Cornell at Army

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  The Wilmington morning star, North Carolina, October 13, 1940, page 1

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  Cornell Downs Army WEST POINT, N. Y, Oct. r. PA colossal Cornell football team, full of drive and savvy,, handed Army the most colossal licking in 81 years of cadet grid iron history this afternoon: Opera tino with even more controlled fury than last years all-winning com hination. the big red team from ithaca scored in every perloo’ piled up seven touchdowns accreol |, ted to seven different men, and wound up on the very large end Of a $50 score. 1t bettere’.- by 26 points the previous high for an Ar INV shutout, set by Harvard in 1900, and by nine points the previous high score run up on Army, 1854 by the Princeton team of 1893.

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  The Waterbury Democrat, October 15, 1940, page 12 (results column)

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  New York, Oct. 15.-EaStern foot ball apparently has produced Amer icas No. 1 gridiron machine of the 1940 season ir Cornell. In two starts the awesome Big Red squad has scored total of 79 points against Colgate and Army and today ranks first in every system of rating col lege elevens. The Lambert Trophy Committee, conducting a week-by-week rating of teams in the Eastern sector nj competition for the annual Lambert Eastern Champion of the Year, this week moves Cornell into conn., plete dominance of the section. The magnificent Big Red club that bat tered Army into 45–⁠0 submission is listed at .975, thirteen full points ahead of Boston College, which maintained its same standing of last week .962, off a free-scoring defeat of the Temple Owls. The Lambert Trophy point-rating system is intended as a handy guide in comparing the merits of Eastern college elevens. It is chart based on several factors-personnel, con- dition O. individual stars, tactical development past performance and present morale: The numbered ranking is not intended to be a per- centage table, but an index to de- termine the relative strength Of r1- valS. Tigers Out. The defeat suffered by Princeton against Navy last week dropped the husky Tigers from the select list ot Lambert Leaders, the group which outclasses ali Eastern opposition This weeks leaders are: Cornell, Boston College, Fordham, George town, Penn, Villanova, Navy and Pitt. However, Princeton’s setback was not alone responsible for it’s drop from seventh ranking Eastern team to twelfth. The narrow margin ot the victory over Vanderbilt, obvious weaknesses l.. the middle of the line and a lack of backfield speed make Princeton look less formidable than had been generally predicted Cornell’s elevation to absolute command O.: Eastern elevens is based on several things. The speed and precision of both the first ano second elevens wearing hte crimson jerseys, the versatility of attack both on the ground and in the air the solidness of the defense-al contribute to make the Ithaca clut one of the finest football teams 1T the galle,s history. This week thu Big Reds are heav- ily favored to defeat Syracuse, team which moved up by its one. sided conquest of N. Y. U., showing signs of being better knit than dur ing the rout by Northwestern or October 5th. However, four ol five touchdown margin is indicated in Cornell .975, against Syracus’ .9O9. In she Lambert Trophy rating every Is points is figured roughly tt represent the margin of a touch down. Some of the leading eastern pair ings of the week, and the Lamber Trophy rating. follow: | CaEhlS Nh1u Vahs~ h~sNeAsb N~sssAs@~ss Cornell (.975) vS. Syracuse (0O9) Cornell adds to glory. Penn (95.) vs. Princeton G928) Penn by two tcuchdowns Pitt C.94D vs. Fordhain (96D Rams should come through. N. Y. U. (.870) vs. Holy CroS (020). Third loss in row for N. Y. U Yale (.86D> vs. Dartmouth (.e76) Close. but edge to Green. Harvard (.eo2) vs. Army tee4 Harvard rated close winner. Lehigh (ei2) vs. Penn Stat (O3e). Runaway for State. Bowdo.n (.e22) vs. Williams t,8eo) Williams by 20–⁠0. Brown (.8e0) ys. Tufts (.e27) Should be easy for Brown. (T’he system hit Penn State oi the nose last week but. with Ali thl other experts. iniased the victory O Uayy over prineetonJ How They stand. !

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  The Nome nugget, Alaska, October 14, 1940, page 1 (results column)

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  Football Scores SATURDAY, Oct. 12, (P) - Michigan State 20-Purduc Il Columbia 20-Dartmouth Colgate 20-BroWn 3 Navy 12-Princeton 6 Fordham 20-Tulane ‘ Southern Methodisct Pitts burg ‘ Syracuse AZ New York Uni versity 13 Cornell 45-Army 0 Pennsylvania 50-Yale ‘ North Carolina 21 - Texas Christian II Holy Cross 18-Carnegie Tech 0. Michigan 26-Hardvard 0 Boston College 33-Temple 20 Nebraska 13-Indiana 2 Notre Dame-26 Georgia Tech 26. Southern Cal. 13-Illinois Ohio State 3-Northwestern 6 Mississippi 28-Georgia IA Missouri 24-Kansas State l3 Wisconsin 12-IoWa 30 West Virginia 13-Penn State IT, Auburn 7-Mississippi State ‘ Lake Forrest 0-Clemson 39 Tennessee 53-Chattanooga 0 Oklahoma 16-Texas 19 Kentucky 7-Vanderbilt T. Washington 10-Oregon 0. Gonzaga 25-Idaho 0 Washington 9-California 6 Stanford 7-Santa Clara 6 Texas A and M 7-Ucla 0

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Army leads 3–⁠2 in five meetings, counting the three since this game.