Minnesota at Illinois

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  Imperial Valley press, October 12, 1942, page 4

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  MINNESOTA LOSES MYTHICAL CROWN AFTER End Loss NEW YORK, Oct 12.-UPD- The hunt was on today for a new collegiate football king after mighty Minnesota’s second straight defeat. The Golden Gophers lost little of their Simon-pure prestige after a defeat by Bernie Bierman’s power packed Iowa pre-light eleven. But the bubble burst Saturday when Illinois-convinced by the SeahaWk eXample-mauled Minnesota, 20–⁠13 Every section of the nation i’m mediately came up with candidates for the mythical title and the South seemed to hold the edge on all American power and polish. Head ing the list below the Mason Dixon line is Alabama’s Crimson Tide. followed by Georgia, Vanderbilt Georgia Tech and TC.U. The mid west banked on Ohio State and Il linois while the far west had Wash ington State and Santa Clara. In the east it was Colgate, Army, Brown. Georgetown and Boston College But no matter which team makes the mythical crown, the real king of the college gridiron’ apparent ly will be Biermal S SeahaWks. They continued their crushing advance with 26–⁠14 win over Michigan after previous triumphs over two other Big Ten teams, North western and Minnesota. Illinois, by downing Minnesota, shared upset hcnors with Purdue, the Boilermakers edged out North western, 7–⁠6, in another conference battle Other surprises included Princetons 100 win over Navy; Corpus Christi Naval stations 1877 victory over Texas Aggies and UCL.A.’s 30–⁠7 pounding of Ore gon States defending Pacific Coast conference champions

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

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  Grid Season IsJigsaw for Nation Freshmen Hold First Tenn Bsrths; Service Squods New Problem NEW YORK, Oct. IL R- With Freshmen holding first team berths and strangers hold ing coaching jobs, it’s little won der that this unprecedented war time football season, rapidly appreaching the halfway mark, has the fans holding their heads. Chopped up like a jigsaw puzzle, because of the presence of service teams, the campaign ell ready has produced more SUI prises than a Christmas stock ing, but others aren’t far away. Those who appreciate action in carload lots will have to wait no longer than the coming week. end for more of the same. If the season has proved notning else, it has shown that the Navy can produce teams from among its pre-flight trainees that are better than the best co!leglate squads, but even this convincing demonstration may strike a snag before another week. HAWKS FACE TEST Lieut.. Col. Bernie Bierman’s Iowa Seahawks, whose 26–⁠14 victory over Michigan last week added the Wolverines to a list of victims that already included Northwestern and Minnesota, are due for another stern test Saturday against a Notre Dame team that finally has found it. self. With accurate Angelo Bertelli passing to all four touch downs, the Irish whipped STAN ford last Saturday, 80. Illinois, fresh from its surprising 20–⁠13 triumph over Mime sofa, stakes its clean record against Iowa in another mid western headliner and Wisconsin, 17–⁠9 conqueror Of Missouri, meets Great Lakes Naval. 9 Ohio State, 1912 victor over Southern California, meets Purdue, which tripped Northwest ern, 7–⁠6. Michigan and North western collide in another Big Ten game. One of the East’s principal at fractions will find Pennsylvania, which walloped Yale, 1915, humping into Princeton, the team that surprised Navy, 100. Other ivy-clad struggles will match Yale against Navy and Harvard, tied TT by William and Mary, against Dartmouth. Jim Crowley’s North Carolina pre-flighters travel to Boston College; Colgate, conqueror of Dartmouth Saturday, has an in tersectional date with Duke, and Pitt entertains an Indiana team that shut out Nebraska, 1910. Additional eastern features will send Army against Columbia, Cornell against Penn State, and Holy Cross against Syracuse.

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  Detroit evening times, Detroit, Mich, October 12, 1942, page 1 (results column)

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  Michig a n, Northwestern and Minnesota. the big three of Mid western football. all took ii on the chin Saturday, proving once more that football selecting is almost as hazardous as picking race horses. You might have guessed that Michigan’s lack of reserves would beat them against so powerful a foe as the Iowa Preflight Cadets but few wagered their nickels on Illinois over Minnesota or Purdue over Northwestern. But that’s the way it happened. The weekend roundup in brief: AMONG THE NATIONS BEST TEAMS-Ohio State, loser only once last year, trounced powerful Southern California eleven. 28–⁠12. Illinois. rallying under its new coach, Ray Eliot, turned back Min nesota. 20–⁠13. the first college team to beat the Golden Gophers of the North in several years. Wis consin. getting a littl defensive strength TO help its powerful attack, whipped a YER good Missouri, eleven, 17–⁠9. Santa Clara added California TO its list by winning, 7–⁠6. WOLVERINES STOPPED FIRST DEFEATS-Michigan by Iowa Preflight Cadets, 26–⁠14; Missouri, by Wisconsin; Texas A. and M. by Corpus Christi Naval Air Station, 1871 FIRST VICTORY-Notre Dame with Angelo Bertelli in fine form trounced Stanford. 27–⁠0. BIGGEST CROWD – International football game between Eng land and Scotland drew $4,000 at Wembley Stadium, London. 1t was a scoreless draw. SCORING BEES-M | h 6 n State 46, Wayne 6; Georgia as, Mississippi 13; u. c. L. A. 30, Oregon State, 1912 Rose Bowl champions, z; Pennsylvania 35, Yale 6: Miami So. Kent State Z; Army %. Cornell 8; Brown %,

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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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Minnesota leads 41–⁠33–⁠3 in 77 meetings, counting the 60 since this game.