Iowa's Drake University football team (six wins, two losses, one tie this year) seldom makes headlines outside its own Missouri Valley Conference. But last year, in Sophomore Halfback Johnny Bright, Drake had the leading ground-gainer in U.S. football: 1,950 yards in rushes and completed passes. Last week Drake fans by the hundreds drove up to Ames to see what broad-hipped Johnny Bright would do against Iowa State and saw one of the great individual performances of the year.
Twisting, churning and pounding through Iowa State's line and around the ends, big (6 ft., 200 Ibs.) Halfback Bright ran for four touchdowns, one...
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