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...hopped into his private plane and flew down to Mexico's Agua Caliente to ride three more winners. When Bay Meadows closes, he intends to ride for two weeks at a small-time, mile track at Phoenix. He wanted to be dead sure of keeping ahead of Steve Brooks, who was so close on his heels that Johnny Longden could only express his feelings on the matter with a connoisseur's choice of obscenities...
...Bill Henry, Steve Davis, Bill Brady, Chip Gannon, and the still ineligible Walt McCurdy, Barclay has five experienced guards, but of the coach's 12-man squad, only Cliff Crosby has always been a forward. Captain George Hauptfuhrer was shifted from center to the other forward slot when Barclay acquired two other capable pivot men in Bill Prior and John-Rockwell...
...strips, says Waugh, abstract bits of American experience and endow them with a sort of idealized timelessness. Dick Tracy always catches the crooks he chases; The Nebbs always quarrel; Blondie and Dagwood always make up. It is part of the American daydream, he thinks, to be as courageous as Steve Canyon, as sexually irresistible as Smilin' Jack, as honest as Joe Palooka. In his harried, uncertain life, the American newspaper reader is greatly sustained by the certainties he finds in the comic strip, the movies-and nowhere else...
Barclay has four veteran guards, Steve Davis, Bill Henry, Bill Brady, and Chip Gannon--all of practically equal ability. While it's a toss-up between the first three to see who starts against the Engineers, Barclay figures it will take time to round Gannon's football knees into shape...
...East, Penn State was the only big team still unbeaten and untied. Their leading candidate for All-America: Steve Suhey, a guard. Another contender: Columbia's End Bill Swiacki...