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  Evening star, November 26, 1943, page 16

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  Footballs Final Card Co|orful; Big Crowds Al Holiday Games NEW YORK, Nov. 26-Football’s second wartime season closes in appropriate martial surroundings tomorrow with the servicemen privilegged to enjoy two of the years best bets almost without civilian at tendance. ~ With a few bowl-bound exceptions, teams that didn’t close yesterday will store the moleskins for the winter after the week end When the Army and Navy meet for the Eastern championship, the only folks present will be Military Academy cadets and the gentry living within 10 miles Of West Point. The Sailors of the Great Lakes Naval Training Station will be the only spectators when the Notre Dame Irishmen try to hurdle their 10th and ANAL obstacle to q ma tional title. 6o,oo0 See Penn Top Cornell. There wasn’t any ban on crowds THANKSGIVING Day when Philadel- / phia turned out 10000 to watch Penn outscramble Cornell, 20-l4. IThirty-two thousand watched Texas qualify for a Cotton Bowl bid and the Southwest crown by whipping Texas Aggies, 27–⁠13. The losers earned an Orange Bowl date with L. s. U. When Colgate stopped Brown. 21–⁠14, on a blocked punt that bounced “a yards for touchdown. 10, 900 were present. A like number saw Bucknell ruin Franklin and Marshall’s perfect season, 2l-13. Tulsa drew IS 900 as the Hurricane lSee FOOTBALL, page A-11l

Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The text is the machine reading of the page, mistakes and all.

Officially, Texas leads 78–⁠37–⁠5; as played, 71–⁠37–⁠5 in the 113 games on file; the official count covers all 120 meetings, counting the 70 since this game.