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Eruptions & Clusters. Around the league this season, the pros are displaying a variety of play that college football cannot match. Canny, veteran quarterbacks such as Philadelphia's Norm Van Brocklin, 33, and Pittsburgh's Bobby Layne, 32, still dominate their teams. With a tricky, lateraling attack, the Chicago Cardinals can erupt for clusters of points. Last year's champion Baltimore Colts can field a covey of stars led by young (26) Johnny Unitas, a onetime reject from the Pittsburgh Steelers who is rated the best quarterback in football, throws touchdown passes from the shelter of the league...
...PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 26--Second string quarterback George Koval pulled Penn from a two touchdown deficit today, throwing three scoring passes in a 28-13 win over traditional rival Cornell and giving the Quakers the 1959 Ivy League football championship...
GAMES THIS SATURDAY Cornell vs. Pennsylvania at Philadelphia...
Kabalevsky's conducting stint last week was the high point for a touring musical contingent from Russia, including Composers Dmitry Shostakovich, Konstantin Dankevich, Tikhon Khrennikov, Fikret Amirov, and Music Critic Boris Yarustovsky. As they were on their previous stops-Washington,. San Francisco, Los Angeles, Louisville, Philadelphia, New York -the Russians were strenuously entertained in Boston. As usual, they gave no individual interviews, uttered polite platitudes about music. What distinguished the Boston visit was the obvious affection the visitors had for the Boston Symphony, the first U.S. orchestra to tour Russia (in 1956), and for its Russian-born or Russian...
...Boston Celtics could stop the Minneapolis Lakers' agile, husky (6 ft. 5 in., 230 Ibs.) Elgin Baylor from pouring in 64 points to give his team a home-court 136-115 victory, break by one point the scoring record of the National Basketball Association set in 1949 by Philadelphia's jump-shooting Joe Fulks...