joyed a winning season in five years, Parseghian made the Fighting Irish into 1964’s most exciting team-and probably the season’s best, despite a 20-17 final-game upset by Southern Cal that dropped them to No. 3 behind Alabama and Arkansas in the national championship polls. The balloting for Coach of the Year was a runaway: Parseghian collected 60% of the 600 votes cast by the members of the Football Writers’ Association.
> U.C.L.A.: a 115-93 victory over Boston College in the finals of the Milwaukee Classic basketball tournament, first of traditional round of big-college holiday battles. Last year’s N.C.A.A. champion, U.C.L.A. ran its 1964 winning streak to five in a row, baffling the fast-breaking Eagles with a full-court “zone press”-despite 34 points by B.C. Guard John Austin, who was playing with an injured wrist.
> Northeastern University: a 4-1 victory over Brown University, in the finals of the Eastern College Athletic Conference Holiday Hockey tournament, at Madison Square Garden. Outplayed for two periods, the Huskies broke the game open with three goals in the final period (two of them by Forward Bill Seabury) to win the first major sports championship in their school’s history.
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