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Situation in Hand. Near Camp Lejeune, N.C., Acting Marine Sergeant Bruce K. Moore was fined $25 for spanking an eight-year-old neighborhood hellion merely because the lad had conked Moore on the head with a mud ball, tossed rocks at Moore's dog, got mud all over Mrs. Moore's newly washed sheets, gleefully winged stones into the toilet of the Moore apartment...
...Mud, a fickle wind, and a rejuvenated Dartmouth eleven combined to give the Crimson its second loss of the season Saturday, 9 to 0. Grinding out their victory under ragged clouds and torrential rains, the Indians upset all predictions as they produced the most potent ground offense the Crimson has seen this year, and thoroughly destroyed its hopes for the Ivy League title...
...Indians, however, found their V-formation much more suited to the mud. Behind power blocking by Horschman and guard Phil Clark, Crouthamel's cross-bucks and Al Rozycki's inside reverses accounted for most of the yardage in their early scoring drive...
...little quarterback was a pathetic figure. His jersey was torn, and he was smeared with mud and grass stains, the outward signs of an extremely hard-fought game. He walked off the field with his eyes down-cast and almost closed. A few friends sought to console him, but he did not seem to notice. He straightened visibly as he entered the locker room...
...straight Columbia triumphs followed in the next six years, as Harvard football plunged to an all-time low. But the long years of suffering were nearly at an end. In 1955, the Crimson soundly whipped the Lions, 21 to 7, in the rain and mud at Baker Field. Benham engineered the varsity's defeat in 1956, but with his graduation passed an era in Columbia football...