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Otto Graham's Redskins avenged all the wrongs done to Washington teams back to the Midway Monster Massacre by bullying the defenseless New York Giants yesterday, 72-41. The 113-point total easily surpassed the NFL record...
Notre Dame played almost all of the game without its great passing quarterback, Hanratty, who went off the field with a shoulder separation midway in the first quarter, and the whole game without its best runner, Nick Eddy, who had a sore shoulder. The Spartan defense took care of the rest. It triple-teamed Irish End Seymour so effectively that he did not catch a pass; in all, Notre Dame gained a grand total of only 219 yds. Thirty-four of those yards came on a touchdown pass from Coley O'Brien, Hanratty's replacement, to Halfback...
Those were the only Crimson threats. After Butch Vance booted a 23-yard field goal to put the Blue ahead midway through the second quarter, Lalich couldn't get his team moving...
...mainly as a valuable contemporary historian, a journalist of genius rather than a novelist-the composer, as Dos Passos puts it now, of "a narrative panorama to which I saw no end." These judgments pertain today, though it is also true that the work that stood "midway between history and fiction" was fiction all along. Dos Passes' bare, flat non-style, in which events-tragical, comical, pastoral or historical-were impersonally told in the same tone of voice, can now be seen as a deliberate esthetic contrivance. The object? To convey by a massive weight of incident the feebleness...
Quarterback Ric Zimmerman led a masterful 95-yard touchdown drive late in the second quarter to give Harvard a 17-7 lead at halftime. Then midway through the third quarter, linebacker Don Chiofaro recovered a Bruin fumble and Tom Choquette carried for the score four plays later. And that clinched...