Fort Knox at Indiana

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  Imperial Valley press, California, September 18, 1944, page 4

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  College Football Enters Arena By CARL LUNDQUIST fledgling football season reaches full stature this week end with big time teams the nation over squaring off against each other in the earliest complete slate of jor college games on record. Encroaching into the baseball season, the Saturday program provides games involving conference title hopes in the Big Ten, the Pa cific Coast the Southern and Southeastern loops. BIG TEN STANDS OUT On the basis of the way they ran over opening-day opponents for touchdownS last Saturday this weeks top game is likely to be the Big Ten conference opener between Illinois and Indiana, although neither has been touted as a likely champion. Illinois defeated illinois Normal. 10 to 0. while Indiana ran over Fort Knox, 72 to 0. Purdue’S Boilermakers, only ma jor college team tC go unbeaten and united last season, are underdogS in their first test Saturday when they play against Great Lakes Naval station. Great Lakes won its opener in grand manner, beating Fort Sheridan, 81 TO 0. Down in the corn pone country the Kentucky Wildcats open against Mississippi in the first Southeastern conference game. VII e in the Southern conference Dukes report edlv powerful Blue Devils play Rich mond and Wake Forest meets North Carolina. Clemson’s Tigers pl a Y Presbyterian, Virginia’s Cavaliers meet Hampden-Sydney and North Carolina State opposes Milligan. on SOUTHWEST RIM The Kansas Jayhawkers, slated to have a strong team after years OF ineptness. oppose Texas Christian at neutral Kansas City, Mo, in an intersectional tilt. Tulsa’s Golden Hurricane meets North Texas Agriculture and Oklahoma A. and M. is matched with West Texas State in Missouri valley area games. The Texas A and M. Cowboys meet Bryan Air Field and Texas Tech opposes Lubbock A. A. F. in southwestern games. Two Rocky Mountain area service teams that are touted as strong play the only games in that sector, the Fort Warren. Wyoming, eleven meeting Colorado and the Second Air Force bombers oppose Whitman of Idaho. Southern California opens detense of its Pacific Coast confer ence title against U. c. L. A. in the top game in the west. College of Pacific is scheduled against st. Mary’s Pre-flight, st. Marys against California and Washington against Willamette.

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  Evening star, September 17, 1944, page 20

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  Indiono’s 72–⁠0 Win Over Fort Knox Sets Mark BLOOMINGTON, Ind, Sept. IS passes and ground power into an attack that scored virtually at will, Indiana’s all-civilian Hoosiers launched their 1914 football season by crushing a veteran Fort Knox Armoraider eleven, u to 0. The Hoosier total, amassed by way of six touchdowns on ground plays and five via the aerial routA shattered the 54-point Memorial Stadium scoring record set by the 1912 Indiana juggernaut against

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Indiana leads 2–⁠0 in two meetings.