Oklahoma at Tulsa

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  Evening star, October 18, 1943, page 17 (results column)

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  Georgia a Tech, Pacific, Michigan Will Make Foes Prove Class AoSoSldteu freSS SpOTIb writer. NEW YORK, Oct. 18-Just how good are Navy, Minnesota and Southern California? Their games this week against Georgia Tech, Michigan and College of the Pa cific should give the answer and help clarity the college football pic ture. The Midshipmen, Gophers and Trojans are among the Nations l6 unbeaten and united teams, but whether they rank with such rec cGnlzed JuggernautS as Notre Dame Army, Purdue and Pennsylvania still is debated in some quarters. Their games shape up as the best three in the country since the Irish. Cadets, BoilermakerS and QuakerS again take the field against opponents who do rot rate in their class. Navy, with Notre Dame lurking around the corner on October 30. faces a real test in Georgia Tech. Notre Dame is the only team that has beaten the Engineers. That was 55-l3 Walloping. If the Navy. after taking Duke and Penn State on successive Saturdays. duplicates the Irish feat. the Middies will be deserving OF the most flowery adjectiveS. Minnesota Is on Spot. Minnesota. too, is on the SPOT in Its battle with Michigan for the lit tie brown jug. Like Georgia Tech Michigan has lost only one game that to Notre Dame, 35–⁠12. Idle last week, the Wolverines will be out TO redeem themselves as we’ll as end their Gopher jinX. Minnesota has beaten Michigan nine years in row. Southern California hasn’t Welded a point in four games, but the Tro- JAMS tangle with an inspired College OF the Pacific outfit that may shat ter their dreams of perfect season. 1t will be battle of unbeaten teams since Pacific. coached by 81-year-old A. A. Stagg, ST., upset the Del Monte Preflght eleven, 1917. last SATURDAY.. Otherwise Saturdays games went pretty much as expected although Penn State battled Navy even for three quarters before losing. 1916, and Ohio State threw a scare into Purdue by holding a 10 lead for more than 30 minutes. Final score: Purdue, 30: Ohio State. 7. Okla homa and Missouri also scared Tulsa and the Iowa SeahaWks. but each yielded two touchdowns in the last quarter and lost, 20–⁠6 and 21–⁠6, respectively. Workouts for Top Teams. Most Of the other leading teams merely had a good workout. Notre Dame crushed Wisconsin. 500: Army, held to 1870 at half time. went on to wallop Columbia. $40; Pennsylvania rolled up its biggest score in years in trouncing Lake hurst Naval. 74–⁠6. and Southern California smashed San Francisco, $40. Duke, on the rebound from its one-point Navy setback. defeated North Carolina. l4–⁠7. while the Texas Aggies beat Texas Christian, 1870, in a game that was expected to produce the eventual winner of the Southwest Conference. Cornell. beaten only by Navy, afforded mild surprise by whipping Holy Cross by two touchdownS, 2O-7: while Minnesota doWned Camp Grant, 1877; Northwestern beat Great Lakes, 1870: California defeated U. C. L. A, 1870. and Illinois outscored Pitt in furry of touch downs. 1926. In other games, Texas beat Arkansas, $40: South ern Methodist took Rice, 1910: Rochester humbled Colgate, l4–⁠6, and Villanova rushed over a last period siX-pointer to defeat Buck nell, 1913. Other Games This Week. Games carded this week, other than NavyGeorgia Tech. Mime sofa Michigan and U. S. C.-Pacific. include: East: Colgate Cornell. Penn-Columbia, Army and Penn State Maryland. Midwest: Notre Damc-Illinois, Wisconsin Indiana, Iowa Purdue. Notwithstanding State, Camp Grant-Fort Riley and Kansas-Nebraska. Southwest: Southern Methodist Tulane, Texas Christian Oklahoma Aggies, Southwestern louisiana Southwestern Texas, Utah-Tulsa. Texas Aggies-North Texas Aggics. South: Louisiana State Georgia Georgia North Carolina Prefllght, Wake Forest Virginia Military. Pacific Coast: Washington March Field, California–St. Marys Prefight.

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Oklahoma leads 21–⁠7–⁠1 in 29 meetings, counting the 16 since this game.