Tennessee vs. Boston College

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  The Daily Alaska empire, January 2, 1941, page 5

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  BOSTON COLLEGE WINNER Great Tennessee VoIun- teers Lose 19 10 13in Sugar Bowl 6ame NEW ORLEANS, La. Jan D. Boston College defeated the great Tennessee Volunteers yeSter la y afternoon in the last four minutes Of the Sugar Bowl game as scraWn- ey halfback Charley O’Rourke in- tercepted pass. then passed, then ran and passed again three times and tossed and hit the bullseye fin ally on the fourth time and then dropped back TcnneSsee’S defenses scattered To stop the pass. O’Rourke faked q pass ran 20 yards for the winning SIX points before crowd of 72.- GOO spectators, the largest football throng in southern history The final score was Boston 19; Tennessee 13. Other than the great work of O’Rourke the two teams were evenly matched. Inc Bcstonians came from be- hind twice to tie the score. Boston College made 13 first downs and Tennessee made eleven.

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Tennessee leads 8–⁠2 in 10 meetings, counting the nine since this game.