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...initial threat came early in the first period when John Damis ran 75 yards on a halfback dive to Princeton's one-foot line. In the next four plays the Yardlings managed to fumble twice and picked up six inches, handing the ball to the Tigers practically on their own goal line. In the second period the Yardlings were stopped with fourth down on Princeton's five...
...varsity scored first with a little more than ten minutes gone in the opening quarter. It started from its own 43 yard-line, and in 14 plays moved to the Princeton 3. Here, on fourth down, Ravenel called a flashy double-reverse which concluded with halfback Tom Lawson going unmolested into the enemy end-zone. Ravenel and right-end Stu Hershon supplied key blocks along...
Four horsemen of World War II met in Manhattan at the first annual dinner of the Football Hall of Fame. Stepping out of one campaign into memories of others, Old Halfback Ike Eisenhower posed beforehand with Generals Douglas MacArthur, Omar Bradley and Lucius Clay. The President enjoyed himself hugely, beamingly referred to MacArthur as "my chief," received a gold medal for "a lifetime of devotion to American intercollegiate football," rocked so with laughter at the khaki, G.I. jokes of Hoosier Comedian Herb Shriner that a newsman muttered: "I didn't think the Republicans were so alarmed over the Indiana...
...down many a college star to size, speak of him with a respect that borders on awe. "He's the only player I know who can run faster sideways than he can straight ahead," says Pittsburgh's guard Dale Dodrill. Says the Steelers' speedy defensive halfback Jack Butler: "I don't really know how to stop him. I haven't been able to catch up to him yet." Los Angeles Linebacker Dick Daugherty, one of the surest tacklers in football, recalls the day last year that he zeroed in on Brown for a tackle...
...Record. The son of a sometime professional fighter. Jimmy attended Manhasset High School on Long Island, averaged 14.9 yards a try as a senior halfback, 38 points a game for the basketball team, set a school high-jump record (6 ft. 3 in.), pitched and played first base for the baseball team. After sifting 45 scholarship offers, he chose Syracuse, majored in sociology, put on a spectacular one-man show in the 1957 Cotton Bowl by scoring three touchdowns, booting three conversions against Texas Christian in a 28-27 losing cause...