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...Uncle Adrian, "and if you let it get clogged your heart'll bust"). He writes with poetic affection for the countryside: "It was chalk country. Except where the trees stood in neat clumps upon the hills and where a belt of cornfields crept up among the contours, the turf and tilth were thin upon the rock. Cut this country anywhere in lane or ditch and it bled white...
After 100 tons of snow had been cleared off the field at Knoxville, Tennessee's Cotton Bowl-bound Volunteers threw themselves on the frozen turf to recover eight of Kentucky's nine fumbles, then whipped the unbeaten Wildcats, 7-0, in 15° weather. Some Southern comfort was provided after the game with the announcement that Kentucky, despite its defeat, had been chosen to play in the Sugar Bowl. Probable opponent: Oklahoma, which won its 30th straight by downing Nebraska...
Yale was hindered by the wet turf also. The intricate Eli wing-T, with a halfback in motion, depends to a great extent on quick turns and shifts, which were made impossible by the condition of the field. In addition, linemen were unable to pull our fast enough to lead effective interference...
...today will battle it out on the turf, and the men in the stands who will cheer them on to glory, will in a few years march hand in hand (figuratively speaking, of course) into the larger world that counts for so much more than sport. They will remember their happy undergraduate days, and they will be fired with a feeling of sportsmanship. The Duke of Wellington said that the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton; we would amend his inspired sentence to read: the battle of life is to be won on the playing...
...double his plant. He built two spanking new dormitories, new chemistry and engineering buildings, an indoor swimming pool, a health center, an astronomy laboratory-seven new buildings in all. He spent nearly $1,000,000 streamlining the older buildings from top to bottom, planting clumps of shrubbery, restoring turf to the lawns. Partly because of the G.I. bill, but perhaps as much because of John Baker, university enrollments more than tripled...