Word: techs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...against its opponents while yielding only 35, and which was relying heavily on its underdog chance of upsetting Notre Dame. But Notre Dame's Fighting Irish were fired up, too. Their revered Coach Frank Leahy had been rushed to the hospital with stomach spasms midway in the Georgia Tech game the week before. He would be watching them from his bedside by television. On the eve of the Navy game, Frank Leahy sent a note to his team asking that the game be played "for the seniors and for Notre Dame." But as Captain Don Penza explained later...
Playing the toughest schedule in the U.S.. Notre Dame toppled or tied five major college conference champions last year, and this year has managed to be "up" each Saturday for a backbreaking intersectional schedule that included Oklahoma. Purdue. Pittsburgh. Georgia Tech and Navy. This week it is Pennsylvania. Still to come: North Carolina. Iowa, Southern California and Southern Methodist...
...that arnica-scented moment it was hard to work up much articulate enthusiasm for the project of beating Georgia Tech, unbeaten in 31 games and the U.S.'s fourth ranking team. But by practice time last week, the whole Notre Dame squad had taken the injunction to heart-and was tossing it back & forth across the field in periodic chants: "Beat Tech! . . . Beat Who? . . . Beat Tech!" As usual, Coach Frank Leahy was moaning low: "I'm just afraid we'll get our blocks knocked...
...usual, Coach Leahy's fears were unfounded. Taking the opening kickoff on the 20-yd. line, Notre Dame smashed for a touchdown in just ten running plays. Georgia Tech's defenses stiffened for a while after that, and early in the third quarter Tech went 69 yards in twelve plays to tie the score at 7-7. That seemed to recall to Notre Dame the business of the day; within five minutes it had two more touchdowns. And in the fourth quarter, the clincher was supplied by All-America Halfback Johnny Lattner-the day's leading ground...
...Eastern experts: the unsensational Quakers upset unbeaten Navy 9-6. But the biggest stunner of all was supplied by Purdue, which had suffered four straight defeats. The Boilermakers came to life against Michigan State, unbeaten in 28 games, and upset State 6-0. With Michigan State and Georgia Tech toppled in one day, only unbeaten Maryland, which easily whipped Miami 30-0, was in any remote position to challenge Notre Dame as the U.S.'s No. 1 team...