Boston College, which had been rated as one of New England's best...
...Known among Missouri newsmen as "a nice guy with a tremendous capacity for work," crewcut, wiry (6 ft. 1 in., 168 Ibs.) Bob White was born in Mexico, Mo., went to the local Missouri Military Academy, then on to Virginia's Washington and Lee University, where he played halfback on the football team. A sometime freelance writer and U.P. correspondent in Kansas City, he served on the wartime staffs of Generals MacArthur and Eichelberger, got a Bronze Star, wound up as a major stationed in the White House on War Department public relations duty...
...Academically, star football players ranged the field. The Air Academy's first All-American, Tackle and Captain Brock Strom, graduated No. 7 in his class. Strom is going to M.I.T. for postgraduate training (astronautics). West Point's celebrated All-American Halfback Pete Dawkins, a Rhodes Scholar and future infantryman who will attend paratroop training school this summer before leaving for England, ranked No. 10. But West Point's mighty Tackle Maurice Hilliard barely managed to squeeze into a commission by holding down the "goat's'' last place. Less fortunate was Navy...