Tennessee at Kentucky

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  The Bismarck tribune, North Dakota, November 27, 1931, page 8 (results column)

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  TULANE IS BOOSTED into CHAMPIONSHIP POSITION IN south Pittsburgh Shows Amazing Power to Smother Ne. braska, 40 to o CORNELL DEFEATS PENN Unemployment Relief Funds in Seven States Will Bene- fit BY Games The Thanksgiving day football pro. gram served to boost Tulane into in disputed possession of the Southern Conference lead; give the Utah In dians a chance to win their fourth straight Rocky Mountain Conference title; and establish Pittsburgh as possibly the strongest of eastern teams. Tulane, although idle until Saturday. automatically gained sole pos session Of the Southern Conference lead when Tennessee’s unbeaten eleven found the Kentucky Wildcats entirely too wild and had to be salts fled with a 6–⁠6 tie. Tulane has Louis lana state to beat in its final conference game tomorrow. Utah buried the Utah Aggies, $40 Pittsburgh, beaten only by Notre Dame, showed amazing power and a versatile attack in crushing Nebraska, 400. Nebraska had expected to make it close but had no chance to stop the Panthers. Pitt finished its season unbeaten in the east. As a general rule there were few surprises in other holiday results. Colgate. Holy Cross and New York university, favorites all, had to come from behind to win. Colgate turned back Brown, 1877; N. Y. U. nosed out Carnegie Tech, 7–⁠6, and Holy Cross just made the grade against Boston college, also by a 7–⁠6 count. Cornell, beaten only by Dartmouth. wound up highly successful season by whip ping Pennsylvania, TO. Maryland had little trouble with Johns Hop kins and won, 35-l4. North Dakota and George Washington fought to a call tie. Three encore numbers to the west ern conference football program will be played Saturday, and the unemployment relief funds in seven states will benefit by the athletes extra labor. Charity will receive all the receipts after actual expenses have been paid, but the athletes will be thinking more about the Big Ten champion ship, than of the gate and relief funds. The battle between Purdue and Northwestern, the keystone of the title situation, has grabbed most Of the interest, but the meetings of Wisconsin and Michigan at Ann Ar Dor, and Ohio State and Minnesota at Minneapolis, are expected to at tract patronage in sufficient guam tity to give charity another big boost. Michigan and Ohio State welcome the opportunity to make one more stab at the championship, but to Northwestern, the situation is not an entirely happy one. The Wild cats have fought their way through eight games without defeat. Five of their triumphs were over Big Ten opponents, and under ordinary circumstances, Northwestern would be the undisputed holder of the title. Re- Taxation of one of the conference S Strictest rules-limiting its members to eight games each season-has left the Wildcats with their biggest Job. Should the Boilermakers trim Northwestern on Soldier Field tomorrow, Michigan, by defeating Wis consin, and Ohio by overcoming Min nesota, along with Purdue, would earn a share Of the title. Michigan is favored to whip the Badgers, and Ohio rates just the faintest edge over the GopherS, while the Purdue. Northwestern game appears to be q tossup. Charity was enriched about $13.00t yesterday when Indiana Outlastec Chicago, Iowa and Illinois to wiz

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Officially, Tennessee leads 85–⁠26–⁠9; as played, 84–⁠25–⁠9 in the 118 games on file; the official count covers all 121 meetings, counting the 94 since this game.