Rutgers at Maryland

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  The Wilmington morning star, North Carolina, November 22, 1940, page 6

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  MARYLAND TRIUMPHS I4–⁠7 OVER RUTGERS Murphy Leads Terrapins To Upset Victory In First Major Win In Two Years BALTIMORE, Nov. 21-- Up – Maryland’s oft-beat ten Terrapins, though outweighed and outmanned today, came out of their shells to play inspired football and deliver sound licking to heavily favored Rutgers, IA to 7. With lite Joe Murphy leading the parade, the Old Liners played near-perfect football before 5000 Thanksgiving day fans to score their first major football victory in two years. Not until the clock was ticking away the last 20 seconds did the Scarlet manage to dent pay-dirt against the determined defense thrown up by the lightweight Mary landers. Then it was on a desperate now-or-never 19-yard pass from Louis Bauer to Norman Kempson. The crowd hardly had settled before the flying feet of Murphy, who scored both touchdowns, gave the biggest individual thrill of the day. With less than a minute gone, little Joe swung around his right end through a mass of Rutgers men and outdistanced the second ary to race 56 yards unmolested for a touchdown. Harold Berry placekicked the extra point. !

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  Evening star, District of Columbia, November 22, 1940, page 54 (results column)

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  Corne||-Penn Scrap To Decide Honors In Ivy League Maryland Victory Over Rutgers Is Big Upset Of Thanksgiving Duy = NEW YORK, Nov. a. The Thanksgiving football turkey. . lean but succulent dish, was picked to the bones yesterday and the Nations fans are going to get q bigger and better grid menu tomorrow. There will be championships decided, hallowed rivalries renewed and important intersectional jousts in the last widespread fling Of the season. The leadership of the mythical Ivy League will be at stake as Cor nell and Penn collide before SELL out crowd of $4,000 at Philadelphia’s Franklin Field. The Missouri Valley Conference crown hangs on the outcome of Tulsa’s tuSsle with the Oklahoma Aggies and Clemson needs to conquer Furman to insure the Southern Conference champion ship. Tops in the traditional games will be such venerable engagements as Yale Harvard, Tennessee–Kentucky, Ohio State Michigan, Pitt = Penn State, Virginia North Carolina, Purdue-Indiana and Lafayette-Lehigh. The major intersectional trays in volve unbeaten Boston College against Auburn and Oklahoma Temple. Maryland Scores Biggest Upset. This is pretty fancy fare, but 1t has to be to improve upon the table set for the holiday yesterday. The chief conference develop ment was Utah clinching the Rocky Mountain Big Seven title through a 3–⁠3 tie between Colorado and Denver Either of the latter elevens could have moved into tie for the crown. but they found the one sure way of eliminating each other. The Utes celebrated their good fortune by pummeling Idaho, 1876, in a non-conference contest while Utah State walloped Wyoming, 1910, to keep their victims in the Big Seven cellar. The days best spectacle from the fans viewpoint was Missouri’s 1920 sizzler with Kansas. Paul Christman, making his last appearance in Tiger uniform. ran for two touchdowns, pitched his famous passes for another and set up all but one of Missouris other tallies. The biggest upset was Marylands 14–⁠7 rout of Rutgers, which previously had lost only to Princeton and undefeated Lafayette. W. and NJ. Pulls Surprise. William and Mary surprised some people by smashing the Uni versity of Richmond, 1910, for the Virginia State hcnors and knocked the Spiders out of a slim chance to tie for the Southern Conference title. Virginia Military vanquished Virginia Tech, 14–⁠0. Otherwise form received softer treatment. In the East Fordham’s once-beaten Rams raided Arkansas by air. 27–⁠7, and Marshall helped its galloping Jackie Hunt to an all-time scoring record by wal loping West Virginia Wesleyan 67–⁠0. Hunt scored four touchdowns to bring his total for the year to q for l62 points. Twenty-six touch downs was the old mark. Wittenberg remained undefeated and united by humbling Heidelberg, 35–⁠13, for the Ohio Confer ence title. Texas Tech. tied once, edged past st. Louis. San Jose (CalifD State ran its victory string to 10 straight by stopping South Dakota, 40–⁠7, in “prune bowl” game. San Jose’s only loss in two years was this seasons opener.

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.

Maryland leads 12–⁠10 in 22 meetings, counting the 17 since this game.