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Rated the country's No. 1 team by an Associated Press poll, and sure of its first undisputed Big Ten Conference title, Northwestern's Wildcats almost justified Coach LYnn Waldorf's conventional prediction: "We are hanging ripe from the bough, ready for the knock-off." Their four touchdowns against Wisconsin's underrated Badgers were just enough...
...Watch out for a strong team the week after it has been beaten," has been this season's soundest football motto. Watching was all Iowa did when Minnesota, nosed out by Northwestern last fortnight, uncorked 42 players, rolled up a score...
...Sportswriter Tunis' list of professionals: Alabama, Baylor, Boston College, Bucknell, Carnegie Tech, Colgate, Columbia, Detroit, Duke, Duquesne, Fordham, Georgetown, Georgia, Kansas, Louisiana State, Marquette, Michigan State, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Carolina, Northwestern, Ohio State, Oregon, Pittsburgh, Princeton, Santa Clara, St. Mary's, Southern California, Southern Methodist, Stanford, Syracuse, Temple, Texas Christian, Tulane, Villanova, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Washington, Western Maryland, West Virginia, Wisconsin...
...Hotel, whither he had fled from the home of a Scottish Presbyterian aunt in Ontario. Before that he had lived with his Scottish father, a grocer of Saginaw, Mich. In Chicago young Stewart worked in a mission, gained a scholarship in the Moody Bible Institute, earned his way through Northwestern University by preaching in a Methodist church. A final religious shift brought him, in 1904, to St. Luke's Parish in Evanston...
Ohio State got a touchdown in the first quarter. Northwestern got one in the second. Ohio State got another in the third. Northwestern got another in the fourth. After the last, a seesaw battle between two of the best teams in the country and Ohio State's hopes for another Big Ten championship ended simultaneously when Don Geyer's conversion made the final score 14-to-13 for Northwestern...