Georgia at Yale

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  Evening star, Washington, D.C., October 9, 1927, page 1

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  Georgia Beats Yale by l4-l0; Harvard Bows, 1910, TO Purdue By the Associated Press )AMRRIDGE, Mass. October s A Texas youth named Ralph y WEIGH. playing his first game ~ of college foot ball, led Purdue University’s eleven to a 19-to-C victory over Harvard in the stadium, today in the Crimson’s first intersectional game since 1921. Young WEIGH played left half in place of Cotton” Wilcox, Purdue’s star back. who was kept out of the game by an injury. On the first play he crashed through the Harvard line for gain of IL yards and that was only the first advance he made. Whether in running, kicking; or pass ing, the Texas boy came through 1t was his day. almost to the exclusion of the other members of the Hoosier team. AS a team. the Purdue eleven was far superior to Harvard and outplayed the Crimson from the start with the exception of a brief period in the final quarter, when Harvard produced an attack that melted 60 yards. The adj vance was stopped. however, when Welch intercepted a forward pass and led his team on n march that ended with the final whistle on the 5-yard line. Harvard played n sluggish game. The line especially was weak and showed no Improvement over last week. The efforts of the backs were cut down by an excellent Purdue de- Tense that again and again pierced the Crimson line. Harvard made six first downs three of them in the final period. Purdue made 13 first downs. Purdue scored three touchdowns, one in each quarter, and came danger ously close to scoring a fourth in the last period

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  Brownsville herald. (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, Texas, October 9, 1927, page 1

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  GEORGIA. u. BEATS YALE YALE BOWL, New Haven, Conn, Oct. s.-P)-The University Of Georgia scored one of the most decisive upsets of the football season thus far by downing Yale today by IL to 10. A touchdown in the first period and a field goal in the second was the extent Of Ellis scoring, while the s~outherners hammered and pass ed their way to q touchdown in each Of the first quarters and held the lead doggedly throughout the Sec ond half.

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  New Britain herald, October 10, 1927, page 13 (results column)

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  N0TRE DAME AND NAVY ID BATTLE lndiananS to Meet an Unusually Strong Team Saturday New York, Oct. 10 R-Notre Dame is coming east this week to put on exhibition another of its famous Rockne-coached football elevens. and the Indianans, pitted against the Navy at Baltimore, have been accorded the star place on a schedule that brings together several top-notch aggregations, Notre Dame will unleash its drive for prominence against an unusually strong team. Navy, with victories over Davis Elkins and Drake, has showed enough to be chased as one of the strongest teams in the east Sloane at end and Lloyd in the back1eld have been tagged as all- American possibilities of their fine play. Rockne’s team has made a good start with victories over Coe College and Detroit, Another intersectional contest will bring together Princeton and Wash ington and Lee. Tn, southerners held the Tigers to 8. “ tie last year and this season hold victory over Duke University, conqueror of Bos- ton College. Yale, smarting under Its 14–⁠10 beating at the hands Of Georgia, meets another beaten team in Brown at New Haven. The bulldogs want and atone for the 70 defeat the iron men” handed them last year. Fuss” McLaughry’s eleven. a vic tim of Penn’s powerful machine. will have to trim Yale 10 stay in the big parade. The defeat at Philadel- phia was the first Brown had ra- ceived since the Harvard game Of 1925. Harvard, another of Saturdays upset victims, runs up against Holy Cross, the school that has inflicted two beatings to the Crimson in the last two years. Three in a row for Holy Cross would settle any finger ing doubt about football supremacy between the institutions. Football critics were agreed that Harvard would have to show marked improvement oye it’s form against Purdue to win. Horween’s team ap- peared slow on foot against the dashjng, versatile attack of the “ estern conference representatives Joe Crosby alone was able to make headway against the Purdue line, and the Harvard lateral passes were smeared with regularity. Army will go out against Davis Elkins trying to improve a defense that let Marquette score 12 points last week at West Point while the Cadets were pushing over thre. Lafayette, with one of the best records in the east, journeys to Morgantown for a game with West Virginia. The Maroon won it’s 1 9th successive game when it held Rutgers to one first down and ran up a 56–⁠0 score. Penn’s 14–⁠6 win over Brown makes Coach Lou Young’s team a. favorite over Penn State at Philadelphia. Penn State lost to Bucknell in one of the sur IIlSt Gd.LltS u lCit>L “ t-Ns N-C! t’ AA4’‘itA will play Colgate at New York, and at the Yankee Stadium New York [ Cniversity will line up against Ford ham. Pittsburgh. displaying d strong all-around game against West Nir- -inia, hikes back to Des MOines for l game with Drake. Other games include Dartmouth ,s Temple at Hanover, Rutgers Vs, George Washington at New Bruns- wick, Syracuse vs. Georgetown at Syracuse, Lehigh vs. SWarthmore at Washington and Jeffer- son vs. Carnegie Tech al Pittsburgh, Blackwell vs. Nillanova at Wilkes Barree, and Wesleyan vs. Bowdoin 1t Brunswick. There may be several upsets or his weeks schedule. Colgate, rated IS one of the best in the east last year. has lost it’s chance for a place lmong the eminent. The team was beaten last week by Virginia Poly, and it was the first setback for Col gate on it’s home field in 20 years.

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Georgia leads 6–⁠5 in 11 meetings, counting the six since this game.