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...TOWN, U.S.A. read street-corner signs in proud Green Bay, Wis., and a huge dressing-room poster proclaimed: HOME OF THE GREEN BAY PACKERS-THE NEW YORK YANKEES OF FOOTBALL. Like baseball's Yankees, the World Champion Packers seemed invincible; they were unbeaten in six preseason and ten regular-season games. They boasted the highest-scoring offense (309 points), the stingiest defense (74 points) in pro football, and sportswriters called them "the greatest team ever assembled...
...hitting was atrocious. The Giants left a total of 30 runners stranded high and dry on the bases. The Dodgers, shut out in their last two regular-season games, kept right on holding their breaths and bats for 14 agonizing playoff innings-and then, with a mighty sigh, blew across seven runs in a single frame...
...Crimson triumph ended a skein of 11 regular-season victories by the Ephmen, and avenged a 0-0 tie in Cambridge last fall that kept Harvard out of the NCAA tournament. The Crimson now must be considered a strong contender for both the Ivy League and New England League titles...
...nine bitter weeks, Mississippi had brooded about its regular-season 7-3 loss to Louisiana State, convinced that it was the better team, despite the score. In New Orleans' windswept Sugar Bowl, second-ranked Mississippi got its chance for revenge. "Go out there and take charge!" snapped Mississippi Coach Johnny Vaught at his team. Ole Miss did. Calm and grim, Mississippi tacklers crushed L.S.U.'s running game for a minus 15 yds., gave up only 8 yds. in six tries to All-America Halfback Billy Cannon, who had won the first game with an 89-yd. punt return...
...race, Dyke Benjamin became the first Crimson runner ever to win the Heptagonals, the first to win every contest of the regular cross-country season, and the first harrier captain to lead his team in every regular-season race...