Word: team
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Northwestern (4-0)-fumbled six times, made two last-period goal-line stands, but got by Michigan, 20-7, to remain Big Ten's only unbeaten team...
...play was not made by End Marlin McKeever, it likely was made by his identical twin, Guard Mike McKeever. With the McKeever twins clearing the way, Southern California crunched 80 yds. in the final period to defeat hitherto-unbeaten Washington 22-15, proved itself the finest West Coast team in years...
...kept telling them I was building." shrugs Clark, winner of a battlefield commission in Europe during World War II and captain of U.S.C.'s 1947 team. "What else could I say?" Clark was true to his word. He went as far away as the famed muscle factories of Pennsylvania to land Tackle Dan Ficca (6 ft. 1 in., 230 lbs.). But Clark's prize finds were waiting at Mount Carmel High School, right in Southern Cal's own home town of Los Angeles. As high-school All-Americas, Mike and Marlin McKeever got offers from some...
...West Pointers Jim Ray (No. 2 in his class), Stan Karanowski (No. 3), Powell Hutton (No. 4), Mike Gillette (No. 23) and Pete Dawkins (No. 10), West Point's celebrated Ail-American halfback and first captain of cadets. Dawkins will play Rugby only for his intramural Brasenose College team ("not with a splash, but gradually"). Hosmer will do some wistful spare-time flying ("All my classmates are in pilot training"). The real job is Oxford's challenging labor: the independent pursuit of "fineness of mind." All are reading "P.P.E." (philosophy-politics-economics), a stiff course enthusiastically approved...
With the return of Jake Crouthamel and captain Bill Gundy to full time duty and with its usual fanatically tough line up front, Dartmouth was clearly the superior team. With the added advantage of having the heavy 25-mile-per-hour wind at their backs for three quarters of the game, Dartmouth handily managed to put over a second period touchdown and a fourth period field goal...