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...road to defeat has been as well traveled around Evanston as a nearby highway. A campus joke: Interstate 94, Northwestern 0. The "Mildcats," as they are unkindly called, are 2-50-1 over the past five years. So far this season, the team has yielded an average of more than 500 yds. a game and been outscored 386-64, 114-0 in the first quarter alone. The Wildcats have not led in any game...
...Northwestern has plenty of excuses: it is the only private school in the Big Ten, with fewer than 7,000 undergraduates (next smallest in the conference is Iowa with 24,000). Northwestern also believes football players should be able to read and write. A grade point average of at least 2.7 is required, compared with 2.2 at other Big Ten schools. The athletic budget was nearly doubled last year to $4 million, but it is still the lowest in the conference...
...Northwestern's football futility is held up as testimony to its lofty academic standards, and successes are usually recounted amid apologies. At the mention of the year Northwestern won the Rose Bowl (1949), it is usually added that the Wildcats were merely Big Ten co-champions in 1948 and made the trip to Pasadena because a conference rule prevented Michigan from go ing two years...
Many men no more tolerant of losing than New York Yankees Owner George Steinbrenner (an assistant coach for Northwestern's winless 1955 team) have been unable to do much about it at North western. Ara Parseghian supplied some euphoric times in the late '50s and early '60s, when the flip-card section at Dyche Stadium reached a point of such giddiness that cards were tossed, spectators hurt and the section disbanded...
According to McLean Stevenson, then in the athletic department, Northwestern has had more than a touch of such luck...