North Carolina at Georgia Tech

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  Detroit evening times, Detroit, Mich, September 26, 1943, page 1

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  eight touChdowns against III, visitors. ATLANTA, Ga.-Eddie ProkOp, sophomore at Georgia Tech last year, came back to the football wars a. Navy VIZ student and led the Yellow Jackets TO a 20–⁠7 triumph over the North Carolina Tarheels. One Of Prokop’s two touchdowns came on an 80-Nard dash In the final quarter. NORMAN. OKLA young and Oklahoma football

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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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  The daily monitor leader, Mount Clemens, Mich., October 1, 1943, page 10 (results column)

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  Notre Dame, Michigan, Southern Cal. are Choices as Combined Operations Ventures Collide in College Football NEW YORK, Oct. - Col leges blessed by the Navy and putting combined operations ventures on the field 49, with sailors, marines and civilians participating – have had things pretty much their own way in the early going. What will hap pen when they clash? Well, well find out Saturday afternoon when Georgia Tech invades Notre Dame, Michigan tackles Northwestern al Evans ton and Southern California deploys against California at Berkeley. Georgia Techs 20–⁠7 victory over North Carolina was vastly more impressive than Notre Danes 41–⁠0 runaway against undermined Pittsburgh, yet lean 10 the Irish IN South Bend, even though the Engineers open with strapping fullback named Scharfschwerdt. Frank Leahy and the Notre Dame varsity are smarting for revenge. The Rambling Wreck was a neat package a year ago, too, but caught the lads of the Golden Dome before Leahy had Smoothed out the wrinkles of the newly adopted T. Michigan’s steamroller bumps into stern competition for the first time in Northwestern, which – the phenomenal Otto Graham cracker and all-hasn { enough TO check 1t California did not sd w enough against the Saint Mary S freshmen to warrant picking the Bears over Southern California Cornell has the manpoWer and Carl Snavely the Well-conceived plays, but Navy isn’t being trifled with this fall, so it’s the Middies in a night game in Bal timore. Capable Colgate shaded for midable Rochester on passes, but this week it’s the Army. Mr.. Jones. Pennsylvania should get over Yale, Columbia over Princeton. Holy Cross over Brown, and Bucknell over Muhlenberg. Purdue has altogether tomuch for Illinois peagreens in the initial Battle for the Cam non, which goes for Minnesota against Nebraska and Wisconsin against Iowa. | look for Ohio States kids, who made such a fine stand against the Iowa Pre- Flight professionals, to hurdle Missouri club which made an excellent showing against Min nesota. Oklahoma is given a shaky vote over Oklahoma A. e. M. North Cardinals Tarheels are

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Officially, Georgia Tech leads 34–⁠21–⁠3; as played, 34–⁠22–⁠3 in 59 meetings, counting the 47 since this game.