Pittsburgh at Minnesota

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  Imperial Valley press, California, October 23, 1933, page 6

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  1nlteu freSS StdI1 correspondence CHICAGO, Oct. %. From coast to coast the football stars twinkled again last week, with the following players dominating their sections: Bernard Burzio, Carnegie Tech guard-whose smashing defensive play was the greatest individual feat in Carnegie’s TO victory over Notre Dame. captain-who made both Yale S touchdowns in beating Brown, 14–⁠6. Gained all but three yards in the first 51-yard march and A out OF 81 yards in the second. Garry Levan, Princeton halfback lodged SIS yards for one touch down, plunged for another as Princeton triumphed over Columbia, 300. Punted beautifully and played brilliantly on defense. Midwest julius Alfonso, Minnesota half back = who started Minnesota IS touchdown drive against Pittsburgh with a 25-yard run and gained 81 yards in 16 attempts as his team beat Pitt, 7–⁠3 Jack Beynon. Illinois quarter back-who completed II out of II passes, II of them in succession. against Army, but, through no fault of his, the Cadets won, 60. Bob Jones, Indiana guard-whose magnificent defensive work and

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  Evening star, October 22, 1933, page 48

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  Army Conque1s Illinois Minnesota Beats Pitt “ and Surprises Stanford Is Near Defeat by Frisco TEZAR STADIUM, SAN FRAN. n CISCO, October 81 UP.-Meet- ing the stubborn defense of \ highly underrated foe. Stanford’s Indians flashed an aerial attack in the closing minutes today to break a deadlock and defeat University Of San Francisco’s Dons. 20 to Is. Stanford was on the short end Of a 1877 count as the game rolled into the last quarter. and badly outplayed by lighter and supposedly weaker eleven. The touchdown that tied the score saw Maentz, left half. stumble over the goal from the 6-yard line. after three previous downs had gained only a yard Four minutes were left to play when the Indians started on the winning drive.

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  The Indianapolis times, Indianapolis [Ind.], October 27, 1933, page 28 (results column)

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  CHICAGO, Oct. 27.-The Big Ten football race reaches the halfway mark tomorrow with Michigan, the favorite, and Iowa, the darkhorse, attempting to draw away from the field. Iowa’s conference leadership will be challenged by Minnesota in the days most important Big Ten battle before a crowd of $4,000 at Min neapoliS. Michigan will attempt to win its fourteenth straight game and hold its place among the leaders by chas- Using the young Chicago team before $4,000 at Stagg field. Purdue Still Has Hopes Purdue, still entertaining hopes despite it’s tie with Minnesota, will be after its second conference vic tory in homecoming battle against Wisconsin, twice beaten, at Madison before crowd of $4,000. Northwestern and Ohio State, each beaten once, will battle at CO. lumbus in a game that will relegate one or the other to the second division, barring tie. This is a homecoming game for Ohio State and is expected to draw some 10000. Two intersectional games in this territory will see Notre Dame and Pittsburgh, both beaten last week, meeting at South Bend, and Mich igan State engaging Syracuse at Lansing. Victories over Northwestern and Wisconsin have started champion ship talk in Iowa City, and $500 supporters, the biggest group to at tend an out-of-town game in years, will be solidly behind Iowa in its Minnesota invasion. Minnesota’s TT tie with Purdue, in which the Gophers outplayed the BoilermakerS, and 7–⁠3 victory over Pittsburgh, regarded as one of the strongest eastern teams, established Coach Bernie Bierman’s team as the favorite. Wolverines Too Good minnesota must stop two fine backs in Joe Laws and Dick Crayne but the Gophers stopped Purdue S star bal-carriers, Purvis, Hecker and Carter, and shackled Pitts Mike Sebastian, who had net loss OF four yards from scrimmage. Michigan’s stout defense should halt Chicago’s attack, and enable the Wolverines to coast to a con-

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Minnesota leads 9–⁠3 in 12 meetings, counting the 11 since this game.