UCLA All-American football star Bob Davenport and wife (foreground) have been active in Campus Crusade work.
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one in the nation) has a majority of believers among the first-stringers. Just last fall Bob Davenport, UCLA All-American, was instrumental in bringing Primo Villanueva, another All-American footballer at UCLA, in to a vital relationship with Christ. Soon Primo helped his wife to make a definite decision. Later, they invited two of their college friends to a Cru sade meeting, and they made their decisions for Christ. The following week this couple brought two of their friends, and the young man made his decision for Christ. Chain-reaction ex periences of this kind are frequent on
sade for Christ. The group was found ed at UCLA in 1951 by Bill Bright, a young Southern California business man. Today Campus Crusade reaches across the nation on 50 campuses. Probably the prize convert from the early days of the movement was All- American football player Donn Moo- maw of UCLA. He later worked with the Billy Graham team and is now a theological student at Princeton. After Moomaw made his stand for Christ there seemed to be a definite trend toward outstanding athletes ac cepting Christ as Saviour. The cur rent UCLA football team (number
the Christian faith. Today, most of these institutions deny or ignore those great truths for which they were es tablished. It is estimated that 95% of the 2 Y 2 million college students in America are not being reached with the claims of Christ. But those churches and organiza tions that have worked among col lege students uniformly report a sin cere spiritual hunger. One of the more promising groups now working on secular campuses is Campus Cru
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