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...succession of athletic scandals and disgraced by a sudden rash of dirty play, came to an end last week with a few final boos and catcalls. Among them: ¶The shaky Missouri Valley Conference seemed on the verge of breaking up for good over the case of Drake Halfback Johnny Bright. When conference officials refused to take any action in the slugging that broke his jaw (TIME, Nov. 5 et. seq.), Drake withdrew from the conference, was promptly followed by Bradley University (which has three players awaiting sentence in the basketball fix scandal...
...venerable Ivy League was treated to an angry post-mortem after the rough-house Dartmouth-Princeton game which sidelined twelve players, including Princeton's All-America Halfback Dick Kazmaier (concussion and broken nose) and Dartmouth Quarterback Jim Miller (broken leg). Princeton Quarterback George Stevens accused Dartmouth End Don Myers of deliberately trying to knock Kazmaier out of the game; other Princetonians claimed that Myers had also wound up another play by booting a Tiger lineman in the back. ¶The rough & ready Southwest Conference produced a "grudge game" which even had the eyes of Texans popping. At one point...
...offensive backfield is a versatile, hardhitting unit which includes, in addition to Kazmaier,. Boston University's passing ace, Harry Agganis; Holy Cross' Chuck Maloy, slick ball handler and T quarterback; and Burt Talmadge, a driving halfback who averaged about six years a try for unbeaten Bucknell. --from the Boston Dally Record...
...case of Drake Halfback Johnny Bright, whose jaw was broken after an unsportsmanlike roughing up by burly Oklahoma A. & M. Tackle Wilbanks Smith (TIME, Nov. 5), came up for official consideration last week by the Missouri Valley Conference. After due deliberation, the conference presidents handed down their decision: they had no disciplinary powers and could do nothing about the year's most glaring example of dirty football...
Among the teams who wound up their 1951 schedules last week: Princeton, with triple-threat Halfback Dick Kazmaier out of action for half the game with a slight concussion, over Dartmouth, 13-0, for the Tigers' second straight undefeated season, second straight Ivy League title, 23rd straight victory, longest major streak in the nation; Michigan State, the nation's No. 2, over Colorado, 45-7, for the Spartans' 15th straight, and first undefeated season since 1913; Harvard and Yale, in a satisfactory...