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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1965
Page
11
A pair of all-star football showcases headline Saturday's action with six all-Americas split between North and South in Miami and the Blue-Gray game expected to follow. These exhibitions serve as appetisers for next week's major bowls.
Two all star fixtures will air on Saturday. The North South Shrine at Miami appears on KCRG ABC TV at 3 30 Iowa time. The Blue Gray game in Montgomery Alabama is on CBS WMU TV at 3 P M featuring Iowa players Dave Long Bill Briggs and Minnesota’s Stew Maples for the Blue team.
The article details annual post season college bowls and all star games on Christmas and New Year’s in 1969 including North South Shrine in Miami with stars such as Bill Anderson Howard Twilley Rodger Bird and Tom Nobis plus lineups for Rose Cotton Sugar Orange Gator and Sun Bowls and coaches Ara Parseghian Glenn Dobbs Bill Elias and Jack Mollenkopf coordinating teams in Montgomery and nationwide television coverage by ABC CBS and other networks.
Los Angeles Rams announce Harland Svare will not have his contract renewed for 1966. President Daniel F. Reeves cites a need for a fresh approach after a long period of losses, with USC coach John McKay among rumored successors and Heisman winner Mike Garrett tied to potential package deals.
Kansas University’s Jayhawks erased a 38 34 halftime deficit to beat Ohio State 81 68 in Chicago. The game featured 13 ties before Kansas pulled ahead 46 46 and never trailed again.
The Iowa staff adds Frank Gilliam, a former Hawkeye and Rose Bowl veteran, as the first Negro fulltime coach in the Big Ten. The column praises breaking racial barriers, notes Gilliam’s athlete background, Canadian coaching in Vancouver, and urges support for Iowa’s hiring as a path to attracting top Black scholars and players.
A sports column comments on controversial storylines in pro wrestling and suggests the crowd would smell a fix if Cassius Clay were involved, noting the rumored manipulation of outcomes. The piece hints at backstage wrangling and public suspicion in the wrestling scene.
A quip notes that when something is for sale readers will locate it in the want ads. The remark hints at the practical use of classified sections in newspapers.
Michigan State coach Duffy Daugherty led a light two hour practice as the Spartans continued building toward the Rose Bowl against UCLA. He planned a Christmas Day session and a closed week of practice with no heavy contact before Pasadena.
UCLA Bruins focused on speed and agility in a one hour and five minute practice ahead of the Rose Bowl meeting with Michigan State. Coach Tommy Prothro highlighted quickness training with blocking tackling sled work and kickoff and punt coverage. Quarterback Gary Be ban and halfback Mel Farr stood out in scrimmages as Midwest reporters observed.
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