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Among the victims of the Browns this year, in exhibition and regular-season games, have been such longtime N.F.L. powerhouses as the Chicago Bears (27-23) and the champion Philadelphia Eagles (35-10). This week, though it added no special luster to their record, the Browns scalped aging (35) Sammy Baugh and his down-at-heel Washington Redskins...
Other upsets last week: ¶Unpredictable Louisiana State knocked the props from under North Carolina and Halfback Choo Choo Charlie Justice, 13-7, for the Tar Heels' first regular-season setback in 22 games. ¶Underdog Southern Methodist, minus the services of Quarterback Doak Walker (ill with influenza), came from behind to beat undefeated Kentucky...
...North Pole: Montreal, Toronto, Boston, Detroit, New York, Chicago. Next week the top four will meet in the profitable (up to $2,000 bonus per player) but anticlimactic Stanley Cup playoffs. Whether or not they keep the Cup, Les Canadiens are the icemen of the year. By clinching the regular-season top spot for four consecutive years, they have won a position comparable to that of baseball's New York Yankees of the 1930s...
South. Last week Duke swamped Tennessee, 19-to-0. No one was surprised. Tennessee, unconquered by any regular-season opponent during the past three years, has this year lost 13 lettermen as well as its supereminent coach, Major Bob Neyland, U.S.A. If Duke can get by Colgate, Pitt and Georgia Tech on successive Saturdays, Wallace Wade's Blue Devils may be well on the way toward their second trip to the Rose Bowl in four years...
February 24: Showdown II. The Saints march into Cambridge thinking about the ECAC regular-season title. The Saints march out with a 4-2 loss and second place in the league...