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Sports writers are quick to point out that in "this great, Ivy-draped grid rivalry" it is possible, and, in fact, advisable to "throw out the recordbook." Unfortunately, this advice is rarely heeded; the book is dragged out almost as frequently as in the World Series...
...never put much folding green on a college grid fray," said one Harvard student who preferred to remain unidentified, "but at these odds, I'm tempted to venture at least $20 on a Crimson triumph...
Today's football game will begin at 2 p.m., but the rest of the season's grid contests will begin at 1:30, following the switch to standard time tomorrow morning...
Died. William Martin ("Willie") Heston, 85, oldtime grid star at the University of Michigan, a halfback who scored 92 touchdowns from 1901 to 1904, led the unbeaten Wolverines to 42 victories, and in the days when Harvard and Yale ruled the roost, became the first non-Ivy Leaguer to make All-America; of kidney disease; in Traverse City, Mich...
...same determination." Thus his high school coach predicts college stardom for Charles Cobb, 17, a protean redhead and grandson of baseball's alltime great, Ty Cobb, who died in 1961. But if there is another "Georgia Peach" ripening, baseball scouts are too late to pick him. Bidding for grid fame instead, young Cobb, a halfback, has signed for a football grant-in-aid at Georgia Tech. Would Grandpa approve? Sure enough, says Charlie, recalling a long-ago story of the day Ty paid a visit to the eleven at Vanderbilt U.: "He put on the pads and made...