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West Point's Coach Earl ("Red") Blaik as yet has no reasonable facsimile of famed Glenn ("Mr. Outside") Davis, though he has a promising star in 22-year-old Bobby Stuart. Says Blaik: "Davis had a long stride and five or six different speeds. Stuart has a short stride and only two or three speeds." But Army, unbeaten in three years, began its fourth season by beating beefy Villanova...
...five-and six-man lines, each having variations known as loose, looping, overshifted, undershifted, orthodox. On offense, the tricky T formation is still the style, with a multitude of refinements, bearing such labels as the split T, the wing T, the QT, the cockeyed T. Said Iowa's Coach Eddie Anderson : "Football is different these days. You don't play a team any more; you play a squad. The trend is to have one team in for offense, another for defense...
...Francisco, before 80,000, California, a team that was a sorry sight last year, scored a 14-7 upset over Navy, which is rated one of the powers in the East. California has a brand-new coach, Lynn ("Pappy") Waldorf, late of Northwestern, and two slippery sophomore backs-Jack Jensen and Bob Celeri...
Sproul had a painful time last season when Cal won only two football games, and lost seven. A good many of the alumni blamed the bad record not only on the coach (who was fired) but on Sproul, who insists that he wants "students playing at athletics, not atheletes playing at studies...
...help give Cal's commuters a campus spirit, Sproul sponsors monthly "University Meetings" in the gym or the Greek Theater. He invites V.I.P.s in education, sport, politics and military affairs to headline the bill (top drawing cards: Philosopher John Dewey, the late football coach Knute Rockne). Introducing a student leader who had just been disciplined for raiding the Stanford campus to steal the traditional "Axe" before the Big Game, Sproul remarked at one meeting: "You all know Don McNary, who has represented this university officially many times and unofficially at least once." That sort of indulgent presidential view...