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With Bowl selection committees studying form charts and showing up at key games around the U.S., a whole lot of candidates could not stand the pressure, blew a good share of their hopes in a series of big upsets. Rice could not stop downtrodden (3-5) Texas A. & M., took a 28-21 licking that dimmed its Cotton Bowl hopes. Southern Methodist, another Cotton Bowl candidate, lost to anemic (2-6) Arkansas 13-6. Pittsburgh fell out of the postseason picture by losing 14-6 to a Nebraska team that had dropped five straight. Georgia Tech's prospects were...
...score never reached 54, never even approached it, in fact. But when the final whistle blew, nobody on the Harvard side seemed disinclined to settle for a fine and clear-cut victory. The 54-business can wait for next year maybe....Crimson captain BOB SHAUNESSY (73), playing the last game of his varsity career, throws Eli quarterback ANDY KUGLER (14) for a long loss in the first quarter of Saturday's game...
...Purdue (5-1-1)-the Big Ten's most underrated team managed a 14-14 tie with Ohio State, after which Coach Jack Mollenkopf blew up when he could not find Ohio State's stormy Woody Hayes for the traditional post-game handshake. Exploded Mollenkopf: ''This is the first time in my twelve years in the Big Ten where a coach was too damned big or busy to come around and shake hands...
...Expert Dr. Thomas Hennessey. "I don't think the public's mind should be relieved." said U.S.C.'s Biochemistry Professor Dr. Paul Saltman. And when AEC said later that it hoped to conduct one more test shot in Nevada the next night, weather permitting, Mayor Poulson blew up: "We don't like to be talked to like children! If they shoot that, last shot, there will be repercussions!" AEC called off that, last shot because of weather conditions-high winds...
...Leavitt is the kind of promoter who gives U.S. promoters a bad name. Stocky, brash and 53, Leo blew into Australia proclaiming: "I am the world's greatest promoter." Representing Western Promotions of San Francisco, he promptly made headlines by offering Aussie Miler Herb Elliott a fantastic $250,000 to turn pro. Elliott considered for five weeks, then refused. Leavitt turned truculent. He hinted darkly that he had a tape of a telephone conversation with Miler Elliott that could ruin his amateur standing. Trumpeted Leavitt: "I have one question to ask Elliott. If he doesn't give...