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Pretty Prize. Len Dawson is the first to admit that no man really wins ball games all by himself. (Proof of Purdue's powerful line is the fact that Len had to "eat the ball" only once the first 29 times he dropped back to pass.) But even as a high-school student in Alliance, Ohio, Len had a well-developed knack of winning all the athletic honors in sight. He was captain of the football, basketball and baseball teams; as a senior quarterback, he completed 100 out of 200 passes for a school record of 1,615 yards...
...high-school junior, Len latched on to another nonacademic prize: pretty Jacqueline Puzder, a tiny, blue-eyed sophomore who had just moved to town from Cleveland. In the early fall of 1953, shortly after Len entered Purdue, Jackie visited the college campus to watch a football game, came home secretly married. She stayed home long enough to finish high school, but she got to Purdue often. Two weeks before her graduation, she gave birth to a baby girl, Lisa Anne...
...Pure T. Len's choice of Purdue was a deliberate move on the part of a dedicated football player. Ardent alumni from other universities wooed him, and finally the choice narrowed down to Ohio State and Purdue. "I decided against Ohio State," says Dawson, "because they had the split-T working, and I wasn't anxious to get involved in that...
...What Len got involved in at Purdue was a pure T formation, an "academic scholarship" (which pays his tuition as long as his grades stay respectable) and a $70-a-month paycheck, for which he turns in some manual labor on the college grounds every now and then-mostly then. Along with most other married couples on the campus, Len and Jackie live in the ramshackle remnants of a wartime housing project that has already served a generation of veterans. The hard lines of dreary shacks, linked to each other by lengths of clothesline, are softened by trim lawns...
...South Bend, Ind., Len Dawson, a 19-year-old Purdue sophomore, fired four touchdown passes for a total of 156 yards, as the Boilermakers beat highly favored Notre Dame, 27-14. The upset, which ended Notre Dame's unbeaten streak of 13 games, was a repeat performance; in 1950 Purdue won 28-14, after the Irish had survived 39 straight. Other notable results: Army bounced back from last week's whipping by South Carolina, overran the Michigan Wolverines, 26-7; U.C.L.A.'s single-wing overpowered Maryland's split...