Illinois at Northwestern

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  New Britain herald, November 8, 1929, page 32 (results column)

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  TEAMS READY FOR GAMES TOMORROW Army and Harvard Expected to Furnish GridirOn Thrills New York, Nov s P}-Tomorrow the second Saturday in November finds a heavy schedule of climatic or scmi-climatic football battles with the invasion of the west by Army and Harvard offering promise Of the most spectacular frays of the day. The east has plenty of football fare in it’s own territory but for gen eral interest the palm must go to Armys duel with Bob Zuppke’s Illinois eleven and Harvards fray with Michigan. Despite a disappointing season, marked by a tie with Hayard and defeat by Yale, the Army appears ready to snatch it’s first major vic tory Of the year against the lllni who were beaten by Northwestern last week. Harvard, on paper, ap- pears much stronger than Michigan which has lost three Big Ten Con ference games in q row. At home the intersectional contest between Georgia and New York University will vie for interest with such purely domestic encounters as Penn te-Pcnnsylvania; Dart mouth Brown, GeorgetoWn-N Navy, ate-Columbia, Washington and Jefferson Pittsburgh, Boston Col ege-Fordham, Villanova- Bucknell, utgerS-Lafayette and among the little three, Wesleyan and Williams Yale meets Maryland with full expectations of averaging the 60 defeat by the southerners last year. Cornell should get no more than d workout against Western Reserve, | but West Virginia, especially in view Of it’s hard Election day battle with Fordham, appears doomed to defeat | by the heavy Detroit eleven of Gus Dorais. >nnbeaten over q span of 20 contests and tied only once in that ! time. Princeton hopes to achieve it’s sec ond victory of the season at the expense of Lchigh but the pcnnsyl- vanians are looking up after long period Of football depression and may spring q surprise. Lehigh held ; Penn to a l0–⁠7 score, neat per formance in any season. Cnbeaten teams clash in the Pitt 1 w. sand J. and Boston College Ford ham meetings but all of these “levens but Pitt have been tied. 1 Fordham might be q favorite over Boston College but for the fact that the Maroons will have had only | three days of rest since their ecoro- less tie with West Virginia Villa nova. another unbeaten team, may i not be in that class after the fray with the rugged Bucknen outfit. ! The Brown Dartmouth duel is i drawing more interest, perhaps. ! than it would had Al Marsters been | available. for Dartmouth quarter l back duty, Without Special Deliv- ] cry Ar the game assumes a more even aspect. Syracuse and Holy Cross have scheduled games with foes Of minor strength, the Orange meeting Mia sara and Holy Cross battling Boston 1 University Davis and Elkns, an other undcfeated aggregation. meets state rival in West Virginia Wes- leyan. Duquesne, another of the same class, takes on Catholic L.

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Illinois leads 59–⁠55–⁠5 in 119 meetings, counting the 96 since this game.