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P:While Notre Dame settled its position as the U.S.'s top football team, Maryland, No. 2, easily held the runner-up spot by beating South Carolina 24-6. Among the top teams still unbeaten: Baylor, which solidified its Southwestern Conference lead by defeating Texas Christian 25-7; Illinois, a top Big Ten entry, which beat Purdue 21-0; and West Virginia, now holder of the U.S.'s longest (twelve game) major-college undefeated streak, which edged Penn State 20-19. In one of the week's stunners, lowly Oregon, loser in four straight Pacific Coast Conference games, knocked haughty Southern California. Rose Bowl champion, from the unbeaten ranks 13-7. Another reversal came when Dartmouth, loser of seven straight, trounced undefeated Yale 32-0. P:At Camden, N.J., far outdoing California's golden purses, the Garden State Park track p~ut up a $269,395 stake for 20 of the U.S.'s best two-year-olds. Long-shot (14-1) winner of what thus became the richest horse race in history: the Cain Hoy Stable's Turn-To, Jockey Henry Moreno up. Owner Harry F. Guggenheim and Jockey Moreno figured in another long-shot victory this year: Dark Star in the Kentucky Derby. ' P:At New York's Jamaica race track, the year's champion handicap horse, Greentree Stable's Tom Fool, was retired to stud with a farewell parade around the track after,' the running of the $80,400 Empire City Gold Cup (won by the Charfran Stable's Crafty Admiral). Out of the money only once in 30 starts and unbeaten in this, his four-year-old season, Tom Fool retires with total winnings of $570,165, sixth highest in history (after Citation, Stymie, Armed, Native Dancer and Assault).

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