After 90 years, Whitman College in Walla Walla, Wash. had ample reason to be proud of itself. Named for Marcus Whitman, the missionary pioneer of Oregon Territory days, it had a fine old campus of broad lawns and red brick buildings, a small but earnest student body (770), high scholastic standing and a sprinkling of noted alumni (among them: U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas). Whitman took all that for granted. What it was after last week was a football team that could win games in its own league.
Whitman's football temperature had...
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