Mississippi College at Alabama

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  The Birmingham age-herald, Alabama, October 18, 1920, page 8 (results column)

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  Techs Defeat IOf Vanderbilt Features Play Atlanta. October 17.-Georgia Tech crushing defeat of Vanderbilt Saturday in one of the first games or the season ill which two aces of the southern gridiron faced each other proved the outstanding feature of the weeks play which generally found the more conspic- uous elevens engaged against weaker opponents. The A to O’victory or the Tech Yellow Jackets is said here to be the worst de- feat suffered by the Commodores, ex- cept Techs s to 0 victory of 1917. Van derbilt’s poor tackling and costly fum- bes were largely responsible for Satur- days result, according to reports here. The Tech eleven, while playing a won derful game, was hampered by off-side penalties. about the only weakness Il has shown in its first four games. TECH SHOWS POWER Despite the loss of some 16 yards on penalties. the Tech machine, built up by Coach Heisman and now guided by w. V. Alexander, a Tech star of a few and defense against Vanderbilt that sur passed even the most ardent hopes of it’s supporters. Not all the other elevens of the larger institutions found the going as easy as might have been expected, however for the Furman team, ontweighed five to ten pounds to the man, held Georgia Uni versity to a bare to 0 victory. and Birming turned on Uniyer- sity of Mississippi and defeated -”Ole Miss 2 to 6. Alabama’s two big elevens and the great team that Coach Moran has built up at Centre College continued their vic torious marches, as did the powerful Virginia Military Institute team. Auburn, playing the hard-fighting Clemson aggre- gation Friday, won. 21 to O. and the Uni- versity of Alabama or Saturday put it’s weight and speed into action againsl Mississippi College for 57 to 0 victory. Centre swept Transylvania aside for 8 55 to score, and the Citadel failed to stop the Virginia cadets, who won 8 to 0. SOUTH HUMBLED Southern teams that went into actior against northern elevens failed to adS much to the credit of the Dixie game Princeton penetrated the usually stout defensive of Washington and Lee for a }4 to -ictory. Penn State humbled North Carolina State, fl to Q. and vir’ ginia Polytechnic Institute went down i9 to 6, before Rutgers. The University of Virginia defeated Johns Hopkins, Ii to o. The University of Alabama. Centre College and Georgia Tech are the onl, three big teams that have kept then own goals invioalte this season, and a comparison shows that Centre has pileC up to 24l to 0 in three games, Alabania 2l0 to in four contests and Tech a09 tt 0 in four, The latter is the only one ol the three that has so far faced another enc of the big southern elevens.

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Alabama leads 7–⁠0 in seven meetings, counting the two since this game.