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...Harvard: "The Game," trouncing Yale 17-0, for its 31st victory against 45 defeats in one of college football's oldest rivalries; at Cambridge, Mass. Senior Halfback Bobby Leo rammed 1 yd. for one TD, sprinted 51 yds. for another; that plus a 29-yd. field goal gave the Cantabs their best season (8 wins, 1 loss) since 1920. Purdue assured itself of a trip to the Rose Bowl by clobbering Indiana 51-6, and U.C.L.A. likely came up Roses as well by upsetting Southern California 14-7. Surprise of the week: Texas Tech (3-6 this year) brought...
...Take Bobby Leo, for example, He came to us as a highly publicized schoolboy athlete sought by every college. We had every reason to expect he'd be spoiled...
...Steve Diamond is a similar example. He'd been publicized in Florida just as much as Leo had been in Massachusets. Any college in the country would welcome him, but he considers a Harvard education more important. The mark he leaves will never be forgotten -- he's the finest lineman Harvard has ever...
...plows full tilt into a stream of meteoroids that heat into shooting stars as they plunge through the upper atmosphere. Most years, hardly anyone notices. Only astronomers and dedicated amateurs take note of the few brief, blazing arcs that make up the "Leonid showers," named for the constellation Leo, which appears behind them in the sky. This week the celestial fireworks promise to be far more gaudy than usual. Instead of half a dozen or so meteors per hour, the count in the early morning of Nov. 17 may number hundreds or even thousands...
...seem to) sigh with longing for a return of the bad old days, point out that the team is good this year and alumni want to see it. Yale tickets are not made available to the non-alumni Boston public, but the local newspapers have built up hometown boys Leo and Gatto into the heroes...