Word: bowle
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Only twice in their history had the Cornhuskers been ranked among the nation's top ten. They had not won a Big Eight championship in 21 years. They had been invited just twice (in 1941 and 1955) to post-season bowl games, and lost both times. Their most beloved player, Halfback Lloyd ("Wild Hoss of the Plains") Cardwell, never made anyone's All-America in the 1930s. The coaches were mostly men who went on to become famous at some other school, like Fielding ("Hurry-Up") Yost and Dana X. Bible...
...with only 38 sec. left. But Oklahoma State wasn't quite through yet. It took a desperate tackle on the 5-yd. line to make that score final and sew up the Big Eight championship for the unbeaten Cornhuskers, along with a trip to the Orange Bowl on Jan. 1-their fourth bowl trip in as many seasons...
...twelve years as head coach at Michigan State University, Hugh ("Duffy") Daugherty, 50 (TIME cover, Oct. 8, 1956), has learned to live with insults. He has had to. Michigan State has never won a Big Ten championship, and the Spartans have not been to the Rose Bowl since 1956. Alumni have written Duffy poison pen letters (including one that was mailed in Detroit and addressed simply to "Duffy the Dope"), and students have naturally hanged him in effigy. Daugherty has taken it all with rare humor. "A football coach's main problem," he shrugs, "is that he is responsible...
...into last week's game with Iowa, the unbeaten Spartans were ranked No.1 in the U.S., needed only to beat the hapless (season's record: 1-6) Hawkeyes to assure themselves at least a tie for the Big Ten championship and, perhaps, a trip to the Rose Bowl on New Year's Day. Halfback Clinton Jones ran for four touchdowns, Dwight Lee scampered 14 yds. for another, and Hawaii's Dick Kenney-who kicks the ball barefooted -footed five perfect placements as the Spartans...
...ROSE BOWL OR BUST and DAUGHERTY