Indiana at Nebraska

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  The Wilmington morning star, North Carolina, October 14, 1940, page 1 (results column)

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  Northwestern, Penn A n d Stanford Take Top Rank In Their Respective Sections NEW YORK, Oct. 13.-R-The countrywide collegiate football pic ture, as confusing as an unassem. bled jigsaw puzzle before the sea. o started, is settling into some sort of definite pattern after the week-end’s games. The largest single pieces of reshuffling were achieved by North western, Pennsylvania, and Stan. ford-the Wildcats with their Ga conquest of Ohio State W h i C h pushed them a notch up and the Buckeyes a notch down in t e western conference ratings; t h e Red and Blue in a 50–⁠7 crusher of Yale, which combined with the Princeton’s 12–⁠6 defeat by Navy to make Penn rather than the I’ll gers loom as Cornells main Ivy league rival. Stanford by nosing out Santa Clara, rs, to emerge as the west coasts only unbeaten united team. On an afternoon marked by brilliant individual exploits, North Westerns Bill DeCorrevont was a blond ball of fire that blazed the victory trail for the Wildcats. He was the offensive and defensive standout as his team moved UP in the big Nine” to join Michigan, whose Tommy Harmon a h s three-game scoring count to SO, points in the $50 win over Har. ward; Minnesota, which rested ur for Ohio State, and Iowa, which served notice it will be in the run ming by following fullback Bill Green to a 30–⁠12 walloping of Wis consin. The rest of the mid-Western sit utation appears to be in the hands of Notre Dame, which used its regulars sparingly but for three touchdowns in turning back Georgia Tech, 1920, among the lin DEPENDENT and of Nebraska, which passed its way to a 13–⁠7 conquest of Indiana, in the Big Six. At the top of the Eastern heap are Penn and Cornell. While Penn was handing Yale the worst defeat in Eli grid history Cornell was rolling up a As : 0 score, worst ever pinned on the Army. Frank Reagan might be singled out as the Penn star, since he scored three of the seven touch downs. But while we saw Cornell play, we couldn’t attempt to single out any one man for the Ithacans. Theirs was a triumph of t a m play by a team that had every. thing, and we expect>to go a long way before we see another like it There are others not to be over. looked in the East. Fordham made the most of its chances, including the fine blocking that helped Jim Noble return a punt 81 yards for the first touchdown, in avenging a 1889 defeat by Tulane, 2O-7. Boston colleges Charley O’Rourke had another fine afternoon as Bos. ton won over Temple university $50. Navy, already a proved de. fensive power, numbered It’s Of fensive guns for 70 and 80-yard

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Indiana leads 12–⁠9–⁠3 in 24 meetings, counting the 19 since this game.