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Bribes & Phone Calls. With all this emphasis on brains and balance, the competition to get into college sometimes becomes a desperate affair. Dean Robert Pitt of the University of Pennsylvania says that in one year he received phone calls or letters from ten governors, as many Congressmen, and a host of board chairmen, all interested in pushing candidates. He has also been offered bribes ("O.K., how much do you want?" demanded one father as he whipped out his checkbook), has seen another father offer the university $3,000 if only it would take his son in. In Washington...
...better at the 'Gator Bowl. A pass interception by Tech Halfback Paul Rotenberry gave the Jackets the kind of break they have learned to look for, and they went out in front, 7-0. Tech's defense kept the Panthers' offense continually off balance. A Pitt drive died on the Tech one, and the Engineers pushed out in front, 14-0. Only a 42-yd. desperation pass that Halfback Dick Bowen caught while standing on the back of his neck kept Pitt in the ballgame...
...stick to their regular-season script, the Panthers should have roared right back in the third quarter. Instead, Bowen fumbled the kickoff. Tech End Wesley Gibbs recovered on the Pitt 37. Until then, the Engineers had tried only one pass and scored a touchdown. They tried another and got a first down. A third got another first down. Then a pitchout to Rotenberry thoroughly flummoxed the Pitt defense, and the score went...
...results bode something for the new year: the Crimson squad finished eighth or ninth in a field of 35 colleges, including victorious Pitt, Michigan, and Ohio State. Pickett's was the only Ivy team in the tournament...
Williams, who is also golf coach here, is believed likely to be offered a one-year contract. Like Jordan, he graduated from the University of Pittsburgh. He was a back in the late twenties, and he has also served as backfield coach at Florida, Temple, and Pitt...