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'SURE-FIRE' SYSTEM WINS $150 PRIZE IN CONTEST

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Equipped with an "infallible" system, two College students have beaten the November 4 Viceroy Football Contest and won $150. R. Andrew Beyer '65 and James R. Barker '64, both of Thayer Hall, took first and second prizes respectively.

They submitted 230 entries picking the scores and winners of ten games. After deciding upon three "sure winners," the two students submitted 128 entries containing every possible combination of predictions for the remaining seven games. On the other 102 entries they varied their score predictions, which are used to break ties.

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