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  Evening star, District of Columbia, November 21, 1943, page 27

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  Biggest Army Score Since 1913 Crushes Brown, 50 10 0 WEST POINT, N. Y, Nov. 49, 1t is an OPA regulation that nc red ration points are required fol bear steak-so Army’s footballers had their biggest banquet in sc years today. Apparently operating on the theory of feasting while the feastine is good, the well-drilled Cadet. warmed up for next weeks Navy brawl by battering the Brown Bruir for a So to triumph-the biggest score any Army team has rolled up since the 1919 outfit nosed out Villanova, go. A crowd Of some 5000 including four Navy scouts headed by Keith MolesWorth, sat in Niche Stadium and watched the dinner party. Army Scores as it Pleases. After the first few minutes, Army scored just about any time it wanted to. In fact, the Cadets hit the scoring column on nine of the Il occasions they were in possession OF the ball and had to punt only twice altogether as they rolled up Is frs downs to 2 and virtually ran the Bruins cut Of the bail park smashing their way to 443 yards on the groune against a not-Very-gra total of 3; for Brown. Army Coach Earl Blaik had hi. bench cleaned off at the finish, ane even the fourth stringers scored. Meantime, the only real threat Brown was able to cook up came ir the fourth period, against the Cadet third-stringers when Jack Cokefail spearheaded an air raid that reached the Army 5, only to be held fol downs. One of Cokefair’s pitches was completed out Of bounds beyond the end zone-and that was the closest the Bruin came to getting honey. Army’s touchdowns were split ur among seven players, with Texas Jack Minor leading the parade with three. The longest scoring run came in the final chapter when Mino, broke over his own right tackle ano tipped 80 yards. Long Drives Mark Game. Carl Anderson had an 83-yard score on a runback of an intercepted pass: Bob Dobbs went for 6l on an 0f-tackle smash and Jack Hennessey Palloped At on the business end of a forward-lateral play that travelled 81 yards altogether. The shorter shots were for and 5 yards each, by Minor on the pay off end Of SO and So yard drives, for 2 yards by George Mayon to climax 46-yard parade, for yards by Glenn Davis to top off an 88-yard steamroller and for 3 more by Bot Chabot for the final tally of the day. after “Sweet-and” Sauer, q reserve back, set it up with a 36-yarc runback of an INTERCEPTED pass.

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  Detroit evening times, Detroit, Mich, November 21, 1943, page 1

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  Cadets Swamp inferior Team From Brown WEST POINT, y. Y, Nov. 20 DPt Running UP the highest score IN recent West Point foot ball history, Army overpo~ered an inferior Brown eleven this afternoon, $50. before 5000, Scoring twice IN every period with the exception Of the fourth when the third and fourth strings raced over for three. Army had everything necessary 10 run up the highest score in the Brown series, which dates back 10 1884, Outstanding IN the parade OF tOuChdOwnS was speedy Max Minor. former University OF Texas dash champion, who featured the fourth period with a beautiful 81 yard sprint. In the second period George Maxon capped a 55-yard drive by bucking over from the !. Ed Murphy neatly booted the first OF three extra points credited 10 him in the high scoring Set-to.

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  The Nome nugget, November 22, 1943, page 6 (results column)

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  G-s l, LOOT BALL } SCORES Iowa 33, Nebraska 13. Rice 13, Texas Christian 6. Dartmouth 42, Princeton 13. Marquette 6, Great Lakes 25. Iowa Seahawks 13, Notre Dame IA. Penn State IA, Pitt 0. Purdue ?, Indiana 0. Villanova 34, Temple ‘. Rutgers 2, Lafayette g. Ohio State ‘, Michigan 45. Fort Riley 10, Camp Grant 6. Illinois 6, Northwestern 53. Duke 27, North Carolina 6. Brown 0, Army 59. Fort Riley, Kansas Centaurs 10, Camp Grant 6. (Mid-West Army football championship. Army 59, Brown 0. Notre Dame IA, Iowa Pre- Flight 13. Colgate Al, Columbia 0. Penn State IA, Pittsburgh 0 Villanova 34, Temple 2. Duke 27, North Carolina 6. Georgia 41, Clemson 6. Southwestern 2, Arkansas A. & M. 0. Texas Tech 2, Southern Metho- dist 6. Michigan 45, Ohio State 2. Minnesota 25, Wisconsin 13. Purdue 2, Indiana 0. Northwestern 53, Illinois 6. Iowa 33, Nebraska 13. Great Lakes 25. Marquette 6. Ft. Riley 10, Camp Grant 6. Kansas ‘, Missoula 6.

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Army leads 6–⁠2 in eight meetings, counting the two since this game.