Princeton at Rutgers

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  Evening star, District of Columbia, November 7, 1938, page 14 (results column)

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  Hot Due|s Listed For Many High Ranking Teams Gopher Clash Among Important Battles Ahead NEW YORK, Nov. looming up to the middle of November with some of the Nations mightiest football teams just getting up off the ground after having been straight-armed by last Saturdays opponents, this week finds less than a dozen teams OF major rank still unbeaten and united. With the fall of such notable contenders as Pittsburgh and Califormia, victims Of Carnegie Tech anJ Southern California, respectively. the search for national champion ship contenders now must include the teams that have been tied or beaten once, but have kept right on moving. Without any effort to rank them, other than to point out that some obviously don’t play the kind of schedules that make champions, the unbeaten, united outfits are: East, Dartmouth and Georgetown; Midwest, Notre Dame, Oklahoma, Iowa State, Western Reserve; South, Tennessee and Duke: Southwest, Texas Christian and Texas Tech; Far West, Santa Clara. Unbeaten but tied are Villanova, Boston College and Utah Ctied twice.. Losers of one game which still rank as top-flight contenders include Pitt, Holy Cross, Carnegie, Fordham (tied, Cornell, Minnesota, Michigan, Northwestern (tiedD, Ala bama, Vanderbilt, Georgia, Baylor oied, California and Southern California. High Spots This Week. This weeks program, featuring renewals of some of footballs oldest classic rivalries. may help separate the solid grains from the chaff. Some Of the high spots are: East. Dartmouth, after “breather” win over Dickinson, takes on Cornell and Georgetown faces West Virginia, defeated TO by Western Reserve. Pitt, soundly beaten, 21–⁠10. by Carnegie, tackles Nebraska, whose first victory was 1877 win over Kansas. Carnegie meets Duquesne. Unbeaten, but tied Boston College and Villanova face Boston University and Temple. the last-named a $50 victim of Holy Cross. Fordham, barely victor over st. Mary’s, meets North Carolina. Syracuse, TO winner over Colgate, for the first time in 13 years. takes on Duke, undisputed Southern Conference leader. Other intersectional tilts send Harvard, 47-l3 winner over Chicago, against Virginia, Army against little Chattanooga and George Washington against Kansas. The No. l Ivy League game, in age and tradition, pits Princeton, which lost 20–⁠18 to Rutgers, against Yale, winner over Brown, 20–⁠14. Holy Cross-Brown, Columbia Navy, Penn sylvania-Penn State and New York U.-Colgate are other major pairings. Middle West. Northwestern took 20–⁠13 thumping from Wisconsin, thus the (See FOOTBALL, Page A-l6.)

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  The Washington times, District of Columbia, November 7, 1938, page 20 (results column)

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  field goal margin with Alabama whipping Tulane, Rice noSing out Arkansas. Fordham topping St. Mary’s, Utah State also winning. 80, from Brigham Young, and Manhattan upsetting North Carolima State by the same margin. In one of the most-cherished performances of the Saturday afternoon grid warfare. Rutgers trounced Princeton in a thriller, 20–⁠18. The triumph marked the anniversary of football as first played between the Scarlet and the Tigers. After waiting for 80 long years, Rutgers finally un. corked a fourth-quarter touch down to win. District elevens Jared even Stephan. Catholic University turned on a fourth-quarter scor ing spree to come from behind to score two touchdowns and nose out DePaul at Chicago, 14–⁠13 George Washington met a tartar in Clemson at GreenVille, S. C.. bowling, 80, in a game marked by spectacular long jauntS fol tallleS.

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Princeton leads 53–⁠17–⁠1 in 71 meetings, counting the 36 since this game.