Brown at Columbia

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  Evening star, November 23, 1952, page 63

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  NEW YORK, Nov. 22.-Jerry Hampton, Columbia’s little defensive center, pounced on two fumbles in the first period and the Lions turned both breaks into touchdowns today to bounce out of the Ivy League cellar with a 14–⁠0 football victory over Brown University. Mitch Price and John Valuska scored for Columbia with one-yard plunges after the rain soaked ball had twice squirted from the hands of Browns halfback, Girard Haverly, into the waiting arms of Hampton. The first of these bobbles oc- Cured in the first three minutes on the Brown 37-yard line and the second came five minutes later on the Brown 80. 49,, AL Ward, Columbia’s kicking specialist, made both conversions good The rest of the miserable, rainy afternoon was spent seeing how many Ivy League records Price, the crack passer from Mid vale. Utah. and Ward, his battery mate from Elizabeth, N. j., could

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Brown leads 37–⁠29–⁠2 in 68 meetings, counting the 50 since this game.