Nebraska at Iowa

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  Detroit evening times, Michigan, September 28, 1942, page 16 (results column)

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  .Fdvorites Flop, Underdogs Rise In Grid0peners Footballs first big Saturday OF 1912 has come and gone. Hopes once high have fallen and where gloom prevailed there is dew and sunshine. That is the case in many parts OF the country. Notre Dame. hailed as the best college team in the land, was held to a tie. Great Lakes. called too strong for college competition, was completely outplayed and humbled by a spectacular Michigan eleven. Proud Navy expected TO have its best eleven in years fell before an underrated Williams and Mary team. So IL was down the list. In brief here il is: OH BOY, OH BOY, OH BOY Michigan comes up with a colorful offense and brilliant forward wall to turn back the great collection Of pros and college graduates called the Great Lakes Navy Training Station No fluke this. the Wolverines completely outplayed and outfought the big ger. heavier and more eXperienced sailors all the way. MORAL VICTORY NOTRE DAME SYSTEM VS.. THE frank Leahy, Notre Dame coach, shifted to the famed T formation this fall and assembled what many said was to be Notre Danes greatest team. Wis consisn, under Harry Stuhldreher, one of the Four Horsemen of Notre Dame, stuck with the time honored Notre Dame system. First returns, no decision. Teams battle to tie. But ii is a moral victory for Wisconsin, the underdog In the contest. SCOURGE OF THE NORTH Bernie Bierman has moved his the ater of operations from Minnesota to Iowa Pre-Flight Cadets, but it’s the same old story. Power and lots of IL for Bierman. Grief and lots of it for the competition. Saturday the Iowa Cadets, who play Mime sofa next Saturday and then come TO MiehigaH,.beat very good Northwestern eleven, 20 to II. SHADOWS OF COMM EVENTS-Ohio State swamps Fort Knox, So to 0. Minnesota, Big Ten champions, in their first start under new coach George Hauser. scored at will against weak Pittsburgh eleven. so to 7. Illinois, playing its first game in 80 years without Bob Zuppke as coach, got seven touchdowns for the new mentor Ray Eliot to bury North Dakota. as to 0. With Bill Hillenbrand in high gear. the Hoosiers of Indiana set new scoring rec ord for their stadium, whipping Butler, SO to 0. Iowa surprised a good Nebraska eleven and won. 27 to 0. after a scoreless first period. BINGo, DOWN THEY GO THE MIGHTY HAVE FALLEN and Mary 3. Navy O.. Tennessee 0, South Carolina O.. Washington State 6, Stanford o.. Tulane 27, University of Southern California 13. Dartmouth II, Holy Cross 6. HATS OFF TO-Clarence Mum, line coach of Michigan, who developed forward wall that outplayed| Great Lakes, although outweighed| 25 pounds to the man. SATUR RID AY’S CHILDREN The Michigan line. Bob Chappius, who threw the touchdown pass for the Wolverines. and Paul White, who caught it. Bob Wiese. a sophomore who played so minutes in his first game at fullback. GEORGE Ceithaml. who did a flawless job Of running the Michigan eleven. Pat Rarder, who spanked Wisconsin in their tie with Notre Dame. Bill Hillenbrand, who led the In. diana offense with a 60-yard touch down in the first two minutes of play. Big Bill Daley OF Minnesota, who scored four touehdowns. Bob Steuber of Missouri, who scored three touchdowns, one on a 53yard romp. GOOD START-Clark Shaughmessy. who left Stanford to take over at Maryland, led his team to| a 34-to-0 win over Connecticut. SERVICE TEAMS – JIMMY Crowley’s North Carolina re-fiightI school trimmed Harvard. 13 to o; Georgia Cadets IL, Pennsylvania 6; Iowa Cadets 20. Northwestern IL; Il; Michigan 9, Great Lakes O; Princeton %. Lakehurst Training School 6; st. Mary’s pre-fiightI School 9, Oregon o. LONGEST RUN OF THE DAY -Pittsburgh’s Tony DiMatteo’s 9S-yard return of a kickoff against Minnesota.

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  The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, September 28, 1942, page 6 (results column)

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  FOOT BAIL @ .ll3SW2 IFS Mr The following are final scores O leading football games played las Saturday afternoon, the opening date of the grid season: College of Pacific 0; University of Washington 27. Oklahoma 0; Oklahoma State 0 tie Wake Forest 0; North Carolina 6 Tennessee 0; South Carolina 0 tie. Lakehurst Naval Station G. Princeton 20. Marquette IA; Kansas 0. Kansas State 0; Texas GA. Fordham IA; Purdue ‘. Geneva 26; Carnegie Tech O. Lafayette 16; Cornell 20 Wesleyan 6; Coast Guard IA. William and Mary 3; Navy O. American International o; Bos- ton 6. Lawrence 0; Colgate 49. Ohio State 59; Knox 0. Georgia Navy Preflight IA; Penn 6. Notre Dame T; Wisconsin ‘. Nebraska 0; Iowa 27. South Dakota 0; Illinois 27 Auburn 0; Georgia Tech IS. Great Lakes 0; Michigan 9. North Carolina Navy Preflight IS; Harvard 0. Dartmouth IT; Holy Cross 6. Fort Monmouth O; Columbia 39. Duke 21; Davidson O. Iowa Naval Preflight School, 25; Northwestern 12. Pittsburgh 2; Minnesota 50. California 6; St. Mary’s 0. Washington State 6; Stanford O. Oregon State 32; Idaho o. St. Mary’s Preflight 10; Oregon 9. Tulane 27; Southern California l3. Santa Clara 12; Utah o.

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Nebraska leads 26–⁠20–⁠1 in 47 meetings, counting the 25 since this game.