Ohio State at Illinois

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  Evening star, November 14, 1938, page 33 (results column)

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  Sectional Titles Only at Stake In Big Ti|ts Grown Decisions Due In Big Six, Big Ten, Maybe on Coast NEW YORK, Nov 14-Theres a lull in the football storm this week. just before the final Thanksgiving Day blast, and the teams that retanned their championship aspirations over the past week end appear in good positions to keep them an other week. Only Dartmouth. beaten, 14–⁠7, by Cornell; Iowa State, tied 1913, by Kansas State. and Santa Clara, nipped, TO, by St. Mary’s, were removed from the list of undefeated and united major teams over the week end. The survivors were: East-Georgetown, Villanova (tieO. Boston College (tiedD. MidWest-Notre Dame, Oklahoma, Western Reserve, Iowa State (tie6. South-Tennessee, Duke (also unscored on. Southwest-Texas Christian, Texas Tech. Far West-Utah (tied twice.. Loop Titles Still at Stake. All but Tennessee and Western Reserve play next Saturday, but so many of their beaten, but still mighty opponents will be idle that no clear picture of the national title situation will emerge until after Thanksgiving. Up for definite decision, however. are the Big Ten and Big Six conference championships and the dead locked Pacific Coast race may be settled. Surveying the present situation by sections: East. Georgetown hasn’t played as diff cult schedules as teams like Pitt or Fordham, so its title claims remain clouded The Hoyas neatly knocked off an old rival West Virginia, 14–⁠0, last Saturday and tackle Maryland. the “pushover” of the Southern Con. ference, next. Boston College didn’t gain much prestige in Fridays 21–⁠14 victory over Boston u. and now faces little St. Anselm unbeaten and united in its class Villanova, 20–⁠7 winner over Temple, plays Boston U. Cornell went up fully as far as Dartmouth went down when the Big Red team triumphed and the vic tory virtually clinched “Ivy League. laurels for Cornell unless it slips against Penn Thanksgiving. Yale, Harvard Renew Old Feud. The traditionally great Yale-Harward game. which bears only upon the Big Three title, is this weeks Eastern headliner, although Yale took 20–⁠7 drubbing from Princeton, while the Crimson was warming up with a 40-l3 victory over Virginia. Syracuse. walloped 21–⁠0 by Dukes great team. and Columbia. 14–⁠9 VIC tim of Navy, meet in another ira ditional scrap, as do Lafayette and Lehigh. Pitts Panthers. who helped them selves to 1870 decision over Ne braska without Marshall Goldberg’s aid. took on an ancient enemy, Penn State, which tied Penn. TT. Army. after 34–⁠13 win over Chattanooga, returns to major action against Princeton. Carnegie, 21–⁠0 winner over Duquesne, and Holy Cross, 14–⁠12 victor over Brown, are among the idle teams. Fordham, held to a scoreless tie by North Carolina, takes on South Carolina. Middle West. From the national viewpoint, NorthWestern-Notre Dame is the big game, but the battle between Wis consin and Minnesota is the Big Ten headliner. With the confer ence season closing. the winner will get the title. If they tie, Ohio State. victorious over Illinois. 32–⁠14. can take the crown by defeating Michigan, which battled Northwestern to a scoreless draw. Oklahoma virtually sewed up the Big Six title by whipping Missouri, 21–⁠0, while Iowa State was being tied by Kansas State. but the sit uation can be altered suddenly if Iowa State should win their wind up game Saturday. Michigan State, 20–⁠14 winner over Marquette, meets Temple, and Detroit, TO victor over North Carolina State, plays Tulsa in the best intersectional tilts. Southwest. Texas Christian, which trimmed Texas, 28–⁠6, for its fourth straight conference victory, and Rice, jolted out of a contending position when (See FULL LERTON. Page C-20

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  The Washington times, District of Columbia, November 14, 1938, page 40 (results column)

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  ’19–⁠0, with Lou Zontini running “a yards for the first touchdown. Georgetown went bowl-conscious by drubbing West Virginia, 40. at Morgartown. Maryland took its seventh pasteing of the season at GAINESVILLE, Fla, AT. American University was spilled by Haver. ford, 27-O, on the Eagle Field. Navy spotted Columbia nine points and then won the ball game in the second half, 14–⁠9 Oklahoma preserved its undefeated and united status by turn ing back Missouri, 21–⁠10. Georgia surprised in some quarters by holding Alabama to 14–⁠14. Pitt, with Goldberg on the sidelineS, punched Ne bras a around at Lincoln, 1870, while Tennessee whipped Vanderbilt, 14–⁠0. Carnegie Tech, conqueror of mighty Pittsburgh, barged over Duquesne, 21–⁠0, and Wisconsin topped U. C. L. A., 14–⁠7, in a Pa cific intersectional tilt. Northwestern and Michigan waged a Scoreless draw to ruin each others hopes for the Big Ten title. while Ohio State moved closer to the same crown by shellacking Illinois, 32–⁠14. Harvard trampled Virginia, 40–⁠13, and Penn and Penn State played to a TT deadlock.

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Officially, Ohio State leads 70–⁠30–⁠4; as played, 71–⁠30–⁠4 in 105 meetings, counting the 78 since this game.