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  Imperial Valley press, November 15, 1943, page 4 (results column)

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  Sports Parade though results followed form with amazing consistency. the weekend college football show was one Of the coolest in gridiron history such a hodgepodge of absurdity and brilliance that belly laughs We’d with the cheers. A review of the eccentric eXtravaganza brings ON 4 brainstorm of freakish finishes. spectacular runs. heroic waterboys. one man teams. missing officials. automatic Safetics. police clearing the field, and alumni numbering their alma mater. TOP WHACKERO0 The Zany’s Zenith was attained at Columbus, O.. in the Ohio State Illinois game. The players went to their dressing rooms. thinking that the contest had ended in 1926 tie. They were pulled out of the showers and sent back onto the field 10 minutes later to finish the game. Ohio State had one more play. the officials ruled. because OF an off-side penalty against Illinois on the last regulation play. So. John Stungis kicked a l6-yard tleld goal to give Ohio State 1926 victory. At New York, officials had to call on soldier police to clear the field in Lewisohn stadium when elated Brooklyn College rooterS tore down the goal posts, with two minutes of Ray emaining in the game with Ci,y @cl.Cgc. Brooklyn won 1876 WHERE, OH WHERE? Officials also were in dithcr at State College, Pa, when two OF ficials had failed to arrive at game time for the Temple-Penn State encounter. Finally. a Philadelphia sports writer and a high school coach were drafted to fill in. An automobile accident had caused the delay in arrival. “WA-A-T-E-R BOY-O-Y” AS Texas rolled to its 46–⁠7 victory over Texas Christian. the winners glamoriZed their water boy, little Billy Andrews. by letting him come into the game and kick two points after touchdOWns. He felt almost as heroic as J. r. Callahan of Texas who threw two touchdown passes and scored twice on line plunges. Alma mater took a terrific humping at Ann Arbor, Mich, when Michigan’s Wolverines. assist ed by 10 former Wisconsing play ers, crushed Wisconsin, 27–⁠0, for the Badgers eighth defeat in nine starts. PASS FROM END ZONES At Philadelphia and West Point, spectators witnessed the rarity of teams attempting to pass from their own end zones. Pennsylvania at tempted the risky trick in its &c defeat by North Carolina. The ball was battCd down behind the goal line, resulting in a safety and two points for N. c. Likewise Sampson Navy tried it against Army in the fourth quarter With the score tied TT. Joe Woitkoski’s pass was partially blocked and failed to get out of the end zone, giving Army two points. CALLED BACK In the North Carolina Penn game, Bob Odell’s 50-yard touch down run was called back, and Penn was penalized five yards for a backfield man in motion. Like wise, in Colgate’s 26–⁠0 victory over r. p l., Mike Semak intercepted a Colgate pass and gall0pcd 10 yards over the goal stripe; but he was called back for holding penalty. Eddie Prokop of Georgia Tech must be using the new bomb sight He completed II passes as the Engineers dOWncd Tulane, $50

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Officially, Texas leads 65–⁠28–⁠1; as played, 62–⁠28–⁠1 in the 91 games on file; the official count covers all 94 meetings, counting the 65 since this game.