Rutgers at Lafayette

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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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Rutgers leads 35–⁠16–⁠1 in 52 meetings, counting the 33 since this game.