Word: michigan
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SOME of us were a little afraid that perhaps the revealing cover story on Michigan State Football Coach Duffy Daugherty and the detailed diagrams of some of his key plays (TIME, Oct. 8) might have given powerful Michigan the edge to win again this year. Gamblers around New York made Michigan a 2½-to-5-point favorite, but Duffy's team knocked over the Wolverines (see SPORT) and now appear headed for another Big Ten title...
Biggie and hard-working Line Coach Daugherty supplied some exceptionally well-trained gorillas. Overnight, State became a major football power. All the offstage opposition mustered by its Ann Arbor rival, the University of Michigan, could not keep it out of the Big Ten. In a league where almost every school is a symbol of state pride, the rivalry between Michigan and M.S.U. became understandably bitter. This week the two rivals meet again, and Michigan's campus will be littered with signs reading "Cream MOO U," an unkind reference to State's beginnings as a cow college...
...ball on Yale's 3-yd. line. Pittsburgh, nearly upset by West Virginia last week, came from behind to beat Syracuse 14-7. Southern Methodist, upset victor over Notre Dame, threw a scare into favored Georgia Tech, but lost 9-7. Two favorites won according to form: Michigan, 42-13, over penalty-plagued U.C.L.A., and Oklahoma, which smothered North Carolina 36-0 for its 31st straight victory...
...also the only college in the area to take in Negroes on the undergraduate level. ¶Appointment of the week: Carroll Vincent Newsom, 52, to succeed Henry T. Heald as president of big (37.000 students) New York University. Carroll Newsom took his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan, eventually became not only a top mathematics teacher, but a prolific producer of mathematics texts. At 29, he was head of the mathematics department at the University of New Mexico. In 1944 he had the same rank at Oberlin College. By 1955, when N.Y.U. asked him to become its executive vice president...
...where state supreme court ruled against General Electric Co. in suit brought to stop discount house from cut-rating G.E. appliances, declared that Fair Trade, in effect since 1937, runs counter to Utah's constitution. Other states where Fair Trade has been dropped: Nebraska, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Michigan, Oregon, Virginia, Louisiana...