All the University of Illinois had to do last week to cinch an invitation to the Rose Bowl was to defeat Wisconsin. Underdog Wisconsin, beaten in the Rose Bowl last year (and ineligible as a repeater to return this season), had nothing to gain but prestige. It turned out to be quite an incentive.
Illinois, undefeated and ranked No. 3 in the U.S. (after Notre Dame and Maryland), counted heavily on a pair of the ablest touchdown twins since Army's famed Doc Blanchard and Glenn Davis. They were Negro Sophomores J. C. ("Mr. Outside") Caroline, the nation's leading ground-gainer, who had already...
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