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...Coan, the Big Eight stripped the proud Jayhawkers of their first conference football title in 30 years. The new champion: Missouri, which was trounced by Coan and Kansas, 23-7. ¶He had little speed and his batting swing was a convulsive twitch, but the New York Yankees' Gil McDougald was smart enough to become in his time the most versatile infielder in the majors. Last week, at 32, McDougald proved again how smart he was by quitting the game after two fading seasons (1960 average: .259) to devote himself to his prospering building-maintenance company...
Junior fullback Gil Bamford was the brightest spot in an otherwise dismal afternoon for the junior varsity by racking up 82 yards in 15 rushing attempts...
...Chuck Kinney directing the attack, the Crimson will probably move as it has in the last four games--well. (Harvard has scored 94 points in four games.) The starting halfbacks will be Bob Hunter and Billy Taylor, backed up bench-wise by Harris Leroy and Sal Fiscina. Full-back Gil Bamford, who is out with shoulder trouble, will be replaced by Fred Bartl in the starting line...
Others featured at the lavish affair held at the state armory include Gil Hodges and Larry Sherry of the world champion Los Angeles Dodgers...
...those bright years of the boom, Gilda's private life could not keep up with her public success. She had married at eleven, borne a son at twelve, and she was deserted by the time she was 14. She married her manager, one Gil Boag, in 1924, and was divorced again in 1929. She tried once more in 1933 with a Venezuelan diplomat named Hector Briceno de Saa. That marriage ended...