West Virginia at Rutgers

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  The Birmingham age-herald, Alabama, November 7, 1923, page 13

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  WEST VIRGINIA IS RUTGERS VICTOR Neither Team Had Been Beaten This Year On Gridiron NEW YORK, Nov. 6.-The unde- feated West Virginia football team appearing before a New York crowd for the second time in less than two weeks, tromped all over the high as pirations of the Rutgers team Tues day afternoon. The score was 27 to 2 and the Rutgers players were sent home with mud smeared all over their record, which hitherto had been maintained without smirch This tragedy happened to Rutgers on the 54th anniversary of that soggy autumn day when Rutgers and Princeton played Americas first in- tercollegiate game of football on the Rutgers field at New Brunswick, N. J. West Virginia has not been defeat ed and will have to be admitted to the reckoning when the strongest teams are Identified at. the end of the season, if the same style of aggres- sion is maintained to the finish The Hill Billies strolled through the Rut- gers line for a touchdown in each quarter of the election day entertain ment. Rutgers would not have SCOT ed at all but for the accident of a tumble by Nardacci, one of the West Virginia backs, near his own goal. Although the city was away from it’s desks on a holiday, the game drew only 10000 to the Polo Grounds. Rain kept the customers away and also in- terfered with fast football and clean handling of the ball. In the other game of the day here, New York university won from Ford ham, 20 to O.

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West Virginia leads 33–⁠4–⁠2 in 39 meetings, counting the 32 since this game.