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...second-half rally by the freshmen slackened after it had put the team in the lead for several minutes and allowed Tufts to register its final six-point margin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Junior Varsity Victorious, 105-54; Freshmen Downed by Tufts, 71-65 | 12/13/1954 | See Source »

...Middies pushed favored Notre Dame all over the field. On defense Navy's Ron Beagle seemed like a fifth man in the Irish backfield; on offense he made Quarterback George Welsh look like the hottest passer around. Badly mauled, the Irish just managed to hang on to their six-point lead. But the going was so rough during the last few minutes that Notre Dame Quarterback Ralph Guglielmi had to run out the clock by slithering through the mud toward his own goal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Mid-Season | 11/8/1954 | See Source »

...addition to Stadium mud, the Ohio backs will face a solid Crimson line, perhaps the most encouraging part of the local football picture. Encouraging enough, in fact, to rate the varsity at least a six-point pre-game advantage...

Author: By Jack Rosenthal, | Title: Varsity to Face Ohio Ground Attack On Muddy Stadium Field at 2 p.m. | 10/30/1954 | See Source »

...YORK, N. Y., October 16--Installed as six-point underdogs in what may prove the pivotal game of the 1953 season, the undefeated Crimson eleven staged a brisk, confident workout at Baker Field today in preparation for its Ivy opener with Columbia tomorrow...

Author: By Ronald P. Kriss, | Title: Varsity Meets Columbia in New York Today for Ivy Opener | 10/17/1953 | See Source »

...California, ranked fourth in the nation and trained in an offense that had not been shut out in 60 games, was meeting an old enemy: seventh-ranked University of Southern California (U.S.C.), owner of a bone-rattling defense that had yielded only 19 points in five games. California, a six-point favorite, had the three top-ranked running backs of the Pacific Coast, including All-America Candidate Johnny Olszewski; U.S.C., a conservative single-wing team, had a middleweight (5 ft. 9 in., 164 Ibs.) tailback named Jimmy Sears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Jimmy-on-the-Spot | 11/3/1952 | See Source »

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