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...Player of the Year, who completed 51.8% of his passes this season. He even thought he knew a way. Noting that most teams played their defensive backs deeper than normal against Baltimore, conceding short passes in hopes of defusing Unitas's bombs, Collier decided to take the opposite tack-position his halfbacks a step shorter than usual, crowd the Colts' receivers, make them commit themselves sooner. In the line, he made another minor adjustment, moving Tackle Jim Kanicki over "about one inch"-until he was directly opposite Baltimore's All-Pro Guard Jim Parker...
...universe created? All at once, and billions of years ago, says the "big bang" faction of cosmologists, and not a single atom has been created since that explosion. "Continual creation" cosmologists take a different tack. They believe that the matter in the universe was created gradually and is still being created, probably as neutrons or hydrogen atoms in the lonely spaces between the galaxies. Not quite satisfied with either theory, Professor William H. McCrea of the University of London's Royal Holloway College now offers an improvement on continual creation. In the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society...
Harvard swept the last three matches as Chris Wichens beat Hoffman 11-9 at 177, Ben Brooks defeated Zensky 5-4 at 191, and Tack Chace decisioned Schneiderman 4-3 in the heavyweight class. All barely missed pins that would have given the meet to Harvard...
...sophomores, John Daniels captured third place at 147 with three wins and two losses. Tack Chace was fourth in the heavyweight division with a 3-2 record that included a pair of pins, Tom Gilmore won two and lost two at 180, and captain Ben Brooks, suffering through a slow start, won one and lost...
Jack Daniels, in the 147-pound class, Ed Franquemont, 157, and Chris Wickens, 167, took third places. Heavyweight Tack Chace was fourth in his talentladen division...