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...Edmund Burke (on hearing from William Pitt that "this country and its constitution are safe to the Day of Judgment") : "It's the day of no judgment that I am afraid...
...Fordham (beaten only by pure little Pitt) will meet once-beaten Missouri in New Orleans' Sugar Bowl...
Irked at the unfavorable press that ensued, Chancellor Bowman first engineered the dissolution of the Alumni Athletic Council, put Pitt football under faculty control. Then, three years ago, after the freshman football team went on strike be cause they were asked to work for their pay (then $48 a month), he introduced the Code Bowman. Stricter than most college codes - even those of the Big Ten and the Big Three - the Code Bowman stipulates that no coach may approach a high-school athlete before his entrance to Pitt, that athletes may receive no scholarship except those awarded for scholastic attainments...
...Coach Sutherland resigned,* snorting that the Code Bowman was "athletic evangelism gone wild." Pitt football, coached by cheery Charley Bowser, went into a decline...
...last week's amazing victory over Fordham, this season had been Pitt's worst since 1903. The victory was manna for Chancellor Bowman...