Navy at Ohio State

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  The Bismarck tribune, November 9, 1931, page 6 (results column)

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  H0OSIERS AND iowa ONLY OBSTACLES IN PATH OF WILDCATS Only Startling Upset Can Deprive Evanston Team of Big Ten Supremacy GOPHERS GIVE THEM SCARE lntersectional Tits Give Way to Sectional Clashes This Weekend Chicago, Nov. 9.-(P)-Unless the biggest upset of the western confer ence football season has not yet been recorded, Northwestern’s Wildcats can spend the rest Of the campaign working on the business of becoming All-American selections. Northwestern crushed Minnesota Saturday, 80 to IA, to remove the last high ranking threat from it’s path, and have only to take care of In diana and Iowa on the next two Saturdays. Iowa and Indiana have a combined record of one victory and three defeats, along with mutual ly owned tie, and nothing they have done would lead to suspicion that either might upset the untamed Wildcats. Beside the Indiana game Saturday, six other Big Ten elevenS will meet in conference COM petition. Ohio State and Wisconsin, participants in a four-way tie for third place in the ranking, will tangle at Madison; Iowa will meet Purdue at Lafayette, and Chicago and Hi nois will stage their renewal at Champaign. Michigan, holder of second place, entertains an old, and often very troublesome foe in Mich igan State college, while Minnesota will take q workout on Cornell Oowa) college at Minneapolis. Notre Dame will make its second excursion into the east to meet Navy at Baltimore. Minnesota was even tougher than advertised against Northwestern Saturday, and for 30 minutes it looked as though a stunning upset was in the making. The Gophers led by IA to Z at the half, but after Pug Rent ner ran back kickoff for IS yards and a touchdown, following it up with an 80 yard return of punt for another score, it was Wildcat parade. Michigan gained temporary pos session of second place by mauling Indiana, % to 0. Wisconsin defeated Illinois, to 6. Ohio State found Navy easy and scored 20 to 0 victory. Purdue spot ted Centenary of Louisiana, six points, then cut loose for seven touchdowns and a 49 to triumph. Chicago came within three min utes of winning its first victory since the first day of the season, but wound up in a 1913 tie with Arkansas. Iowa lost its fifth decision of the season, Z to o, to Nebraska. For the first time this season, in tersectional football competition will play second fiddle this week to strict ly sectional combat with the south and east as the principal storm CEN tiers. The south, In fact, becomes the football capital of the nation, at least for a day, with the crucial encounters between Georgia and Tulane or the one hand, and Tennessee anc Vanderbilt on the other. Georgia Tulane and Tennessee all are un. beaten and united while Vanderbilt after accepting beatings from Tulane and Georgia, has come along fast II recent weeks. These two games not only will have a vital bearing on thu southern conference race but alse will affect the mythical nationa standings in which the three un’ beaten southern outfits rank close tt the top. In the east, in spite Of such In. tersectional contests as those involv. ing Notre Dame and Navy. Georgis Tech and Penn, and Washington & Lee and Princeton, far greater in terest will center on a half dozer sectional struggles. OF the major un beaten eastern teams, Cornell, Har ward, Syracuse, Fordham, Temple and Bucknell all face possible trouble The Big Ten and Pacific coast con ference titles virtually have beer clinched by Northwestern and South ern California and apparently nothing can stop Utah from annexing tn Rocky Mountain crown again. 1 wide open fight between Southern Methodist and Texas Christian feat ures the southwest conference an, Nebraska, Iowa State and poSsibl, Kansas State all have chance TO the Big Six championship.

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Ohio State leads 5–⁠0 in five meetings, counting the three since this game.