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Only five days before the key game with Michigan, No. 2 team in the nation, gloom shrouded Army's football field at West Point. Army's swift halfback and 1955 team captain, Mike Zeigler, was under punishment, walking with his rifle in the barracks area instead of practicing plays. His offense: though a first-rate student and on the dean's list, Cadet Zeigler had drunk a beer in an officers' mess. He was stripped of his team captaincy and barred from football for the season...
...turned out, neither Zeigler nor any other Army player was any help against powerful Michigan. In their five meetings over the past ten years, the Cadets had beaten the Wolverines every time. But last week Michigan counterattacked with a vengeance. Halfback Terry Barr slammed through the porous Army line for the first touchdown soon after the kickoff, then sprinted 82 yards to score a second time. Michigan added two more touchdowns in the fourth quarter. Butter-fingered Army lost eight of its nine fumbles, completed only one pass all afternoon, while Michigan romped to a 26-2 triumph...
...Botsford on the four to start the Crimson scoring at 9:48 of the opening period. Then, 13 minutes through the second period Botsford, on fourth down, pitched 13 yards to Bob Morrison in the left flat; he took the toss on Columbia's six, cluded halfback Art Wilson, and went across standing...
...Crimson was losing 12-13 in the fourth quarter when Maguire grabbed a pass from the Dean quarterback, which had gone only four feet from the opposing player's hands. Halfback Ray Henry kicked the point successfully...
Later this fall the Crimson varsity plays both these teams, which are in a rebuilding stage and depend largely on the aggressive but often faulty play of numerous sophomores. Two of the Bruins' stars, halfback Tommy "T.D." Thompson and all-Ivy League tackle Jimmy McGuiness, agreed that the Green "hit harder than Yale or Columbia and their backs ran surprisingly well." But Thompson queried, "We certainly tied up Beagle, didn't we?" And they did. His passes gained only 79 yards Saturday, compared to his previous average of more than 125 per game...