Word: illini
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...alone was not enough. Last week California lost another to U.C.L.A., 27-6. ¶ Illinois was an odds-on favorite to top the Big Ten. Red Grange's ghost, a spindle-shanked Negro halfback from South Carolina named J. C. (for nothing) Caroline was going to run the Illini right into the Rose Bowl. They lost four straight before J.C. got untracked. ¶ Wisconsin had Alan ("The Horse") Ameche, a standout All-America fullback. But The Horse was hog-tied by Ohio State, and Howard ("Hopalong") Cassady, a rampaging redhead, ran off with the ball game. Still shaken, last...
...Champaign, Ill., unbeaten Ohio State corralled Illinois' All-America Candidate J. C. Caroline, turned loose their own scat back, Bobby Watkins, and made a bid for the Big Ten championship by outrunning the Illini, 40-7. At Madison, Wis., Alan ("the Horse") Ameche battered the Rice line for two touchdowns as Wisconsin won, 13-7. In Dallas, for all their fumbles, the Oklahoma Sooners beefed up their claim to collegiate football's top rank by beating Texas, 14-7. In the Ivy League, Harvard's Crimson outshaded the Big Red of Cornell in a surprising upset...
...group of muscular missionaries from Sweden, including the nation's entire eight-man Olympic team, reached the University of Illinois in the course of a 10,000-mile tour to carry the calisthenic word to the New World. The Swedes gave a packed house of 4,000 Illini an athletic eyeful. In turn, the Swedes were given a tumbling treat by U.S. Champion Dickie Browning that left them gasping...
...several handstands, and capped his performance with a double backward somersault which dropped him to the mat with a sure-footed slap. In all, Stattin won four firsts (horizontal bar, parallel bars, long horse and rings), a second in calisthenics, and a fifth in side horse (where the Illini scored a 1-2-3 sweep...
Retorted Gym Coach Pond: "The minute Browning can get off the ground on one foot and clear the stick somewhat over 6 ft., we'll enter him in a meet." Track Coach Johnson, it was pointed out, has the final say on which Illini athletes enter collegiate track meets. "Well," said Coach Pond, "maybe we could enter him in A.A.U. competition." Growled Coach Johnson, who has refused to take even a peek at Browning: "It's a hoax...