Friday, Nov. 02, 1962
Who Won
» Twice-beaten Ohio State, smarting from the loss of its early-season No. 1 ranking: a hard-fought, 14-7 victory over previously undefeated Wisconsin. Aided by a 15-yd. slugging penalty, Ohio State marched 57 yds. in eight plays for the winning fourth-quarter touchdown. Cornell downed Princeton, 35-34, and Navy beat Pitt, 32-9, in major upsets, but most top teams had little trouble: Dartmouth trounced Harvard, 24-6; Southern California beat Illinois, 28-16; Alabama routed Tulsa, 35-6; Michigan State walloped Indiana, 26-8; Auburn edged Clemson, 17-14.
» Kevin Berry, 17-year-old Aussie swimming star: the 110-yd. and 220-yd. butterfly at the Melbourne trials for the British Empire Games, both in world record time. All told, Berry got credit for three new world records: his 2-min. 9.7-sec. clocking in the 220-yd. butterfly also bettered the mark for 200 meters. Another record breaker: 25-year-old Dawn Fraser, dean of Aussie women swimmers, who became the first woman to swim the 110-yd. freestyle in less than 1 min. Her time --59.9 sec.--also smashed the world record for 100 meters.
» Roger Penske, up-and-coming U.S. auto racer from Gladwyne, Pa.: the $20,000 Pacific Grand Prix at Laguna Seca, Calif. Driving a homemade car that he put together from a beat-up Cooper and a new Climax engine, Penske took the championship when Dan Gurney's Lotus Mark 19 went bad. Penske's purse: $5,000.
» The New York Yankees' Frank Crosetti: his 31st World Series melon, a winner's share of $9,882, giving him a record total of $141,949 in Series money as player and coach.
» Beau Purple, Jack Dreyfus' temperamental, long-striding sprinter, who insists on taking the lead at the start of a race: the $114,800 Man O' War Stakes on the turf at New York's Belmont Park--a contest that was billed as a match race between Carry Back, winner of more than $1,000,000 in three years, and Kelso, the Horse of the Year in 1960 and 1961. Almost unnoticed by betters, who let him go off at 20-1, Beau Purple fought off Kelso's challenge to win by two lengths. Carry Back finished a badly beaten fifth. Beau Purple's time for the 1 1/2-mi. race--2 min. 28 3/5 sec.--broke the track record, and his winner's purse of $74,620 ran his 1962 earnings to $342,205.
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