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...Gil Dodds, still the country's top miler, worked out at Briggs Cage yesterday either for exercise, recreation, or perhaps to show Crimson trackmen how it's done. Dodds wasn't just on a sight-seeing tour. He precedes his Wheaton College (Illinois) track team, which he is entering in the annual B.A.A. Games Saturday. Coach Jaakko Mikkola was not particularly awed by Dodds's performance. He noted that the "flying parson" was "out of condition and quite a bit below his usual time...
Married. William Turner Walton, 46, British composer (Belshazzar's Feast and the musical score for Olivier's Henry V and Hamlet); and Susana Gil de Passo, 22, daughter of an Argentine lawyer; in a religious ceremony five weeks after a civil ceremony; in Buenos Aires...
Died. J. Gilmour ("Gloomy Gil") Dobie, 69, an alltime great among U.S. football coaches; in Hartford, Conn. In his 33 years of power-play coaching, lanky Gil Dobie went through eleven consecutive undefeated seasons, drove his teams (North Dakota State, University of Washington, Navy, Cornell, Boston College) to a record of 180 victories, 45 losses, 15 ties...
...highly rated line was outcharged by underdog Navy (apparently nobody had given Navy sufficient credit for the hardening quality of its tough schedule, including such top opponents as Michigan, Notre Dame and California, which Army did not have to face). The Cadets' two prize running backs-Gil Stephenson and Bobby Stuart-earned no new medals; both were below par due to injuries. It took the wonderfully accurate passing arm of Quarterback Arnold Galiffa to keep the Cadets in the game. Two Galiffa passes set up two touchdowns, and Army went ahead at half time...
...Ithaca, unbeaten Army, led by Gil Stephenson, took the steam out of unbeaten Cornell...