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Heading East again, the "Fighting Illini" on January 1 at Champaign, Illinois. Under a new coach, Harry Combes, and with only Fred Green of the famous Whiz Kids returning, Orange and Blue prospects at the start of the season were dim indeed...
...Evanston, ΙΙΙ., Michigan, the nation's top rated team, with hardly a huff or puff, blew Northwestern down, 49-21. ¶At South Bend, Notre Dame, with Star Johnny Lujack under wraps for most of the game, trounced Nebraska, 31-0. Illinois met Minnesota at Champaign, ΙΙΙ., in the week's only big game between unbeaten teams, and Minnesota lost, 40-13. The South's three best unbeaten teams, Texas, Southern Methodist and Georgia Tech, had no trouble keeping their escutcheons unsmudged...
...Illinois at Champaign...
George Stoddard handles all his jobs by split-second scheduling. Last week, at his induction, he had to gallop from Chicago and the emergency Navy Pier campus he had made available for 3,800 ex-G.I.s, to Urbana-Champaign, 120 miles away, where he educates 18,500 more students. The high point of the day was a speech by Veterans Administrator Omar Bradley, a Stoddard friend and an old math teacher himself...
...Born in Champaign, Illinois, professor Fraser was educated at Harvard, receiving his B.S. degree in 1919 and the M.B.A. degree from the Business School two years later. He was a member of the faculty at the Business School from...