Ohio State at Cornell

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  The Wilmington morning star, North Carolina, October 29, 1940, page 1

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  Cornell Coach Charged With Rule Violation As Result OF Cylinder Waving COLUMBUS, O., Oct. 28.-tR- A little white cylinder stirred up a formal protest that CornelPs, Carl Snavely directed play of his football team from the bench against Ohio State Saturday. Ohio States athletic director, l.. w. st. John, charged that Snavely’s manipulations of the cylinder signalled the quarterback W h a t plays to call as Cornell rolled W. the Buckeyes 21–⁠7 in their inter sectional clash at Ithaca, N. Y. The protest citing Snavely for “a gross violation of the official football rules” and a breach of sportmanship’‘ went to A S W. Bushnell, executive director of the Eastern intercollegiate association with a copy to James Lyman, Cor nelps athletic administrator. Snavely Sunday termed St. Johns assertions “unWarranted an contrary to fact” and said that the complaint should have been made to game officials. st. John told reporters the officials had been asked to watch for signalling, but he observed that it was diff cult for them to watch anything but the game. St. Johns protest expressed belief the alleged signalling was I’m known to other Cornell athletic Of ficials. Not only was the signalling detected said St. John, “but as the game progressed we were enabled to forecast the play to be called by the manipulation of the cylinder in Coach Snavely’s hand”

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

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  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.

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Cornell leads 2–⁠0 in two meetings.