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ROLAND A. TRIPP Moraga, Calif...
...better. The first player gets into a telephone booth. Then another, then another, then another. In South Africa, 25 six-footers crammed in. Fortnight ago, 15 boys made it in Cambridge, and 19 squeezed in at Hatfield Technical College, near London. Then St. Mary's College in Moraga, Calif, claimed 22 ("the smallest guys on the campus''-see cut). For the benefit of Modesto (Calif.) Junior College, the telephone company got into the act. warily provided a booth that provided room for 32. But the Modesto coup clearly could not stand unchallenged. For one thing, the booth...
...years of football, little (enrollment: 695) St. Mary's College in Moraga, Calif, has had more than its share of top-notch teams. But last season's record was discouraging: seven losses in ten games, and a deficit of about $75,000. Moreover, school officials foresaw a deep cut in enrollments, due to enlistments and the draft. Last week St. Mary's announced the suspension of the game "for the duration of the national emergency." It was the first U.S. college to make such a decision...
DALLAS, Tex.--Dan Rogers, president of the Cotton Bowl association announced today that St. Mary's College of Moraga, Cal., would meet Texas Tech in the Cotton Bowl in Dallas...
...again by fire in 1918, made still another fresh start. In 1921, when it hired Edward Patrick ("Slip") Madigan to coach its football teams, St. Mary's began an era of prosperity that culminated when it moved, 700 students strong, into a $1,500,000 plant in the Moraga Valley. But last summer, despite Slip Madigan and its football team (whose expenses ate up all the gate receipts), St. Mary's was sold at auction for $411,150 to a committee of bondholders for default of payments on $1,370,500 in outstanding bonds (TIME, Aug. 2). That...