Merchant Marine at Villanova

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  Evening star, District of Columbia, September 20, 1946, page 15

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  1aIent-FiIIed Schools Out 10 ShaHer Reign OF Service Teams Many of the Nations collegiate football teams, including some Of the championship favorites, raise the curtain tomorrow on a season destined to surpass all of its predecessors in the matter of interest excitement and quality of play as we’ll as receipts at the gate. There is hardly a team in the land that isn’t admittedly loaded to the locker room with playing talent and preseason. ticket sales in dicate that the fans are going tc turn out in record numbers to see the fun. | This is the season when the teams which have watched Army and Navy monopolize the spotlight in recent years can be expected tc begin chopping the service academieS down to their own size-a task made simpler by the departure OF some players who no longer want to mix football with a military career. Army, still the top team of the country until proved otherwise cracks open its tough schedule this week end, as do trio of West Points most serious challengers for national honors-Alabama, Illinois and Oklahoma A. and M. Army Takes on Villanova. The Cadets will begin their search for a third straight all-victorious season tomorrow afternoon by entertaining tough Villanova team which stole march on most of the others last week by knocking off the United States Merchant Marine Academy, 40–⁠6 Illinois, reinforced by the return of Buddy Young and a benchful of other service stars, will provide the first test for Wes Fesler at Pitts burgh in game setting the stage for next months anticipated thrill er between the Illini and Notre Dame. Oklahoma A. and MS Sugar Bowl champions, candidates for a Rose Bowl bid as long as they have Bob Fenimore, go after their 10th straight triumph against Denvers invading Big Seven titleholders, while Alabama. Rose Bowl victor and Southeastern favorite, meets Furman at Birmingham tonight. At Austin. Tex, Texas Universitys Southwest Conference favorites run smack into a Missouri outfit that has been tabled as the best in the Big Six loop. Another contest in volving title threats from the same two leagues sends Texas Christian into Kansas City to battle Kansas at night Ole Miss Battles Kentucky. Mississippi and Kentucky, both in the process of rebuilding, get together at Lexington tomorrow night in the first Southeastern Conference game of the year. Other pairings in the South find Presbyterian at Clemson, Erskine at Davidson, Ran dolph-Macon at Richmond and CataWby at V. M l. Besides Illinois, four other teams from the Big Nine open against non conference opponents, all at home. These starters send Cincinnati to Indiana, North Dakota State to Iowa, Marquette to Wisconsin and Miami of Ohio to Purdue. Three other Southwest Conference teams also entertain nonleague OPP position, with North Texas State at Texas A. and NJ, Southwestern of Texas at Baylor and Northwest Louisiana State at Arkansas. Other top games in the wide open spaces will find Tulsa at Wichita, Arizona State at New Mexico and West Texas at Texas Tech tomorrow night Iowa State of the Big Six meets Colorado of the Big Seven at Boulder, while Colorado State will be at Wyoming and Peru State at Colorado College. In the East, Lehigh will be at Kings Point and Otterbein at West Virginia to round out a rather skinny lineup. The Far West will delay its gen. eral opening, although st. Marys tangles with Portland at San Fran cisco on SUNDAY.

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  The Wilmington morning star, North Carolina, September 15, 1946, page 1

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  Vilanoua Wins VILLANOVA, Pa, Sept. 14-U.D- Vilbanova college, tuning up fol it’s big football engagement with Army at Wes+ Point next week threw a crew of fleet backs a the Kings Point Merchant Marine academy today to delight an open. ing-game crowd of II, 900 with 40 to 6 victory. Long runs by Halfbacks Romeo Capriotti and Joe Rogers, both Philadelphians, and Bill Zehler, Ridley Park, Pa, highlighted 9 game dominated all the way by Villanova.

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