Wake Forest at Tennessee

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  The Wilmington morning star, North Carolina, October 1, 1945, page 5 (results column)

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  HIGH SCORES MARK OPENING OF GRID SEASON in NATION Army, Wake Forest To Battle Saturday In One OF Top Games NEW YORK, Sept. 80. - Up – They took the wraps off the big Name” College Football teams yes terday and off the results of the first big Saturday afternoon of the season, the National Grid picture Jocks something like this: East-Army and Navy with Penn sylvania a dark horse” New England-Yale, Holy Cross and Dartmouth. Midwest-Ohio State, Minnesota, Michigan, Notre Dame with Indiana and Northwestern up close. South – Duke, North Carolina, Wake Forest, Virginia. Southeast-Georgia Tech, Tenn essee, Louisiana State. Southwest-Uncertain, but indi. cations point to Southern Methodist, Texas and Texas Christian. Big Six-Oklahoma and Iowa State. Missouri Valley-Tulsa and the Oklahoma Aggies. Big Seven-Colorado University. Pacific Coast-Southern Calfor. mia and Washington. Taking up where they left off a year ago the mighty West Point Cadets chalked up their 10th straight victory with 32–⁠0 thumping of the Army Air Force Per sonnel Distribution Command, of Louisville. All-America Glenn Da- Wis, the nations highest scorer a year ago, scored two of the five touchdowns and passed to Doc Blanchard for a third. Counting last year the Cadets now have rolled up 536 points in 10 games against a mere IS for their opponents. This week they enter. tain Wake Forest in one of the top games of the nation. Wake Forest lost a tough 7 to 6 decision to Tennessee at Knoxville yesterday. Navy, too, showed great power in swamping Villanova, 49 to 0, While Pennsylvania swamped Brown, so to- 0, before $1,000 at Philadelphia. The Quakers this year have ample reserves and may prove stumbling block to both Army and Navy later in the season. This week the Middies invade the South to battle Duke at Durham in a top intersectional fray. Duke rolled up a 76–⁠0 score on Bogue Field Saturday in a warmup. Penn takes on Dartmouth in an attractive contest at Philadelphia. The Hanover Indians lost to Holy Cross, 13 to 6, yesterday but only after getting off to a bad start.

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Tennessee leads 6–⁠1 in seven meetings, counting the five since this game.