Stanford at Ohio State

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  Evening star, Washington, D.C., October 7, 1956, page 1

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  Ohio Stote ops Stanford On Late Breaks, 32–⁠20 COLUMBUS, Ohio, Oct. 6 up. Ohio State turned loose two terrific halfbacks today to defeat Stanford 1920 in an intersectional football contest, but the robust Bucks needed two Ilast-period breaks to conquer the air-minded Indians. The biggest crowd in stadium history = 82,881 - watched the thrilling struggle in which John IBrodie, Stanford’s fine quarter back, put on an outstanding aerial attack. The tall senior completed Fl of IS attempts for 256 yards and two touchdowns, but his feats were not enough to halt the land assault of the Bucks. Ohio State went 66 yards in 2 plays, 48 IN II, SIS in 10, 40 in and 25 in for its touchdowns, the last two coming after a recovered tumble and an intercepted pass to break a 1920 third quarter deadlock Stanford, 60 victor over the Bucks a year ago, relied mostly on Brodie’s Workmanship as they scared 80 yards in IL plays, 80 lin is and So in 8 in their scoring drives. Ohio’s touchdowns went to Jimmy Roseboro, senior right Ihalfback who scored three times twice on 7-yard runs, and once on an 1S-yard pass from sophomore Don Clark who counted the other six-pointers on runs OF 81 and 10 yards. ! Ohio took to the airways only twice and completed one, the rk-Roseboro scoring play which wound up the game. Fullback Lou Valli scored

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Stanford leads 3–⁠2 in five meetings, counting the three since this game.