Rice at Texas

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  The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, October 27, 1945, page 3 (results column)

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  TOP GpIDIR0N pR0GpAMF0R NATION TO-DAY 0udkers 10 Test Navy in Ranking East Clash Rose Bowl Choice NEW YORK, Oct. 27 - The col legiate football frolics moves into the final half today with flock of outstanding games that will have a great bearing on bowl selections, conference titles and the mythical National Championship Heading the best program of the season to date is the Navy Penn sylvania clash at Philadelphia. The big Penn Quakers, whose goal line has yet to be crossed, are ranked seventh nationally to Navy’s third and will furnish 8 true test as to whether the Middies are all they’re cracked up to be. Army, the No. l power, meets Duke at the Polo Grounds and the Cadets will be shooting for the PHO par” set up by Navy’s victory over the Blue Devils. The Cadets, remembering the 7–⁠6 half time lead the Blue Devils held over them last season, are taking no chances and will start the first team headed by the redoubtable Doc Blanchard and Speedy Glenn Davis. Out in the Midwest, three games share top billing Ohio States Buckeyes, knocked ever by Purdue last week will be aiming to do the same to the Minnesota Gophers in Big Ten fracas The unbeaten Tulsa Hurricanes. of the Missouri Valley will cross into Big Ten lines to tangle with the equally unde- feated but once- tied Indiana Hocsiers. Purdue, off last weeks performance, is favored to make it’s perfect record 60 at Northwestern’s expense. Metre Dame, the No. ? team of the country. probably will clear the bench against Iowa. A third Big Ten game matches Michigan at Illinois. Alabama’s gridders, with the tIOSe bONl III lllliiets WO4l bS ‘ssT>AAAS Georgias rebounding team lightly. The Bulldogs and Charley Trippl were surprised by Louisiana States Tigers last Saturday but Trippi has had an added week in which to work into Georgia’s plays, Unbeaten Texas will be out to increase it’s Southwest Conference holdings against Rice but the Fea- ture game in that part of the country pits Bob Fenimore and the Missouri Valley Oklahoma Aggies against Texas Christian. Another conference tilt matches Baylor and Texas A. & M. In the Rockies all-conquering Utah State puts it’s perfect record on the line against Denver and Utah faces Colorado A. & M A New Years trip to Pasadena’s S Rose Bowl may be at stake at Seattle where the once-beaten Southern California Trojans collide with Washington’s Huskies, losers only to California UCLA kept in the running for the Pasadena prize bv stopping Oregon 12–⁠0 last night.

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Texas leads 75–⁠21–⁠1 in 97 meetings, counting the 65 since this game.