Tennessee at Duke

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  Evening star, District of Columbia, October 9, 1941, page 46

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  ATLANTA, Oct. 9-Tulane’s not great, but just football team trying to get along, said Coach Red Dawson today as he and his boys headed Texas-ward for Saturdays game with Rice Institute and their third intersectional battle in as many weeks. 1--WE haven’t any high-fallutin’ ideas like some people seem to have that we’re a great team declared Dawson. Were just a football team doing the best we can” Last year Tulane’s up-and-down team took Rice by a score of 1876. Our scouts report Rice has a great personnel” he explained. Rice Fears Tulane. At Houston, Coach Jess Nicely expressed dissatisfaction over the Owls first-game showing against Sam Houston State Teachers. Despite a 420 victory, he felt they looked ragged. Nicely gave his boys rough medicine from the start. In the first SCrimmage Monday Barron Ellis, regular wingback, suffered a cut lip and lost a tooth. Three third-Stringers quit the Rice team for jobs with an oil field equip ment company. All were sophomore backs Vols Prime for Comeback. MaQnuhlla KnnxUil1p Coach John Barnhill started Tennessee toward comeback after seeing the Vols lose their first game in 35 regular season starts last week end to Duke, 0–⁠19 But “Dayton’s Flyers, who meet Tennessee Saturday, limited they weren’t coming to Knoxville with the idea of losing. Harry Baujan pronounced DO John”) has watched his boys roll up IA points to none for three foes this year. They started with a $40 triumph over HillSdale CMichD, followed with $50 romp over Detroit Tech, and last Saturday Slogged through mud and driving rain to humble Marshall, TO. Dayton is undefeated and unscored on” said Baujan. land we’re going to try to keep it that way for as many Saturdays as possible. Tennessee is out of our division in football, but we never worry about anything except the way our boys carry out their assignments” Butler Apt to Idle. Barnhill, counting off injuries from the Duke game, said his first string tailback, Johnny Butler, prob ably would be on the sidelines Saturday, along with Tackle Leonard Simonetti and Tailback Bobby Offers. Butler suffered sprained

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Tennessee leads 14–⁠12–⁠2 in 28 meetings, counting the 19 since this game.