Brown at Columbia

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  Evening star, Washington, D.C., September 30, 1956, page 1

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  Sophomore Backs Shine as Brown Defeats Lions, 20–⁠0 NEW YORK, Sept. 20 (P.- Brown, led by three sophomore backs, defeated Columbia, 300 today in the first football game of the newly organized Ivy League. The Brown sophomores, Dick Beland, Frank Finney anC George Gorgodian, operating behind a veteran line, were toe last for a Columbia team that boasted only Passer Claude Benham as a threat. Finney threw a 29-yard touchdown pass to Capt. Dick Bence for the first score in the second quarter. Beland and Gorgodian spanked a 53-yaro march at the start of the third period, with Joe Miluski carry ing over from the two. Another sophomore. Tom Macdonald, tossed a 14-yard pass to Augustus White fol the third Brown touchdown In the last period. Columbia oHMn ------------S : . 90 Brown scorinE-Bence (29, pass from Finney), Miluski q. plunge), White ia pass from Macdonald. Conversions Beland (2J.

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Brown leads 37–⁠29–⁠2 in 68 meetings, counting the 47 since this game.