Sport: Broken Jinx

An old football maxim has it that no team is any better than its defense. In the Rose Bowl game last week some 100,000 fans and millions of televiewers got a good look at some of the best defensive play of the year. The rugged Southern California line, rated one of the best in the nation, stopped the pile-driving running of Wisconsin's Alan ("The Horse") Ameche five times within its 30-yd. line. Running into the same kind of opposition (a total of 48 yds. through the hard-tackling Wisconsin line), Southern Cal turned to another...

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