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...brilliant open field running of fullback Dune Mauran and the circus-catches of wingback Rick Hudner set up all four touchdowns yesterday as Ben McCabe's JV football team swarmed all over a bigger Yale squad to score a smashing upset victory, 27-6. Yale's lone touchdown came in the last second of play...
...final Crimson score came on a second circus catch by Hudner as he snared a pass which the defending halfback batted into the air. This time Chris Lindsay scored the point...
...during pre-season football practice, and line Coach Butch Jordan, imitating a circus barker, was introducing the Varsity to the new flying-tackle dummies on Soldiers Field. "All right, step up and ring the bell," Jordan invited. "It's easy--watch how Elmer does it." End Coach Elmer Madar grinned sheepishly, hitched up his pants, and charged the dummy. There was a sincere smack and the weight on the end of the pulley jerked upward and slammed into the iron bar with the impact of a pistol shot...
...down-river boys, with a team of 12 men, one of whom was inactivated early in the game, put up a sturdy fight in the first half, making several stands deep in their territory, but on the last play of the half, Pete Ways made a circus catch of a pass from Dave Aloian deep in the end zone to put Winthrop ahead...
Brought before the Circus Saints and Sinners as their 100th "fall guy," Socialist Presidential Candidate Norman Thomas took it from 1,200 guests, but he also dished it out. Handed a "diamond-studded" soapbox and a microphone (marked WIND), Thomas cracked: "I think I know why you gave me this-I'm the only man in America who can stand on a platform. In fact, I'm the only one with one to stand on." Introduced as "the man everyone loves and nobody votes for," the veteran of six campaigns admitted that he would "settle for more votes...