Loyola (Baltimore) at Navy

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  New Britain herald, November 22, 1926, page 8

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  MAJOR TEAMS PLAY FINAL GRID GAMES Thanksgiving Day Will See End of College Football Season i New York. Nov. 22 R-Failure surprise, and disaster thus far dom. mating figures in the eastern foot. ball campaign of 1926. have g choice field to work in on Thanks. giving day and Saturday. the final games of the season. In a few short weeks Dartmouth fell from a national champion in 1925. to defeat in four major con- tests, the Big Three, most ancient of American college sport alliances was wrecked through disagreement and numerous upsets occurred. A direct challenge faces the tinxes when an undefeated leader among the candidates for eastern supremacy, Brown university. meets Colgate on the holiday. Defeat for i the Bear would prove the most stir ring of the seasons upsets. Pennsylvania, with a record that shows defeat only to an intersec- i ‘tional rival. bumps against Cor nell eleven that has played in-and- out football this season. Pitts | burgh’s battling crew has little at i stake against Penn State. but Syra- cuse, brilliant and mediocre in turn, can end the season In glory against . Columbia. West Virginia and Washington and Jefferson stage an- , other of their teeming battles in the 1 only other outstanding match Of the 1 holiday. | But on Saturday. Notre Dame. recognized as the strongest claim ant for the national title carries it’s perfection into battle against Car neFie Tech. an eleven that startled cities by swamping West Virginia Saturday, 900, And Army and Navy stage their pageant Of color and ceremony in Chicago. Boston College stacks a record Of no de- fnats against Holy Cross. whipped for the first time Saturday by lowly Boston University. by the margin Of a lone field goal. Georgetown takes the eleven that swamped Fordham 5I-U, west 10 La’hic l’etlOll. |. The weekend witnessed the pass ing of many major elevens for the season. Lafayette closed a sterling campaign that saw neither defeat nor tie with q crushing victory over r.chieh 35–⁠0. Mike” Wilson. the hi touchdown maker for Easton.- Pa. closed his sopho’ >ore football career with three touchdowns run ming his total for the season to 120 while the eleven plowed far out In front of all rivals with a team to- tai of 3S0. Yale took the final game of the last Big Three series from Harvard 12 to ‘ as balm for the bruises Brown. Army, Maryl nd and Prince ton left on the Bulldogs hide. Har- yard today had no medicine for disastrous season of five defeats. Both Army and Navy had trouble b ting final preparatory foes be- fore the service classic, the Cadets taking Urs.nus into camp 21 to 1o. W ile the Middes were downing Loyola of Baltimore. 35 to 13. Syracuse had trouble defeating Nj agara, 12 10 z.

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Navy leads 3–⁠0 in three meetings, counting the two since this game.