VMI at Georgia

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  Evening star, District of Columbia, November 15, 1943, page 11

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  Georgia Tech Holds Inside Title Track; State Rivals Face ATLANTA, Nov 15.-Georgia Techs Rambling Wreck today had the inside track to the unoficial Southeastern Conference football championship as the war-dimmed conference spotlight shifted to in trastate rivalries for the remaining two weeks of scheduled play. Techs conference slate still was clean-and plenty impressive as resuit Of conference win No. 2, a 800 triumph engineered over Tulane Saturday by Eddie Prokop, the big passing wizard. Georgia Is Slight Threat. Only Georgia’s high-scoring but youthful Bulldogs have the opportunity of spelling their traditional rivals record. It’s an outside chance despite their dashing 46–⁠7 win over Virginia Military Institute here Saturday. At least share in the present second-place standing of Louisiana States Bengals will be at stake Saturday at New Orleans, where they face Tulane in the scheduled finals for both teams. Louisiana States conference rec ord to date shows two wins over Georgia and sound beating at the hands of Tech, its record for the season, five victories and two defeats. The Tulane Green Wave, which made its conference debut against Tech, has won twice and dropped three decisions turing the season. The Bengals were idle last week. All-Georgia Game November 27. The all-Georgia battle is scheduled here November q. In the meantime. the Bulldogs, will rest and the busy Yellow Jackets will entertain Clemson here Saturday in an attempt to make their record read six wins and three defeats. which on paper would be identical with Georgia’s. Vanderbilt’s pickup team was idle last week. The Alabama informals downed Marion Institute Friday night, 81 to IL. Neither team is COM peting against conference oppositon

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Georgia leads 4–⁠0 in four meetings, counting the three since this game.