Duquesne at Pittsburgh

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  Evening star, October 8, 1938, page 16 (results column)

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  BIGGEST .GR|D|RON SATURDAY IS HERE Notre Dame and Duke Most Favored in Struggles Between Sections. NEW YORK. Oct. s.-The Lions are ready to roar, the Scarlet Scourge is ready to scourge, and the Gophers are ready to do whatever Gophers do when they get agitated. In other words, the biggest Saturday OF the football season is of and running. There is a strong ivy tinge in the East, where players meet the same teams their grandfathers fought. In the Midwest and on the Pacific Coast conference rivalries which make or break q football team are on tap. The South features tussles between representatives Of its two major cir cults, while intersectional contests Of considerable importance are on tap everywhere. Chief intersectional battles are Ohio State–Southern California, Santa Calara-Texas A. and NJ, Notre Dame Georgia Tech, Colgate-Duke and Louisiana State Rice. They’re all bound to be tough, but Notre Dame and Duke are pronounced favorites. Trojans and Buckeyes Draw. The days biggest crowd, $4,000, Is expected at Columbus as Southern California’s Trojans, after sorry start, seek to rewin some of their national prestige at Ohio States expense. Standout of four Western Confer ence games is Minnesota Purdue, which Gopher fans are prone to regard as Just another test for their heroes. Other pairings are Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois Indiana and Michigan Chicago. The Ivy League and its associates supply most of the Eastern action. Columbia throws Sid Luckman and little else against a powerful Army eleven; Penn meets Yale, which should be improved; Cornell’s mighty legions invade Cambridge for bout with Harvard, and Dartmouth, the preseason Ivy League favorite, plays Princeton. Might Pittsburgh tackles Duquesne an always dangerous local rival. Navy faces Virginia and Syracuse meets Maryland. In the South, Tennessee Auburn and Kentucky Vanderbilt are the tor Southeastern Conference billings Clemson-V. M. I. and South Carolina. Wake Forest hold the stage In thu Southern loop. The action should b hot and heavy in interconferenc’ clashes between North Carolina anc Tulane and Alabama and North Caro-. lima State. One Game In Southwest. Arkansas and Baylor promise dizz, aerial doings in the only Southwes Conference tilt. On the coast Washington starts { comeback against U. G. L. A. after twt poor games and Stanford and Wash ington State both try to repair theil fallen fortunes. Southwestern teams produced { smashing victory and an unexpected defeat in last nights principal contests: Texas Christian, with Dave! O’Briens passes hitting the bulls eye. smothered Temple, 1856, whil’ Southern Methodist was beaten, TO by Marquette on blocked kick in tn last quarter Detroit swamped Cath olic University, 27–⁠0; George Wash ington defeated Butler, 26–⁠0, ant Loyola of New Orleans turned bAcl st. Mary’s of Texas, 14–⁠12, in othe intersectional games. Georgia whipped Furman, 3S-7, ant The Citadel beat Presbyterian in lead ing Southern contests. Farther West Denver, one-time Rocky Mountain power, played . scoreless tie with Col orado State in its first big Seven tussle, while New Mexico wallopet Colorado College, $50.

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  Imperial Valley press, October 10, 1938, page 4 (results column)

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  UPSETS AGAIN MARK NATIONS GRID PROGRAM NEW YORK, Oct. 10. CUP – Football grabbed the sports stage today. thanks to the Yankees, and the diehards whove been lavishing their affection on baseball can give undivided attention to a grid season already we’ll under way. Although forced to share the week end spotlight with the World Series, seven big favorites were knocked over and several of the greats had to go “all OUT to remain undefeated. While Army, Ohio State, Nebraska, University of Washington, In diana and Arkansas were defeated, powerhouse elevens like Alabama, Notre Dame, Minnesota and Santa Clara were having close calls. Prob ably as big a surprise as any was the failure of any of the big three Yale. Princeton and Harvard-to score a point. Ohio State, conqueror of Indiana, was upset 14–⁠7 by Southern Cali fornia; Nebraska was edged 81 by Iowa State; Washington was blank ed 1870 by UCLA, and Indiana bow ed 1872 to an inspired Illinois. Pittsburgh was the only one of the grid giants to win as expected -27-0 over Duquesne. California, the big powerhouse of the Pacific coast, failed to get a contest in a doubleheader. The Golden Bears walloped California Aggies and College of the Pacific by identical scores, 48–⁠0. Alabama, southern candidate for national honors, was able to make but two touchdowns for a 40 VIC tory over a much weaker North Carolina State eleven; Notre Dame, considered 30 points better than Georgia Tech, won 14–⁠6; Minnesota was held to one touchdown in beat ing Purdue TO; and Santa Clara nosed Texas A and M, TO.

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Pittsburgh leads 5–⁠2 in seven meetings, counting the two since this game.