Word: nebraska
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Elsewhere, pragmatists plus a small minority of hawks dominate campuses. They account for about 90% of the students at Williams, 80% at Princeton and the University of Nebraska, 65% at Texas, 50% at Harvard and Wisconsin. Yale has some 800 hawks and 1,000 pragmatists among its 4,000 undergrads -plus about 1,500 apathetics...
Outside of maple leaves and football, the best thing about autumn is that you don't have to worry about hay fever any more. Especially if you live in Nebraska, where goldenrod is the state flower. There aren't many maples in Nebraska, and there wasn't much big-time football - give or take a season or so - until a paunchy, puffy-eyed Irish man named Bob Devaney took over as head coach at the University of Nebraska...
...Devaney, as every Nebraskan knows, rhymes with uncanny. Bob walked out on a new five-year contract at Wyoming to take the Nebraska job, announced on his arrival in Lincoln: "I don't expect to win enough games to be put on N.C.A.A. probation. I just want to win enough to warrant an investigation." Devaney proceeded to win 28 out of his first 33-and improve from there. Until last week the closest the Cornhuskers had come to losing this fall was a 16-14 victory over No. 8-ranked Missouri. They had walloped Texas Christian...
...Organ. If N.C.A.A. gumshoes are dogging Devaney's footsteps, he is leading them a merry chase. He is the most peripatetic recruiter in Nebraska's history. No fewer than 68 of the 109 athletes who tried out for the team last spring were non-Nebras-kans. The Huskers do have Nebraskan Bob Churchich playing quarterback, but he has to alternate with Chicago's Fred Duda. Another Chicagoan, 240-lb. Tackle Walt Barnes, is the bulwark of a defense that so far has limited its opponents to 195 yds. per game. Cleveland's Frank Solich...
This game is going to be a real slaughter. Brown, with a 1-4 record, has amassed a grand total of three touchdowns all year." Princeton has piled up 177 points in five games; their scoring average is exceeded only by Nebraska...