Cornell at Army

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  Evening star, October 11, 1942, page 35

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  Army’s Quick Score JoIts Cornell Into B-fo-8 Defeat Big Red Never Comes Back From WoIIop Early in Contest WEST POINT, N. Y, Oct. TO- Army struck Cornell from the air at the outset of their game today and dealt jolt from which the Big Red never recovered, the Cadets going on to win about as they pleased, % to 8, before 10000 fans. With Undersecretary of War Robert Patterson helping the Cadet Corps cheer them on, the soldiers scored twice in the first period, again in the second and showed across a final touchdown in the fourth quarter. They were on the Cornell 1-yard line when the game ended They roundly outplayed their old rivals from Ithaca in every depart ment. The game really was decided in the opening minutes of play. Capt. Hank Mazur, brilliant player all day for the Army. ran the kickoff to his own 26-yard line, and two spectacular plays later the ball was over the Cornell goal line. - Mazur Makes Long Pass. . = Mazur first took the ball from Ralph Hill, faded back perhaps Is yards and heaved a pass mile to Lester Salzer, his left end. Salzer was hauled down on the % by the shaken Comedians, but it was only momentary reprive. On the next play, Hill took the ball on a deep reverse and swept around his own left end to score standing up. Ed ward Murphy went in to placekick the first of four extra points and the Army was on its way. Before the period ended the Mazur-to-Hi pass combination went 81 yards for another touch down, the pay-off pitch travelling 10 yards into Hills arms in the enc zone. In the second quarter, with Cornell still cropping helplessly, the Army seconds plunged and passed their way q yards to third score Bob Woods southpawed an aerial II yards to Dale Hall over the goal line to make it 21–⁠0. Cornells Tally Spectacular. Cornells touchdown came in the third period on the most spectacular play of the game. Stalled on the Big Reds IA on fourth down, Mazu1 shot pass into the right corner OF the field intended for Hill, but Ken Davis Of Cornell plucked it from the air on his own 2-yard line and raced SO yards up the sidelines tc score. Given brilliant blocking on the way, Davis never was more than a few yards from the side-stripe as he made his long run. Joe Andersons placement for extra point was blocked. Army came back to go “a yards for its final score midway of the fourth quarter, Big Tom Lombardc plunging over from the S after Ed Rafalko, another substitute, had put it there with a 13-yard end-around sprint. A l5-yard holding penalty that backed Army up to it’s own paved the way for a Cornell safety late in the game. The center snap went far over Woods head and he only could ground the ball behind the goal posts, giving Cornell two points | thof didn’t holm r,,l1ch

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  The daily monitor leader, Mount Clemens, Mich., October 12, 1942, page 1 (results column)

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  Saturdays Grid Stars tumble for winning marker. Bob Odell, Penn halfbackpassed to one touchdown, set up two others with fine runs and led Quackers to 1915 triumph over Yale, coached by his broth er, HOWE. Angelo Bertelli, Notre Dame quarterback-passed to all four Irish touchdowns and kicked three extra points to lead way to 27–⁠0 shutout of Stanford, completing Ia of 20 passes, nine in a row, for 233 yards. Mike Micka, Colgate fullback scored two touchdowns in 81 10 victory over Dartmouth, set ting up one of them with pass interrogation and 23-yard run. Hank Margarita, Brown half back-covered ola yards in rs attempts and scored two touch downs in 1921 victory over Co. lumbia. frankie Sinkwich. Georgia Observation-Disclosures his 22nd birthday by scoring three touch downs in 48–⁠13 rout of Mississippi. Elroy Hirsch, Wisconsin half back-scored both touchdowns in leading his team to 17–⁠0 win over Missouri. Joe Muha, v. I. I. fullbackscored three touchdowns, pass ed to two others and kicked two extra points in 1918 rout of Virginia. Bob Perina, Princeton half back-ran and passed Tigers to 100 victory ever Navy, setting up both Princeton scores. Paul Sarringhaus, Ohio State halfback – tossed touch touch down passes and set up a third in 1912 victory over Southern California. Hank Mazur, Army halfback his running and passing car ried Army to 28–⁠8 victory over Cornell. AL Santucci, Santa Clara CEN ter-boosted extra point which gave Broncos 7–⁠6 victory over California. Rudolph Mobley, Hardin-Simmons halfback-scored touch down which beat Southern Methodist, 7–⁠6, and gained 104 yards in 81 tries.

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  The Daily Alaska empire, October 12, 1942, page 5 (results column)

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  FOOTBALL . SCORES The following are final scores of leading football games played last Saturday afternoon: University of Washington 15; oregon 2. Washington State 68; Montana Is. Oregon State T; UCLA 30. Santa Clara T; California 6. Cornell 8; Army 28 Georgia Preflight 26; Duke 12. Buffalo T; Washington and Jef- ferson 13. Maine T; New Hampshire 20. Baylor 20; Arkansas 2. Tennessee 34; Dayton 6. Rice T; Tulane IS. Dallas T; Oklahoma 0. Indiana 12; Nebraska 0. Georgia 48; Mississippi 13. Pensacola Pliers 0; Alabama 27 Brigham Young 12; Utah ‘. Minnesota 13; Illinois 20. Brown 28; Columbia 21. Iowa Seahawks 26; Michigan IA. Stanford 0: Notre Dame 27. Camp Grant 16; Iowa 33. Pittsburgh 6; Great Lakes 2. North Carolina 0; Fordham O. Boston College IA; Clemson T. Lebanon Valley 36; City College O. Case 24: Carnegie Tech 6. William and Mary T; Harvard T. South Carolina 0; West Virginia 13. Fort Monmouth 3; Lafayette ‘. Colgate 27; Dartmouth l9. Penn State 19; Lehigh 3. Butler O; Ohio University 6. Wayne 6; Michigan State 46. Southern California l2; Ohio State 28. Navy 0; Princeton 10. Pennsylvania 35; Yale 6. Amherst 25; Bowdoin 0. Rutgers 13; Maryland 27. Vanderbilt T; Kentucky 6. Western Maryland ‘; Boston University 0. Massachusetts State 6; Vermont 13. Bates G. Tufts O. Purdue T; Northwestern 6. Missouri g; Wisconsin IT. VMI 38; Virginia Is.

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Army leads 3–⁠2 in five meetings, counting the two since this game.