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Clasby, who was named to the third All-American and first string All-East teams, repeated as first string halfback on the A.P. All-Ivy League team. He led the league in punting and placed fourth in the country, with an average of 41 yards per unt. In total offense, he ran for 370 yards and passed for another 378, to rank third in the league...
...Bowl game with Rice last week, his Alabama was trailing by only one point. Lewis himself had scored a first-quarter touchdown for the Crimson Tide. But soon, from his seat on the bench, Tommy saw real trouble coming: far downfield, on the 5-yd. line, Rice's Halfback Dick Moegle had broken loose and was spring-legging it up the sidelines, close to the Alabama bench, toward a score...
Fullback Lewis sprang to his feet, dashed onto the field at just the right moment and brought Halfback Moegle down with a tooth-rattling tackle...
Stitches Don't Hurt. Graham, says Coach Brown (who converted Otto from a Northwestern single-wing halfback), "is the first to admit how much he must depend on the work of other players." The other players, in turn, depend on Graham. During a tight game with the San Francisco Forty-Niners earlier in the season, Graham suffered a severe face gash (only his second injury in eight years of pro ball). The wound required 15 stitches, but Graham went back into the game, completed nine of ten passes, and the Browns finally won, 23-21. Next night, Graham...
...Individual football honors went to Notre Dame Halfback Johnny Lattner, who won both the Maxwell Memorial Award (second straight year) and the Heisman Trophy as the nation's No. 1 player. At week's end, playing the last game of his collegiate career, Lattner scored two touchdowns as Notre Dame beat Southern Methodist...