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...last weekends second most important Ivy League confrontation, Cornell vaulted back into contention for the title by outplaying Yale, 42-13, as the Elis' modified wishbone offense fumbled the ball in the rain eight times, losing it five. Soccer player Bill Murray booted three out of three field goals to set the pace for the rampaging Ithacans...
Commentaries by various observers are devastatingly revealing. Voorhis describes phone calls to voters by Nixon campaign workers in which he was accused of joining the communist conspiracy. Joe McGinniss explains the desperate attempt by Murray Chotiner, Nixon's early campaign manager, to get a filmed endorsement by Eisenhower from the General's death...
...fullback Bill Murray, who she kicks extra points for the Big Red football team, anchors the Cornell defense and initiates its short passing game offense from the front position in the Big Red's diamond defense. Munro hopes to stop the Cornell attack before it gets started. "If we can break up the center back and catch him up-field, we could have a 4 on 3 fast break," he said...
LAST ACCOMPLISHMENT: In Cornell's pre-season practice Murray beat out sophomore John Egan from Mechanicsburg, Pa., who averaged 40.1 yards on forty kicks as a freshman. So far this season, in three games Murray has attempted 12 punts and sports a sprightly 25.7 average. Of course, Murray has had a few freak kicks that haven't exactly fattened his already emaciated average. In the Colgate contest, Murray sen' a "snake killer" at shoe lace level blazing into the linesmen on the side, knocking two of them down, and sending Cornell's newly acquired orange half-moon downs markers back...
Cornell: Like Penn, the Big Red are a largely senior, veteran unit. All-Ivy forward Victor Huerta has earned a reputation as a dirty player. but he is good, as is All-Ivy fullback Bill Murray, with second team All-Ivy Federico Rojas, like Huerta junior college All-American, forward Chris Agoliati, and fullback Matt Mauro, Cornell with challenge Penn and Harvard for the title. The Crimson hold a trump card against each, however, playing both teams at home...