Sport: Scoreboard, Dec. 28, 1953

¶ In San Francisco, ex-Heavyweight Champion Ezzard Charles, 32, bidding for a comeback chance against Rocky Marciano next summer, scored an impressive tenth-round knockout of younger (by seven years) and heavier (by eleven pounds) Coley Wallace, the fighter who doubles for ,the hero in the movie The Joe Louis Story.

¶In Washington, the University of Maryland received the Rev. J. Hugh O'Donnell Memorial Trophy for the No. 1team in the U.S. from a representative of the No. 2 team. Warned Notre Dame Backfield Coach Bill Earley: "Next year we're going to come right back...

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