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  Evening star, District of Columbia, September 27, 1943, page 20 (results column)

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  NEW YORK, Sept. 27.-Not only will Saturdays two big football games-Notre Dame VS.. Georgia Tech and Michigan VS.. Northwestern include four of the country’s best teams, but the turf at South Bend and Evanston will be torn up by some of the outstanding players of the young season. Notre Dame has its Angelo Bertelli and Julius Rykovic in the back field and Capt. Pat Filley, watch charm guard who is stronger than boiled coffee. The Atlanta Engineers counter with Eddie Prokop, who broke away on an 80-yard touch down run last Saturday, and Center George Manning, plus George Steber, Vanderbilt great at guard last season, but now at Tech. Northwestern’s offense is geared to Otto Graham, a student for another season as Navy trainee, while Mich igan’s Coach Fritz Crisler dons dark glasses every time he scans his roster. Elroy tCrazy Legs Hrisch Of Wisconsin and Bill Daley of Minnesota are two of his ball car riers and his line is a combination Of the Wolverine and Badger walls Of 1912. All Four Victorious. All four of the clubs won last Saturday, three of them spectacularly and Northwestern hating weak Indiana eleven, IA to 6. Mich igan saw its all-star outfit romp to 57-to-6 verdict over Western Mich igan and Notre Dame made Pitt Coach Clark Shaughnessy sorry he revived the T-formation, Al to O.. Georgia Tech, pregame underdog, mastered North Carolina, 20–⁠7. But all the Al talent won’t be confined to those two gridirons Saturday. Army unties Glenn Davis in its second home game for the benefit of Colgate and Mike Micka, a combinaton that spilled Rochester Saturday, 7 to 0. The Cadets tanned the Villa nova Wildcats, 27 to 0, in their debut. Columbia opens it’s campaign against Princeton, Altos cropper to surprising Penn squad Saturday. The Quakers next entertain Yale. Navy Takes on Cornell. Navy verified every suspicion by blanking North Carolina Preflight, 81 to 0, and next tackles a Cornell team that was good enough to conquer Sampson IN. “ Naval, 27 to 13 A Duke team that romped over Richmond, 81 to 0, last week end and now has counted 101 points to none for its two opponents, enter tains the Prefighters this Saturday. North Carolina’s huge squad is preparing for Penn State in one of the few intersectional games of the year. What would have been a breather in any other year shapes up as one of the Southwest’s best games Saturday, with Texas, shorn of many OF its own stars but aided by naval u duleeS, looG W OouIllWeSGeIn Onlversity, which inherited the Long horns of 1912. Southwestern, which had preWar enrolment of 416, has a football team this year that wal loped its first two foes by a COM bined score of IA to O.. Louisiana State, which defeated Georgia, “a to 27, turns Steve Van Buren, loose against Rice. which fell before Glen Dobbs’ Randolph Field Flyers, 6 to 0, in its opener. Stage AH-Civilian Duel. The Midwest presents 1943 rarity an all-civilian duel, at Iowa city with | the Hawkeyes, losers by 81 to 7 at ) Great Lakes, playing Wisconsin, de-

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Colgate leads 17–⁠3 in 20 meetings, counting the three since this game.