Mississippi State at Ole Miss

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  Evening star, Washington, D.C., December 3, 1934, page 1 (results column)

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  Generals Win Title. TN The southwest ftlCe puIIco Baylor, 800, on Saturday to win the conference championship to which Arkansas Razorbacks were entitled in 1888, although they didn’t get it officially, because an ineligible player was in the Arkansas lineup in several games. Washington and Lees Gen erals, outpointing South Carolina, IA Z, last Thursday, assembled the South ern Conference throne occupied jointly by Duke and South Carolina last season. In the east Jock Sutherland’s Pitts burgh Panthers, beaten only by Min nesota and only opponent to give the Gophers a real battle, generally were regarded as the outstanding team in the section. They defeated all Eastern rivals handily and gave Nays fine eleven, otherwise undefeated, 316 trouncing. Last year Princeton, I’M defeated and united, finished with the best record among major Eastern schools. The principal disappointments of the season were Michigan and South ern California. indicated Big Ten champions in 1888, the Wolverines won only one game in eight-a 90 triumph over Georgia Techs Engineers, themselves walloped nine times In 10 games. Trojans Have Bad Year. TRIMMED by Washington, 14–⁠7, Hj on Saturday, Southern Cali fornia wound up its Pacific Coast Conference schedule with one victory, one tie and four defeats, the worst record any Trojan team has made since Howard Jones became head coach, but they’ll have chance to redeem themselves partly this Saturday against Notre Dame. Utah’s Indians, who dominated the Rocky Mountain group for six years, were beaten twice in conference COM petition this year, but had the satisfaction of running Utah States title bid with 147 victory Thanksgiving day. Nebraska not only surrendered its Big Six crown to Kansas State, but was drubbed soundly by Minnesota and Pittsburgh, further indication that the usually powerful Huskers had struck subnormal season. Perhaps the outstanding upset of the season was the TO victory Yale’s Bulldogs achieved over Princeton. Jimmy Kits, at Rice, and Lyn Wal dorf at Kansas State, achieved conference championships in their first seasons at the coaching helms of those schools. Francis Schmidt had moth Ing with which to reproach himself after his first Ohio State team, ranked second in power only to Minnesota, dropped only one game and that a 14–⁠13 decision to Illinois Ducky Pond and his chief assistant, Earle Greasy Neale, likewise did a remarkable coaching job at Yale, which defeated Penn, Brown, Dartmouth, Princeton and Harvard in a back breaking schedule that brought defeats by Columbia, Army and Georgia, all by one touchdown margins. Detroit Pulls Surprise. AIAVY’S victory over Army, IN achieved before crowd of 3d. 600 on a placement field goal by Slade Cutter, was the high light of last Saturdays program marked otherwise by Detroit’s surprising 60 upset of Washington State; Mississippi’s 7–⁠3 decision over Mississippi State; Georgia’s TO triumph over Georgia Tech; Dukes 800 rout of North Carolina State; Southern Meth odist’s 1870 trouncing of Texas Chris tan, and Holy Cross hard-earned TO decision over Boston College. This weeks slender schedule shows three Southwest Conference outfits in action-Texas Christian playing Santa Clara at Fort Worth, Texas A. and M. entertaining Michigan State at San Antonio, and Southern Methodist tackling Washington University at st. Louis. Tennessee’s joust with Louis lana State at Knoxville and the Notre Dame Southern California tussle at Los Angeles complete the program.

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Officially, Ole Miss leads 67–⁠46–⁠6; as played, 67–⁠47–⁠5 in the 119 games on file; the official count covers all 122 meetings, counting the 90 since this game.