Temple at Tennessee

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  Evening star, November 19, 1944, page 18

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  Bowl Chances Of Vols Helped by 27-to-14 Defeat Of Temple KNOXVILLE, Tenn, Nov. 49, Unbeaten Tennessee gave its bowl chances another shove forward today, coming from behind in the last quarter to defeat Temple, 27–⁠14 Getting of to a slow start, the Vols were trailing, 12–⁠14, when they turned on the steam in the final period to outdazzle Ray Morrison’s s Owls with two touchdowns and a safety. The Vols Buster Stephens, a FRESHMAN. led the parade of the day with three markers, running his totai for the season to 54. Tennessee scored in the first six minutes OF play, but the try for the point failed and Temple held 7–⁠6 lead at half time. They matched third-quarter scores, but the Vols again failed on the extra point.

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  The Wilmington morning star, Wilmington, N.C., November 20, 1944, page 3 (results column)

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  Navy Gets Nod Over Army DESPITE Penn Yardstick NEW YORK, Nov. l9.-ReAr- MY trounced Pennsylvania 81 to z en- Saturday as compared with Nays $50 victory over the Quakers three weeks ago, but We’ll string along with the Middies to topple the unbeaten and united West Pointers in their coming Rational championship” clash at Baltimore December 2. The Cadets are blessed with a horde of fast-hreaking backs who are gone” once they get through The line Of scrimmage, but it remains to be seen whether they can breeze past Nays stout forward wall that has been poison to all opponents. For about 10 minutes in the Penn game it looked like the old Frank Er field jinx again was working against Army. Penn had driven to the Army u, lost the ball on downs yielded a touchdown on Max Mi nors 66-yard sprint, but had bounced back to tie the score at ~ Then came the deluge as the Cadets piled up the biggest score in the history of Franklin field and more than atoned for the worst lacing an Army club ever suffered the 1870 licking Penn inflicted in 1910. While the rout was on at Philadelphia, Navy put Purdue through the hoops, 30 to 0. at Baltimore. It vas the Middies’ fourth straight win and demonstrated once more that they are a November” club, team that usually gets off to slew start and finishes strong. The nations other top elevens, Randolph Field, Iowa Seahawks, Georgia Tech, Duke, Southern Cali forn!a. Second Air Force, Yale, and Notre Dame, all racked up trlumphs. Georgia Tech alone was lCfced to the utmost before nick Ms Louisian State in night game IA to 6. The big upset of the afternoon vas Aabama’s 10 to 0 triumph over previously unbeaten and I’M lied Mississippi State. Syracuse likewise pulled a sumner in swamp ing Colgate, 43 to 10. as did the .exas Aggies in beating Rice; 49, . Southern Methodist in defeating ARKANSAS, 20-l2 and Texas Chris uan In Nipping Texas, rs. Georgia walloped Auburn, 49–⁠13, IN an eyelifter while weak Dart mouth just missed upsetting Cor rcll’ l4-i3. Underdog Temple led tennessee for three quarters in an h’efsectlon fray at Knoxville but lost IN the fina! period, 27–⁠14. oklahoma socked Kansas, 200, “ Virtually clinch the Big Six conference. Iowa State and Depauw spolled brakes and Miami’s per. .ecl records. Iowa State beat Drake w eu while ‘Derauw downed the 0hioans, 1877. olher outstanding games this week, other than Ohio State–Michi. Syan’ include Cornell-Penn, Virfinia. M ,se Camp Feary-Brainbridge, minnesota Wisconsin, Oklahoma

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Tennessee leads 2–⁠0 in two meetings, counting the one since this game.