Sport: Football's Big Six

In a football season already tainted by the West Point cribbing affair and threatened by investigations from all sides (see above), there were still a couple of pleasant surprises. With emphasis on the single-wing attack, and less of the hipper-dipper intricacies of the T formation, football was a lot easier to watch. The best teams were also easier to see. With the decline of Army and Notre Dame, football's center of gravity had shifted and spread; the nation's top teams are now scattered from Tennessee to California, with regional powerhouses in the Midwest...

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