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...other building is a ruined temple, the plaster facade coming away at several points disclosing the brick construction. The doorway is wide, almost square, and is hung with double scarlet curtains. These are closed and set off the six bottles of milk ranged before them. There is also another newspaper. In a corner lies an untidy heap of rags, and other miscellaneous trash...
Rutgers is particularly well off in the lower weights. The Scarlet Knights' best man, and captain, is Jim Janish, who will meet Harvard captain George Doub...
...children gamboling in village nurseries, smiling Kazakh herdsmen shearing fat sheep on the Altinshoki steppes, clear-eyed workmen scrambling among the wooden scaffolding of a thousand construction sites. Important guests are dazzled by the enormous parades sweeping into Peking's Tien An Men square with a swirling of scarlet flags, the cheerful explosion of strings of firecrackers whirled on poles, the rhythmic thunder of drums and cymbals. Healthy, pig-tailed girls dance by in a flutter of pastel scarves; fit-looking soldiers march past in cadenced columns; phalanxes of workers with banners roar out slogans extolling the greatness...
Rutgers, with an assist from Princeton, began the game of football back in 1869, and has since had considerable cause to regret it. Save for 1876, which scarcely counts-Rutgers had a severely truncated schedule of one game that year-the Scarlet Knights have never gone through a season undefeated. Down through the years they scraped together a barely respectable record, just a shade over the .500 mark, and even when they did come close to a perfect season, they managed to blow their chances at the last moment. In 1960 they thundered undefeated into the final game, only...
Then, sparked by Halfback Pierce Frauenheim and second-string Quarterback Bill Speranza, the Scarlet Knights began to do rather than die for dear old Rutgers. On the first play of the final period, Speranza flipped a 10-yd. touchdown pass. Three plays later, Frauenheim intercepted a pass on Columbia's 48-yd. line to set up a drive capped by Speranza's 1-yd. dive into the end zone. Still rolling, Rutgers drove 60 yds. for the tiebreaker. Two plays later, Frauenheim plucked off another Columbia pass and raced 30 yds. for the Scarlet Knights' fourth touchdown...