Washington and Lee at Virginia

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  The Washington times, October 3, 1938, page 21 (results column)

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  HEADLINE TILTS STUD GRID SLATE. THIS WEEKEND college football throughout the Nation continues its menu of ira ditional and intersectional battles with the ndea of toppling the country’s best from the ranks of the undefeated. Conference games break out in full blast the coming week, but must share interest with the likes Of the Southern California Ohio State battle at Columbus; the Georgia Tech-Notre Dame affair at Atlanti; and the Colgate-Duke f1aSco at Buffalo, N. Y. Friday night, too lists two stellar inter. sectional attractions with Texas Christian at Temple and Southern Methodist playing Marquette at Chicago. No less than three local elevenS indulge in interSectional battles with Cathoic U. playing Detroit at Detroit and George Washington host here to Butler University Of Indianapolis on Fri. day evening. On Saturday, Mary. land travels to Syracuse for a game in Archibald Stadium. Headlining the East’S football parade Saturday is the Princeton. Dartmouth, the Penn-Yale and the Harvard Cornell Ivy League encounters. Pitt tackles DuqueSne in the Pitt Stadium, with the dis appointed baseball fandom of the Smoky City, expected to turn out $4,000 strong for this home grown attraction. Navy entertains sur prising Virginia, and the Army clashes with strong Columbia in other featured games of the East. SPECTACULAR GAMES Down south and into the South west a number of spectacular games have been carded. Wander bilt meets Kentucky at Lexington; !; Tennessee plays Auburn at Knox. vile; North Carolina entertains Tulane’s Green wave and v. P. I. plays William and Mary in the Old Dominion State headliner. Texas battles Oklahoma and L. S. U. plays Rice in important as SignmentS. Big Ten and Blk Six tilts feature the play in the Midwest. Illinois Indiana, Iowa-WisconSin, Michigam Chicago, and Minnesota–Pur due is the western Conference slate for Saturday. Kansas State Missouri, and Nebra a-Iowa State features Blk Six competiton. California plays two “breather’‘ opponents next Saturday, enter taining College of the Pacific and California Aggies. In Pacific Coast Conference play, Stanford opposes Washington State and u C. L. A. meets a dissappoint. ing Washington eleven. The Su’ gar Bowl champion, Santa Clara eleven, takes on Texas A. and M At the close of the second ween end of warfare along the college grid front, Minnesota, Pittsburgh Santa Clara, Columbia, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Tennessee Southern Methodist, Texas Chris tian, and Brown assumed the lead in the quest for the national mythical championship. IMPRESSIVE VICTORIES All these teams won impressive victories over stern opposition, with Brown turning in the out. standing surprise of the day, trim. ming Harvard, 20–⁠13. Minnesota gained revenge OF its 1887 defeat by Nebraska pounding out a 1877 victory. Ohio State did likewise by defeating Indiana with pass for tally in the fourth period, 60. Santa Clara sounded to the ma. ton that she was ready TO rthe best of ‘em by Soundly thrashing Stanford, 90, and Pittsburgh, with its dream backfield,” ,” smothered Temple, 27–⁠6 before the largest crowd ever assembled in the Owls lair. Columbia again captured the hearts of the Gotham Scribes by whipping a young but energetic Yale machine, 27–⁠14, and Notre Dame, using “a players, ran over Kansas, conqueror Of Texas, SO. Tennessee turned back the as pirationS of a powerful Clemson team, 20–⁠7 with a last quarter touchdown surge, and Southern Methodist trimmed Arizona in an interSectional fray, 27–⁠7 that was impressive. Texas Christian, in quest of the Southwest title top pied Arkansas, ALA. CRISLER’S DEBUT In big state encounters, Michigan, starting out under Fritz Crisler, upset Michigan State, 40, while wisconsin schellaced Marquette 27–⁠0 in easy fashion. Old Penn inaugurated the Numger regime. by stopping Lafayette, undefeated last year, 346. and Navy won its second in a row, bowling over v. M. l., 26-O. Army swamped v. P. l., 80, and Vir. ginia defeated washington and Lee for the first time in seven years, 13–⁠0. Auburn and Tulane battled to a scorelesS tie for the third time in as many years. Locally, Georgetown swamped a highly-regarded Hampden-Syoney eleven, So, but Maryland, with its passing star. Charley Weidenger out of the lineup, was druhksd by Penn State, $50. George Washington made its first | start of the wear noSing ollt FIJI.

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Virginia leads 19–⁠13–⁠1 in 33 meetings, counting the 11 since this game.