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Holy Cross is strong in the running events, and at least three races should go right down to the wire. In the 1000, Crimson captain Fred Howard and Crusader leader Jay Bowers should put on quite a show, and Holy Cross' Charlie Buchta could make it a three-man race...
...Buchta will probably concentrate on the 600, where the Crimson's Don Kirkland should give him a healthy scare. Kirkland ran a fine race to take the 600 against Army in 1:15:0. Crimson coach Bill McCurdy may put Gus Schumacher in the 600, creating another three-way battle...
Bigger Steak. Last year's coach, Physicist J. W. Buchta, who is now on loan to the Government for a year, thinks Minnesota is so successful because the team was chosen carefully to begin with "We didn't look only at their marks but also at their ability to think quickly and intuitively. One of last year's best team members was actually found to be on probation after he had made the team...
...quotations from poetry. The team gets together about once a week for an hour or two of practice and, the night of the match, eats at a university training table, where, reportedly they get bigger steaks than those given the football team. But the chief gain, as ex-Coach Buchta sees it, is that "on this program we can finally show our brains instead of our muscles. What's more, the College Quiz Bowl has caused a campus revolution-it's making the bright student as popular and well known as the athlete...