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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 1369047, member: 289"] [B] [/B][I]The SI Football Preview[/I] I have now remembered that I have another source for the 1957 college football season besides Street and Smiths and the NCAA Guide: I also have Sports Illustrated’s college football preview for that year, (their second ever, having begun the annual tradition in 1956). One of the articles is called “Saturday’s Moods” and has pictures from the 1956 season, each with a caption beginning with a word in a large, bold font. [B]TENSION[/B] was the caption for the picture of Abe Martin addressing his TCU team before the Cotton Bowl, which was the subject of a very detailed article SI did a while back and placed on it’s website in a wonderful interactive format: [URL]http://www.si.com/longform/cotton-bowl/[/URL] [B]ACTION [/B]was a shot from the Syracuse Holy Cross game. I looked for a way to find it on SI.com but all they have in their vault is the text of the captions. I did find the shot here: [MEDIA=getty]452978422[/MEDIA] The recognizable numbers are that of #58, center Bill Brown, #18, halfback Ernie Jackson and #36 fullback Ed Coffin. That large helmet stripe on the player falling down in front of Jackson belongs to Jim Brown. It’s one of the best football action shots I’ve ever seen. This famous photo is from the same game: [URL]http://cdn2.sbnation.com/fan_shot_images/254717/AthyvhZCIAAxTlL.jpg[/URL] The orange is much brighter in the magazine shots than it looks in these online shots. Nobody wondered why we shouted “Go Orange!” back then. The article on Syracuse can be found here: [URL]http://www.si.com/vault/1957/09/23/623324/the-independents[/URL] It’s about 80% of the way to the bottom on the scroll. Not in the SI vault is a picture of Dick Lasse, with a fuller head of blonde hair than in the Post Standard supplement mentioned in my previous article. To summarize: Syracuse lost Jim Brown, Jim Ridlon and Bill Brown “but they might yet come up with an a top eastern contender…based on the copious supply of strongmen Coach Ben Schwartzwalder has in his starting line….The quarterbacking corps is neat but not gaudy Of his halfbacks, Schwartzwadler speaks with candor and a touch of melancholy: “We straightened out that situation in spring practice. It looks like Ernie Jackson and Dean Danigelis will take over for Brown and Ridlon: how they’ll be, we don’t know.” Most likely they’ll be a step slower and not nearly as destructive.” [/QUOTE]

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