Word: bowls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Northwestern, which had been moving in on the Big Ten championship, the Rose Bowl, and its first undefeated season ever, ran into rugged Wisconsin and lost 24-19. Like L.S.U., Northwestern looked better than its foe in statistics (which win no games) but hurt itself with fumbles. And Wisconsin Quarterback Dale Hackbart made his own breaks too, repeatedly riddled the Wildcat defense...
...National Security Resources Board. In April 1951, in the midst of the influence-peddling scandals that rocked the Administration, Truman asked Symington to take one more "load-of-coal" job for him: tidying up the scandal-ridden Reconstruction Finance Corp. Symington opened up RFC records to goldfish-bowl scrutiny by the press, fired employees tangled in the influence-peddling web. It was dreary, thankless work. In early 1952, his cleanup chores done, he resigned and went back to St. Louis, intending to get back into moneymaking...
Unbeaten Mississippi was L.S.U.'s biggest hurdle, and the victory extended the team's streak to 19 games, all but cinched a Sugar Bowl invitation and a national championship. As always, L.S.U. played just well enough to win. As usual, the man who supplied the clutch play was Billy Abb Cannon, 22, one of the most remarkable athletes around...
...victim of a 12-8 upset by Dartmouth last week. The result, however, did not surprise Dartmouth followers, for the Indians showed two weeks ago that they are a strong team--surely stronger than the record indicates. Thus, many fans were not shocked by the Indians' triumph at the Bowl. After all, that unbeaten, untied, unscored-upon business has to end sooner or later...
These Saturday afternoons fans are packing into the ancient concrete bowl of Archbold Stadium (cap. 39,701), the students fret about national rankings, and a battered Civil War cannon keeps up a running drumfire as it booms out each score. Syracuse is now scheduling such national powers as Notre Dame...