Florida at Texas

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  Evening star, District of Columbia, October 2, 1939, page 14 (results column)

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  Loop Feuds Add To Heavy Week For Pigskin Fordhom Faces ‘Bomo, !, Notre Dame Tackles Georgia Tech NEW YORK, Oct. with one eye on the boxoffice and the other on the mythical national championship, the Nations leading football teams launch an impressive intersectional program this week which may be of benefit both ways. Already off to a good start with such impressive results as Pitts burgh’s 27–⁠6 victory over Washing ton, Minnesota S $40 rout of Arizona, Mississippi States 1910 triumph over Arkansas, the 800 beating Missouri handed Colorado and Vanderbilt’s 1872 upset of Rice last Saturday, the intersectional warfare spreads even more widely And where the teams don’t represent different sections, there are inter conference rivalries and titular battles in the major conferences to fill out the bill. Panthers Prove Class. Taking the weeks program by Sec tions, this is how it looks: CooI L ltC . I dlllllC1o al Cdoy lldNV shown they’re among the best in the East. West Virginia, despite a 44–⁠0 win over West Virginia Wesleyan, hardly figures to stop Pitt this week. Two other major Eastern powers test their strength in intersectional games. Holy Cross, which showed q wealth of power in trimming Man haitian, $50, faces Louisiana State, 14–⁠7 victim of Mississippi. Fordham, after trimming Waynesburg, BAT, faces Alabama, 21–⁠0 victor over little Howard. Army, which had some trouble stopping Furman, 1917, faces easier opposition in Centre. while Navy swings the other way, tackling Virginia’s good team after trimming William and Mary, 31–⁠6. The leading all-Eastern pairing is Carnegie Tech, which appears to be one of the best Eastern teams, against Temple, which dropped 80 decision to Georgetown Friday. The “Ivy League” barely gets under way with Columbia-Y Yale and Syracuse- Cornell as its leading games. Syracuse tuned up Friday with q 1910 win over Clarkson. Penn Lafayette. Princeton Williams and Harvard–Bates are other openers. Real Test for Gophers. Midwest: Minnesota showed that it has all kinds of power to toss into the Big Ten campaign, but the Gophers are due to get a real test against Nebraska, which fought In diana to TT tie Saturday Notre I Dame. whose hard-won 80 triumph over Purdue showed the Irish are in the forefront of the national title picture. faces an untested Georgia Tech outfit. Ohio State opens its campaign against Missouri of the Big Six. Northwestern starts with Okla homa’s Sooners, who were disappointed by their TT tie with South ern Methodist. Michigan opens in the traditional manner against Michigan State. Ten title race at Iowa City, while Iowa State and Kansas, pair of losers, meet in the first Big Six tussle. Wisconsin, which edged out Marquette, 14–⁠13, plays an intersectional game against Texas, 12–⁠0 winner over Florida. Marquette visits Kansas State. South: Dukes Blue Devils, Rose Bowl losers last January. open (See FULLERTON, Page A-16D

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Texas leads 3–⁠2–⁠1 in six meetings, counting the four since this game.