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...League last year, by a 7-5 score in overtime. Finally on Wednesday, they almost beat Princeton, Ivy champion for the last 7 years and winner of 39 straight league games, before losing 8-7. Overall their record is 6-2; the only other defeat, a 9-7 squeaker came against Maryland, ranked second in the nation...
...only regular-season game Royal's infantrymen have lost in three years was an 0-6 squeaker to Texas Christian in 1961. "T.C.U. is like a cockroach," Royal complained then. "It isn't what he eats or carries off, but what he falls into and messes up." For five straight weeks this season, Texas has ranked as the nation's No. 1 college team, and last week it avenged that lone T.C.U. defeat by holding T.C.U. to 34 yds. on the ground while Texas Quarterback Duke Carlisle mixed straightforward runs with pass-option plays to gain...
...play, Staubach turned it into a rout, passing for one touchdown, running for two others. That was enough for Hardin. Staubach was his boy. When Navy played mighty Southern California, the nation's No. 1 team, the point spread was 17; Navy lost, but in a 13-6 squeaker. And then came Army. "If we have a perfect season and lose to Army," says Athletic Director William Busik, "then we're lousy...
That first year. Lombardi's adrenaline-filled Packers won seven of twelve games -including, admits Hornung. "a fistful that we had no business winning." In 1960. they won the Western Conference championship with an 8-4 record, dropped a 17-13 squeaker to Philadelphia in the X.F.L. championship playoff. Last year the Packers went all the way-and the title game, praise be, was at Green Bay. Nothing like it has ever been seen, before or since. Wrote New York Herald Tribune Columnist Red Smith, after the Giants were demolished: ''The poisonous polish of the Packers...
...spot on every major poll at season's end. U.S.C.'s Jan. 1 Rose Bowl date with Wisconsin, rated No. 2 in the nation, should produce the college game of the year. Best in the East: Penn State, which lost only one game (a 9-6 squeaker to Army) and carried off the Lambert Trophy...