Sport: Scoreboard, Nov. 18, 1957

¶ "Team morale is shot," said Iowa Coach Forest Evashevski after TIME and others had the temerity to suggest that settling for a 21-21 tie with Michigan might have been cricket but wasn't football. "I don't know whether we can get the kids up off the floor." But this time Evy refused to quit. He posted the offending articles on the locker-room bulletin board. His kids got the message and scored the most points Iowa had ever made against Minnesota. They beat the Gophers, 44-20.

¶It would probably be a good thing for the team to lose, said University of Oklahoma...

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