Word: tennesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While many another team across the nation can run up gaudy season records against in-and-out opposition, the schools of the rugged Big Ten are cursed by having to play one another Saturday after Saturday. The resulting won-lost marks are often unimposing, but by mid-November the fires of Big Ten competition annually forge a flock of tough, tenacious teams that can meet any squad in the land on even terms. Last week thrice-beaten Michigan State overturned Northwestern, 15-10, and thrice-beaten Illinois did the same to Wisconsin, 9-6, to throw the Big Ten race...
...until Iowa's Evashevski adopted the system in 1956 and went on to win two Big Ten championships and two Rose Bowl games in three seasons did the winged T become famous. Impressed, L.S.U.'s Dietzel last year adopted the attack, won ten straight, and the national championship...
...eagerly as if they were back in College Park. Their campus is global, stretching from frigid Thule in Greenland to burning Dhahran on the Persian Gulf. Stationed at U.S. bases around the world, the students are members of Maryland's booming Overseas Program for American servicemen. Just ten years old, the program may be having as much impact on U.S. education as the invention of the junior college...
...leaves or sabbaticals, lured by adventure or a chance for research. Little else draws them: families-in-residence are discouraged and classes follow the troops. During his year in the program, a lecturer (the same title for all) can end up teaching in four or five countries. In his ten years, the program's Dean Ray Ehrensberger has flown almost a million miles...
...ten more years, Bixler tried to climb the hill. He finally made it in 1952. Today Colby has 27 Georgian buildings, a plant valued at $15 million. Enrollment has hit 1,180. From 53 teachers, the faculty has increased to 113. Faculty salaries have gone...