UConn at Brown

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  The Waterbury Democrat, Connecticut, September 28, 1936, page 12

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  CONNECTICUT ii PROVIDES SHOCK TO GRID WORLD Brown Shut Ont 27-O By Christian Football Ma- 1 chine at Providence Connecticut State Colleges foot ball team 1oomed today as the sur prise threat for the small college Championship of the state. Long in the doldrums, the state outfit swept to a resounding 27–⁠0 triumph over the Brown Bears at Providence Saturday before 4,00O nstonished spectators. With Wesleyan apparently below par in being held to scoreleSs tie by the Coast Guard at New London, the Storrs team was given an ex- cellent chance of beating the Mid- dwletown team when they meet this week. Last year Wesleyan beat the Coast Guard 27–⁠0, and edged State 6-O. The Storrs eleven beat the Coast Guard TO in 1885. We’ll Balanced Coach J. D. Christian has built up at State, with assistance of George Van Bibber, formerly of Purdue, a hard driving line and fast, shifty backf1eld Able replace ments were plentiful. Ccach Dan Jesse of Trinity, which meets State Oct. 24, sat in the stands at Providence and was tm- Y-essed with the power and drive of the reborn Staters. Last year the score was Trinity 26, State 13. Storrs plays the Coast Guard Oct. 31. state boasts three crack ends, Sal- ovits, O’Grady and lance, all ot whom played Saturday. Hembolt, Lenich, Shadow and Fox were 1m- pressive in the line. Paul Johnson and Bill Holcomb at quarter, Lewis, Greco and Scar chuck at half, and Kosikowsky and Posner at full, gave promise of pro- viding plenty of trouble for Trim ity. Wesleyan and the Cadets.

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  Evening star, September 27, 1936, page 22 (results column)

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  AGED by Minnesota’s unchecked – Gophers and Dukes Southern Conference champions, the = Nations college foot ball for mally opened the 1886 campaign yes terday with an unprecedented array of big-time games and the usual scat tering series of surprise finishes. Minnesota. undefeated through its last three full seasons and rated by many experts the country’s greatest team last season, turned back WASH ingtcn’s formidable Huskies, Pacific Coast Conference favorites. IA to Z. in a sensational battle fought at Seattle before a capacity crowd Of $1,000. A tumble by Byron Haines, Washington’s great back. gave Minnesofa its chance in the fourth quarter, and the Gophers put over the winning touchdown on a pass from Uram to King. Meanwhile, at Durham, Duke out played Colgate’s Red Raiders by wide margin. although Eric Tipton’s touchdown plunge at the end Of 66-yard drive in the third period represented the only score Of the game. A crowd Of $4,000 saw this victory for the South in intersectional warfare. Brown, Lafayette Marks. IRON the standpoint of form” I” the chief upset victims of the opening day were Brown and Lafaycite in the East and Mississippi in the South. but at least half dozen other favorites were hard pressed to win. Brown and Lafayette supposedly were on the way up the foot ball lad der. thanks to good sophomore ma. terial, but the former was trounced by Connecticut State. 27–⁠0. and La fayette was beaten by Muhlenberg, 1876. Tulane. operating under new coach, Lowell CRed Dawson, upset favored Mississippi array, 7–⁠6. Much of the days excitement was concentrated in the Far West, where Stanfords Rose Bowl champions, wrecked by graduation Of key stars. bowed to Santa Clara, l3–⁠0, and Southern California showed return to former power in crushing Oregon State, 38–⁠7. In the South, Clemson, North Carolima and Virginia Military checked in with Southern Conference victories. Clemson topped Virginia Poly’s vet eran team, 300; North Carolina just lasted to beat Wake Forest, 14–⁠7, and Virginia Military outpointed South Carolina. PAT. Georgia had a hard fight before subduing Mercer, 1876, and Tennessee, with Bob Neyland back at the helm, found Chattanooga tough, 1870. Purdue Shows Class. IN THE Midwest, Purdue turned in = the days stand-out performance in routing Ohio University, 47–⁠0, as Cecil Isbell scored four touchdowns. A 60-yard touchdown dash by SIM

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Brown leads 6–⁠1 in seven meetings, counting the six since this game.