Yale at Chicago

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  Brownsville herald. (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, Texas, October 18, 1931, page 1

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  Yale Beats Chicago CHICAGO, Oct l7-P- The fond dreams OF Amos Alonzo Stagg, 69-year-old dean Of Americas foot ball coaches, TO conquer Yale on the gridiron crashed to earth today. Yale. playing for the first time on mid-western soil. as a tribute to Stage, a Yale alumnus. crushed Stages hopelessly purchased Uni versity of Chicago eleven. ~ to 0 before 5000 spectators.

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  Evening star, Washington, D.C., October 18, 1931, page 1 (results column)

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  AL CAPONE CONVICTED ON FIVE OF % COUNTS: FACES l7-YEAR TERM Sports Summary UpsetS and surprises galore were produced on. the far-dung gridirons of the Nation yesterday as the foot ball season swung in to full stride. Maryland’s feat in holding the strong Kentucky varsity squad to a 6–⁠6 tie was a source of graft fication to its followers, while American University bowed to High Point by a one-touchdown margin as its new field was died. icated. Gallaudet finished on the short end of an 1870 score against the aviators at Langley Field, Va. Probably the biggest upsets of the day we’re Wisconsin’s 2l-l4 defeat Of Purdue end Harvard’s 14-l3 verdict over Army, al though Fordham’s failure to do better than Go draw with Holy Cross and Iowa’s outplaying Indiana In a ScorelesS tie also come under this heading. as does the 1876 rout of Dartmouth by Lou Little’s Lions, which marked Columbia’s first victory over a Big Green eleven In AZ years. The $50 defeat Princeton took from Cornell was the worst the Tigers have suffered since back in the ’90S, while Tennessee’s margin of $50 over Alabama and Auburn’s 1870 triumph over Georgia Tech we’re surprising, this being the first time in IL years the Plainsmen have con- Quered the Golden Tornado. Yale’s unexpected 27–⁠0 rout of Chicago was one of three notable intersectional tits. In the 9TH ers Syracuse overwhelmed Flor ida. 1912. and Northwestern bested California U. Southern branch) 1870. Notre Dame. sub jected earlier to some criticism of weak attack, used exactly 81 players in romping over drake by a count of $50.

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Yale leads 1–⁠0–⁠1 in two meetings, counting the one since this game.