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...passing, minus 12 yds. on the ground. Michigan State's probable New Year's day opponent: U.C.L.A., which beat crosstown rival U.S.C. 20-16. In a battle of Ivy League unbeatens, Dartmouth's Mickey Beard scored two TDs and passed for a third as the underdog (by 61 points) Indians snapped Princeton's winning streak at 17 games, 28-14. Obviously, it doesn't pay to make Arkansas mad. Texas Tech was leading the No. 2-ranked Razorbacks 17-14 at halftime; the final score was Arkansas 42, Texas Tech 24. Harvard beat Yale...
Parlaying an unexpectedly effective first-half attack with a profusion of Harvard mistakes, underdog Penn fought the embarrassed Crimson to a 10-10 tie Saturday in Philadelphia...
...predicting that the Millenium had arrived when Penn opened its season with a 20-14 win over Lehigh. But a week later the Quakers scored their first Ivy victory since 1963 by subduing Brown, 7 to 0. On October 9 Ponn was a 20-point underdog against Dartmouth, but the Quakers turned in a superb performance and lost by only 24-19. They won their third game the next week by edging Bucknell, 16 to 13, on a last-second field goal...
Being held to a tie by Cornell was no disgrace, of course; In fact, the Crimson had gone into the game a two-point underdog. The game was distressing because it showed for the first time this year how much Harvard needs some semblance of a passing attack. Even though the Crimson's passing (six for fifteen, 87 yards) was better than it had been all season, it still wasn't good enough to scare Cornell much. The Ithacans were able to stack their defense and hold Harvard to 112 yards rushing. Without a passing attack to keep the defenses...
...battered Bears wish they could forget last week's disaster, how must Alabama, Iowa and Army feel? The No. 1 -ranked team in the U.S. last year, Alabama lost to underdog Georgia 18-17. Iowa, picked by many experts to win the Big Ten championship, was upset by Washington State, 7-0. And Army, reckoned as an Eastern power, failed to reckon on Tennessee Sophomore Charles Fulton - who threw two touchdown passes and led the Volunteers to an easy 21-0 victory...