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Coach RIP ENGLE (shown here with captain NORM IACUELE) will be out to crack a jinx which has so far kept him victory-less on Soldiers Field...
...Frankie, like Teammates Norm Standlee and Bruno Banducci, is an alumnus of Stanford's famed 1940 "wow boys," who went to the Rose Bowl and won. In those days, West Coasters brazenly mentioned him in the same breath with the great Sammy Baugh, prince of passers. But Frankie joined the Navy, got married, and didn't fool much with football until two years ago. Now he is firing his left-handed passes as accurately as the great right-handed Sammy. So far this season, Albert has completed 108 passes in 180 attempts, an average of .600. Average gain...
Despite popular misconceptions of the "Colossus on the Hudson," undergraduate enrollment totals only 2,000--up from a pre-war norm of 1,750. But because of the confusion between small Columbia College and huge Columbia University, and because of the college's pre-eminent position in the world's largest city, people have come to expect big things of the institution which once turned out such graduates as Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, Robert Livingston, and Gouverneur Morris...
...exists under the convention that it is-just as in certain families there is an agreement not to notice that a "peculiar" aunt wears three hats to the breakfast table and a sealskin coat in the bathtub. Waugh's world simply ignores that convention. Lunacy is its norm, evil is without guilt, pain without pathos, and tragedy is comedy. Yet, in lucid intervals, the real world and Waugh's world are seen in part to be one. The degree to which they are so measures Evelyn Waugh's ironic vision of mankind...
Third baseman Red Matthews and catcher Norm Felske are also aggressive hitters. The controversial Art Moher, leading off for Yale, curiously is leading the team in home runs...