Notre Dame at Illinois

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  Evening star, October 31, 1940, page 62

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  Irish Top Wolverines In Strength, Ayers Illinois Mentor Mills, Zuppke Aide, Also Coils HoIfbuck Juzwik As Good os Harmon BY the Associated ‘Pss. CHICAGO, Oct. al Nobody seems to know just how good Notre Dame is, but one coach says that the talented Irish are better than Michigan. This is the unqualified opinion of Doug Mills, one of Bob Zuppke S trusted aides at Illinois, which played both teams. ‘Notre Danes strength is in its great store of reserves. Mills quoted Zuppke as saying after the Irish slapped 26–⁠0 defeat on the Illini Saturday. I’m beating the drums for Fullback Milt Pieful, many have overlooked the brilliant work of Steve Juzwik, right halfback at Notre Dame” Mills added. yet zuppke maintains that Juzwik is at good as Tom Harmon of Michigan” That’s about as high praise as you can give a football playef at this time.

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  The Wilmington morning star, North Carolina, October 27, 1940, page 1

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  N0tre Dame 26-O CHAMPAIGN, ILL.,, Oct. 26.-R- Notre Dame moved smoothly along footballs victory road again today, defeating Illinois 26 to 0 in Mem orial stadium before 63, 1856 spec %tators, largest crowd to see a game here in II years. The Irish, rack ing up their fourth victory in as many starts this fall, won as they pleased, with Notre Dame second and third stringers seeing as much service as the first eleven. The victors scored twice in the opening period and added touchdowns in the second and fourth quarters as Illinois failed to threaten seriously until the final minute of play. 4

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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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Notre Dame leads 11–⁠0–⁠1 in 12 meetings, counting the eight since this game.