Holy Cross at Dartmouth

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  The daily monitor leader, Mount Clemens, Mich., October 6, 1944, page 12

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  NEW YORK, Oct. 6 Up His pigskin prognosticating percentage upset by last weeks up sets, Boss Orlo Robertson shuns gridiron guessing this week TO attend the World Series while turning over to us his chore OF putting the finger on the foot ball favorites. After running into IL losses and five ties against 81 correct selections last weekend, Robert son headed west with: I’m picking ST. Louis to win the series. They can’t upset me on that” Here’s how they look from here: Tulane-Notre Dame – May be someone will stop Bob Kelly and the rest Of the Irish, but not this week. Notre Dame. Duke-North Carolina Navy The Blue Devils on the rebound after Saturdays upset by Penn. Duke. Iowa Seahawks Second Air Force – Our neck is out, but we’ll take the Air Force to make il six straight wins. Tennessee–Mississippi – The Vols, comfortably. Tennessee. Dartmouth Pennsylvania – Those Penn freshman backs and that 202-pound line look good, but Dartmouth gets the nod hesitant one. Holy Cross Temple (Friday) - Rated off its 6–⁠6 tie with Dartmouth, it looks like-Holy Cross. Texas Christian Arkansas – No one has scored on the Horn cd Frogs yet, and that’s good enough for us. Teyas Christian. Washington Villa m ct e – Washington beat Willamette II to 0 in the opening game, so you guess this one. Kansas at Tulsa – It’s no guess. Tulsa. Great Lakes-NorthWestern - 1t. Paul Brown, Great Lakes coach, didn’t like that tie with

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  Evening star, October 1, 1944, page 19

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  Green, Holy Cross Tie With Posses HANOVER, N. H., Sept, 3d. Striking through the air. Dart mouth and Holy Cross. both of unknown football quantities, today battled to a 6–⁠6 deadlock before an 5000 crowd. Dartmouth clicked with a As yard overhead in the third period and the Crusaders stormed back early in the fourth to square mat ters with an 18-yard heave. The Green had an unfortunate setback in the second period when q Tipping penalty wiped out Ted Youngling’s 85-yard dash into the Holy Cross end zone.

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  The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, October 2, 1944, page 4

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  scurry for a triumph such as Southern California’s verdict over College of the Pacific. Yales late touchdown defeated the Coast Guard Academy. 7–⁠3. Catawaba’s 7–⁠6 win over Virginia Military Academy was shocker. Wichita deadlocked Kansas State 6–⁠6. Holy Cross drew the same score as Dartmouth, 6–⁠6. Middies DOwned Much of the excitement was caused by the freshmen, although at Annapolis it was the exploits of Otto Graham, former North western All-American, who almost singlehanded downed the Middies

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Dartmouth leads 31–⁠25–⁠4 in 60 meetings, counting the 50 since this game.