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...second half, Dayton was still very much in the game (35-30) when Brigham Young suddenly broke the game wide open. The buster-upper: Roland Minson, 22, a spring-legged six-footer and the smallest regular on the floor. In three minutes, using its famed fingertip passing and its whippet speed, Brigham Young ran up 15 points, nine of them by Jack Rabbit Minson. During this spree, Dayton was so intent on stopping Minson that it scored precisely one point for Dayton. Final score...
Died. William A. Alexander, 60, athletic director and for 25 years head football coach at Georgia Tech; of a heart ailment; in Atlanta. A wily, diagraming tactician, Bill Alexander depended on a polished, whippet-lean squad to bring him 135 victories (95 defeats), five Bowl games, of which Tech won three...
...Whippet-racing...
...faster. It seemed to have a wingspread of about 25 feet and to be about 40 feet long, and seasoned R.A.F. observers on the Ward estimated its speed at no less than 600 miles an hour. Spitfires trying for a shot at it fell behind like bulldogs chasing a whippet. More of these might follow...
...make these gains, Japan used a small force-probably no more than 50,000 men. But fleets of trucks, mobile cannon, some 600 whippet tanks and armored cars gave this army its winning asset: mobility on the vast Honan plain (in three weeks the Japanese covered some 300 miles...