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Elections might not be sure things any longer, but Notre Dame, Michigan and Army seemed to be. They had no trouble getting past another Saturday unbeaten. But a few really big toes were stepped on last week, relieving the monotony of what threatened to be a cut & dried football year...
...Sacramento, Calif., Governor Earl Warren, participant in one of the week's big upsets, sat through another one: unbeaten little Nevada lost, 14-0, to Santa Clara. A fortnight ago, Nevada's star quarterback, 190-lb. Stan Heath, set a new intercollegiate forward-passing record, has now gained 1,758 yards by passing this season. But Santa Clara rushed him so hard that he had trouble getting his passes off. Even so, Quarterback Heath, son of an old big-league catcher, is regarded by pro teams as one of the prize catches of the 1948 season...
...Ithaca, unbeaten Army, led by Gil Stephenson, took the steam out of unbeaten Cornell...
...they held back the giant for a quarter or two, as many of them did, but by the final gun the team with superior reserves of talented specialists (either offensive or defensive) won. In the Midwest, there seemed no end to the invincibility of Notre Dame and Michigan, both unbeaten since 1946. Only slightly less impressive were North Carolina and Army. The pity was that none of these four would play each other, so that comparisons were at best guesswork, and at worst a matter of local patriotism...
Coaches and rival quarterbacks were viewing Frankie Albert with increasing wonder and alarm. Was he five years ahead of his time, or 50 years behind it? As signal-caller for San Francisco's unbeaten (pro) 49ers, he frequently violates football's ABCs by passing on fourth down, deep inside his own territory, instead of kicking. Because Frankie makes it work, other pro quarterbacks are trying it.* His theory: "As long as you have the ball you can make touchdowns...