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Then, in the first few minutes of the third quarter, a Blue Devil, coming out of nowhere, blocked a Carolina punt. The ball bounded off his chest, rolled crazily toward the end zone and, before the bewildered crowd got to its feet, rolled over the goal line with a Blue Devil atop it. From that moment on, Duke played diabolical ball. They intercepted passes, smothered ballcarriers, finally scored another touchdown to shatter Carolina's dreams of the Southern Conference championship and a Bowl-game bid. Duke 13, North Carolina...
Iowa's football hysteria last week made all other sections of the country look like Quaker meetings. At Iowa City, auto horns tooted all night. Citizens toted players around on their backs, danced in the streets, shouted "Anderson for Governor." Reason: the University of Iowa, in its first year under Coach Eddie Anderson (onetime Notre Damer) and with practically the same team that won only one game last year, had just won its sixth game in seven starts this season...
Paced by smooth-passing, slick-running, drop-kicking Nile Kinnick, the little band of Hawkeyes (Anderson uses only five or six substitutes a game) came from behind to lick mighty Minnesota, 13-to-9-their first victory over Minnesota in ten years. At the start of the season, even the most loyal Iowa rooter expected nothing more than a second-division Conference place for the Hawkeyes. Last week Iowa was in second place, with a chance to tie Ohio State for the Big Ten title...
...There were men on first and second. Second-Baseman Wambsganss caught a line drive, stepped on second base for his second out, then tagged the runner racing from first...
...race horse Equipoise (1928-38) was a big daisy on the U. S. turf. In six years of racing he won $338,610 for his owner, Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney. In 51 starts he finished first 32 times.* He was descended through a line of thoroughbreds from the great English-born horse, Eclipse, which was foaled in 1845 of mixed English and Arabian ancestry. In racing form, Equipoise weighed about 1,000 Ibs. When he died he weighed...