Holy Cross at Brown

• 

  Evening star, District of Columbia, October 27, 1940, page 27

  Read the text

  Brown Goes Is Yards In Last Period, Tops Holy Cross, 9.6 Result ‘Breoks String Of Six Crusader Wins Over Bruin Team PROVIDENCE, R. l.. Oct. 26.- Holy Cross string Of six straight victories over Brown since 1882 was snapped here today, as the Bruins scored on a field goal in the first period and on a 76-yard touchdown parade in the fourth quarter to repei the Crusaders. 9–⁠6. Just before the intermlsslon whistle blew, Andy Natowich threw a pass that carried go yards. and Ed Murphy caught it for the touch down. The play covered 70 yards. That score offset Ernie Savignanos frst-period dropkick from the l8-yard line and enabled the Cru saders to stay in front through the third period. when the strong wind ruined Browns kicking. In the fourth period the Bruins started to roll A pass from Detwiler to Pete Laudati was good for Is yards. Andy High plunged 9 yards, and a 30-yard sprint by Detwiler, who reversed his field beau tifullv. paved the way for High to smash over from the l-foot line.

• 

  The Key West citizen. (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, Florida, October 28, 1940, page 1 (results column)

  Read the text

  Michigan Ended PENIS Unbeaten Record, 40; Tennessee Over Florida HarmOn’s Running And Passing Subdued In dams; Vols Scored In SecOnd-Half and sensational playing featured the football sport Saturday. Highlighting the drama of the glIuHon was the amazing work OF ION Harmon in running and passing ms s4IcnIgan wolverine teammates to a I4-U triumph over Pennsylvania Indians. Harmon sIreaked ~ yards for the 1Ifst touchdown and passed 10 YARDS to another wolverine fOI Tne second and last goal. His kicking OF two extra points ran his total points Tor five games to the impressive mark of 81, far ahead of his nearest rival, Frank Reagan OF the Indians. The highly-touted duel between Harmon and Reagan never ma tel Iallzed. PennS ace was help less against Michigan’s defensiVe ‘‘brIck-walr’ and was removed from the game early in the second period. Indians bat tied to the wolverines tWo-yard line in the final quarter but a futile pass spoiled their chance of scoring. Best Penn performance was credited to tackle Al WiStert, who kept Harmon from making several other touchdowns. The loss ended PENIS unbeaten- record and added another vic tory to Michigan’S string of triumphs, while remaining undefeated. Tennessee–Florida Two tOuchdownS and two exira points in the final period gave TenneSsee’s Volunteers a 14–⁠0 win over the Gators from Florida at Knoxville in a regular Southeastern Conference game. Two native F1oridianS, Bill Howling Of St. Pete and BUST Warren of Miami, were the down fall of the Gators. Nowling &C counted for the Vols first score after going through the inside of the left guard on Florida’S 49, yard line and racing down the field to safety Warren, acclaim ed a great pass thrower, entered the conflict in the last quarter. After gaining the middle of the field, he took the ball on a wide swing around left end and on to the goal posts Cornell Ohio State Keeping their record clean, Cornell’s Ithacans came from behind to down Ohio States Buck eyes, 21–⁠7. In the very first pc Rod, Ohio staged a 89-yard drive for touchdown that thrilled the capacity crowd in Schoellkopf Stadium at Ithaca but from then on they never had a chance. Cor nell evened the count in the sec ond quarter and clinched the battle in the final half. The IthacanS’ triumph cost them the services of their star end, Kirk Hershey, and Howard Dunbar. Hershey, returning aft er a two-game rest, suffered fur ther pain to an injured knee and Dunbar, wearing a mask, had his nose broken again. Other Scores Scores of other leading elevenS follow: Tulane, IA; North Carolina, Is. Navy, 81; Yale, o. Princeton, %; Rutgers, Is. Duke, %; Wake Forest, 0. St. Mary’S, 9; Fordham, 6. Syracuse. 8; Columbia, o. Penn State, Is; Temple, 0. Brown, 9; Holy Cross, 6. Dartmouth. Z; Harvard, g. Lafalette, 10; Army. 0. Notre Dame, 26; Illinois, 0. Northwestern, 20; Indiana, z. Texas Tech, 20; Marquette, Is. The Citadel. %: Oglethorpe. O. Rice, Is; Texas, 0. North Dakota, “a; North Dakota State, 0. Utah, 25; Denver, IA. Colgate. 81; Missouri, 0.

Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The text is the machine reading of the page, mistakes and all.

Holy Cross leads 24–⁠23–⁠2 in 49 meetings, counting the 32 since this game.