Bates at Yale

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  The Bismarck tribune. (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, North Dakota, October 3, 1932, page 1

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  GEORGIA, MARYLAND, NAVY AND TEXAS ARE VICTIMS OF UPSETS Mighty Yale Is Held to Score less Tie Saturday BY Little Bates OREGON SINKS SANTA CLARA William and Mary’s 6 to o Conquest of Middies Biggest Surprise Footballs lambs donned wolves at tire and dealt the “dopesheets” a smashing blow all along the line Saturday. The defeat of Georgia and Mary land in the south; of Navy in the east, and Texas in the southwest was enough to shock the hardest of grid iron observers without Yale suffering the ignominy of tie with little Bates. Georgia, long one of the major powers in the southern conference, was forced to surrender TO a plucky outfit from Virginia Poly. 7–⁠6. while Maryland, another of the confer

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  Evening star, District of Columbia, October 3, 1932, page 32

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  Yale did not spend very enjoyable afternoon on the occe SIGN of its open ing game, Bates College walking of the fed at the end with 0-to-0 lie. For Yale to be held 0 to 0 by one OF the small New England colleges IS I’M usual. to say the least. and indicates either that Yale foot ball this Fall may not oe anything over which TO boast

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  The Waterbury Democrat, Connecticut, October 3, 1932, page 13 (results column)

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  In addition, Bucknell plays Ford ham, and New York University will attempt to repel Rutgers. < Columbia, with its fast, powerful machine, is favored to trim the Princetonians, who showed no great brilliance Saturday in beating Amherst, 22–⁠0. Chicago will be .fav- ored to humble Yale because of the latter’s questionable showing against Bates, with a 0–⁠0 tie. ‘, Indians And Irish Notre Dame starts its season against Haskell, and Nebraska tackles Iowa State. Purdue meets B strong opponent in Minnesota; Northwestern and Michigan tangle in an interesting encounter, and Wisconsin plays Iowa. In the South, Georgia journeys to New Orleans to meet Tulane. re- putedly one of the strongest teams in Dixie. Tennessee clashes with North Carolina, and Georgia Tech meets Kentucky. On the Pacific Coast, the three big colleges face stern opposition. Stanford meets Santa Clara, which after beating California the week before. Southern California will have its hands full against this same Oregon aggregation. and Cal- ifornia opposes St Mary’s. Yale, which had been regarded as potentially the strongest team in the east, was held to scoreless tie by Bates in the biggest upset of the weekend. William and Mary triumphed over Navy 60. Two sur prises were recorded in the mid- west when Indiana was held to a 7–⁠6 victory by Ohio University, and Wisconsin barely beat Marquette, 7–⁠2. Unexpected In the south, reversals were registered when South Carolina nosed out Villanova, 7–⁠6, and Georgia succumbed to Virginia Polytechnic University, 7–⁠6. In the southwest, Texas Teachers turned back Southern Methodist 7–⁠6, and Centenary beat Texas, 13–⁠6. Oregon provided the Pacific Coast with an rpset by beating Santa Clara, 70. Other football powers had diffi- culties. Cornell defeated Niagara, TO; Army beat Furmah. 13–⁠0, and Lafayette won over Muhlenberg, 60,

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Yale leads 6–⁠0–⁠1 in seven meetings, counting the one since this game.