Mississippi State at Centenary (LA)

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  Evening star, October 31, 1937, page 27

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  CENTENARY IN 90 TIE Saved by May as 1t Is outplayed by Mississippi State. SHREVEPORT. La, Oct. 80 R.- After a lapse of six years, the Gen. tenary College Gentlemen and Mississippi State Maroons met on the football field today, and the contest, witnessed by 10000 persons, ended in 0-to-0 deadlock. Mississippi State roundly outplayed the Gents in the first two quarters and was kept from scoring largely by the splendid work of Jack May. Gen. tenary center, only recently promoted to the first team.

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  The Waterbury Democrat, November 1, 1937, page 13 (results column)

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  ALABAMA AGAIN SEEMS HEADED. FOR ROSE BOWL Kentucky Crushed 4l-O; as East, Midwest Teams Succufnb By LESLIE AVERY Limited Press Stan COrrespOndent) New York, Nov. 1--(UP>--The east sired collegiate football, and the middlewest was first to adopt 1t, but these two sectors couldn’t boast one major undefeated, united eleven between them today. Another weekend of smashing upsets re- duced the perfect record ranks from nine to four. Alabama from the south, Baylor from the southwest, and California and Santa Clara from the Pacific coast escaped eradication. Yale, Dartmouth and Holy Cross from the east, Detroit from the middlewest and Vanderbilt from the south were the casualties. Among the lesser teams that maintained clean slates were Lafay- cite, Colorado university and Mon- tana. With only ties against them were Yale, Dartmouth, Fordham, Pittsburgh, Villanova, Holy Gross, Temple, Duke and Nebraska. Alabama, marching steadily to- ward an invitation to the Rose Bowl on New Years day, crushed Kentucky, 4l-0, and took sole pos session of the southeastern confer ence lead. California scored its fourth conference victory, 27–⁠14, to remain foremost Pacific coast candi- date. Baylor beat T. c. U., Santa Clara Widowed Marquette, 38–⁠0. In 8 thrill-packed game at New Haven, Dartmouth and Yale played to a 9–⁠9 standof before a capacity crowd of 71,206. The casts final clean record, Holy Cross, was smudged GO by Temple. Detroit fell TO before Villanova, and Van- derbilt was upset 14–⁠0 by Georgia Tech. Notre Dame beat Minnesota 7–⁠6, Pennsylvania licked Navy 14–⁠7, Rice nosed out Auburn 13–⁠7, N. r. U. defeated Colgate 14–⁠7, and Dayton ended Western Re- serves 28-game winning streak, 18–⁠6. Other principal results: East-Pitt 25, Carnegie IA; La- fayette IA. F. and M. g; Harvard 34, Princeton 6; Cornell 14, Column bia o: Manhattan 20, Georgetown l2; Syracuse 19, Penn State 13; Army 20, V. M. I. q; North Carolina State 12, Boston college 2; Brown 19, Tufts o; Rutgers 34, Lehigh 0. Middlewest-Nebraska ‘, Indiana O; Northwestern 14, Wisconsin G.; Ohio State 39, Chicago o; Michigan ‘, Illinois 6; Purdue IS, Iowa 0: Michigan State 16, Kansas 0; Mis- souri 12, Iowa State O; Oklahoma 19, Kansas State 0. South-Tennessee 32, Georgia o; Tulane IA, Mississippi 2; Mississippi State 0. Centenary 0; Louisiana State 42, Loyola (New Orleans) g.; Maryland 13, Florida 2; Duke 4S, w and L., O; Clemson 32, Wake Forest O.; Davidson 13, Furman g.; Fordham IA, North Carolina o: Vir- ginia 6, William and Mary 0; V. P. I, 31, Hampden Sydney o. Southwest – Arkansas 26. Texas A. and M. IS: s. M. U. l3, Texas 2; Texas Tech IA, Oklahoma Aggies O. Rocky Mountain – Colorado 54, Colorado Mines O; Brigham Young 2l,, Western State o; Montana 19, Montana State o; Utah State q, Colorado State. Pacific coast-Stanford 0, Ore. gon State o; Washington 2l,; Idaho q; Washington State 0, Southern California O.; St. Mary’s 0, College of Pacific O.

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Centenary (LA) leads 1–⁠0–⁠2 in three meetings, counting the one since this game.