Ole Miss at Georgia Tech

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  Evening star, October 13, 1946, page 37

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  ATLANTA, Oct. 12.-Stopped on the ground at crucial moments by an alert Mississippi line, Georgia Tech struck through the air for a I24–⁠7 victory today before an estimated $4,000 in the first football meeting between the two Southeast ern Conference teams. The Jackets scored three times on passes in the first half, and after a scoreless third period drove 46 yards for final touchdown in the last period, a 20-yard aerial featuring the effort. The Rebels scored with three minutes to play on a 26-yard pass, Bobby Wilson to Everette Harder. Pass Nets Touchdown. Tech moved 80 yards for the first score, a 6-yard pass from Frank Broyles to Bob Jordan paying of after two passes. Broyles to B. Jordan for AZ yards and Broyles to George Brodnax for II, had kept the march going. In the second period, Ewell Pope, Tech guard, blocked Charles Conery’s kick on the Rebel 10 and Tech recovered on the visitors 4. Jack Bills threw fourth down pass 3 yards to Pat McHugh for the score.

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Ole Miss leads 4–⁠2 in six meetings, counting the five since this game.