Word: poll
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ohio State, already bowled over by Purdue, faced the prospect of taking its licking of the year from powerful Wisconsin, ranked No. 1 in the Associated Press poll of U.S. sportwriters. Wisconsin had every reason to pour it on; the Badgers had not beaten Ohio State at Columbus since 1918. But once again the beef cowed the butcher. Holding Wisconsin to a thin 7-to-6 lead at the half, Ohio State rallied brilliantly, put on long, sustained drives for two more touchdowns, added a field goal, blasted the Badgers out of the Big Ten lead...
Other winners: Michigan State, rated No. 1 in the United Press poll of the nation's coaches, in a romp over Texas A. & M., 48-6, the Texans' worst defeat in 54 years; Maryland, pre-season national favorite, finally living up to its promise in routing unbeaten Georgia, 37-0; Yale, bunching three last-period touchdowns against Columbia (the winning one with only eight seconds to play) in a wild, Frank Merriwell-style thriller, 35-28; Oklahoma, by a startling margin over Texas...
Next week, the CRIMSON will conduct a complete all-college poll--including the Law School...
Stevenson won by a decisive margin over Eisenhower in an initial straw poll of law students conducted last Thursday and Friday by the Law School H.Y.D.C. and the Law School chapters of the H.Y.R.C. and the Volunteers for Stevenson...
...Young Republican president pointed to repeated "grandiose promises" of federal FEPC, anti-poll tax, and anti-lynching laws and charged, "In all but one case since 1932, if proportionately as many Democrats as Republicans in both Houses had voted for the various civil rights proposals, those bills would be law today...