Utah at Denver

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  The Wilmington morning star, North Carolina, October 21, 1946, page 1 (results column)

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  TwelveTeams Undefeated At Half Mark Thirteen Squads Clipped From List In Week. End Contests ARMY LEADS North Carolina State Is Listed Among Pigskin Leaders In Nation the world series just out of the way it’s hard to realize that the Collegiate grid campaign already is at the halfway mark and that the list of major unbeaten teams is simmer than Ted Williams series batting average. Only IL elevens have managed to go unconquered SO far although three of the dozen have ties to mar their records. Another 10 were clipped for the first time over the past weekend as the biggest series of upsets of the season shook the football seismograph. Heading the pigskin parade with perfect performances are Army, Notre Dame, Pennsylvania, Harward, Texas, Tennessee, Georgia, North Carolina, Oregon and North western. Army’s grid goliaths knocked Columbia’s light Lions out of the select class with a resounding 48–⁠14 triumph IS Doc Blanchard and Gem Davis paced the Cadets to their fifth triumph of the campaign and their 23rd over two and a half seasons. Notre Dame was idle but Penn sylvania blasted Virginia 400 for the Cavaliers first licking of 1916. Harvard slaughtered Coast Guard $50; Texas opened its Southwest Conference schedule with a 200 win over Arkansas foc the Razor backs initial loss; Tennessee sent its Rose Bowl hopes soaring with a 1910 conquest of the hitherto I’M beaten Alabama Red Elephants in a Southeastern Conference tilt; Georgia polished off Oklahoma A. & NJ, 1918; North Carolina State gave Wake Forest it’s first taste Of defeat with a 1916 Southern Conference victory; U. c. L. A. held onto their Rose Bowl edge with a 1876 squeeze over California. North Cardinals improving Tar Heels gave Navy another dose. of defeat, Ella; Oregon’s perfect mark was blasted by Washington State which managed to grab an 90 tie; and NorthWestern’s u~nheralded Wildcats claWed out a 14–⁠14 dead lock with mighty Michigan. Detroit destroyed Tulsa’s dreams of an all-conquering campaign Fri day night with a 2O-l4 upset and Penn State, Auburn, Louisiana State, Vanderbilt, Kansas, Rich mond and Utah also licked the wounds of their initial defeats. Michigan State staged a rousing rally to whip Penn State 1916; Tulane smashed. Auburn 800; Georgia Tech ambushed L. S. u, 21–⁠7; Kentucky’s r%ejuvenated Wild cats clawed Vanderbilt 1917; Ne braska nosed out Kansas 1914; Duke walloped Richmond 41–⁠0; and Denver rocked Rocky Mountain form by vanquishing Utah, 20–⁠14. On the basis of the point adds laid down by the none too generous ~hookmakers, other surprises OF Saturday included Browns 20–⁠1a Ivy League win over Dartmouth; Little Louisiana Techs rs victory over Mississippi; Iowa’s 1870 Big Nine banking of Indiana; SYRIA cuse’s 21–⁠12 triumph over Holy ICross; Cornelrs 6–⁠6 deadlock with Yale in another Ivy engagement and Purdue’s 14–⁠14 tie with Ohio State. The leaders by sections: East-Army, Pennsylvania. South-Tennessee, Georgia, North Carolina, North Carolina State and Alabama. SouthWest-Texas. MidWest-Notre Dame, North. western, Michigan and Oklahoma. Far West-U. c. L. A. Next weeks schedule is topped by Dukes tilt with Army at New York; Notre Dame at Iowa; Illinois at Michigan; Navy at Pennsyl. vania; Wake Forest at Tennessee; Texas at Rice, Santa Clara at U. c. |. A.. and Southern California al Stanford. Other major games for Satu-cay include: East Cornell at Princeton; Coast Guard at Yale; Columbia al Dartmouth; Holy Cross at Har’ ward; Syracuse at West Virginia Boston U. at Brown; George Wash :ngton at Rutgers; Purdue at Pitts burgh. South – Georgia at Furman; Florida at North Carolina; N. c State at V. P. l.; Richmond a l VIZ shington and Lee; William ant Mary at Virginia Military; Ken lucky at Alabama; Auburn a Georgia Tech; L. S. U. at Wander bilt; Mississippi State at Tulane and Arkansas at Mississippi. Southwest – Texas A. & M. a Baylor; Denver at Texas Tech. E Midwest – Indiana at Nebraska

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  The Daily Alaska empire, October 19, 1946, page 3 (results column)

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  THREE BIG GAMES ARE ON TODAY NEW YORK, Oct. 19.-With the baseball season finally completed, football takes over the country’s sport pages today with the spot light shining on the Tennessee Alabama clash, the Texas -Arkan- sas meeting and the Army Colum- bia battle. The Crimson Tide and the Vol unteers, both unbeaten, meet at Knoxville with the winner anti cipating little difficulty the rest of the way in winning the Southeast ern Conference title and a possible Bowl invitation. The West Point Cadets take on Lou Little’s unbeaten Lions at Michie Stadium in attempting to stretch their consecutive win streak to 23 games and coach Earl Blaik’s Marauders are 20 point fa- vorites to come out on top. -- The Texas Longhorns, second to Army in the National rankings, battle the once tied Arkansas Ra- zcrhacks at Austin, Tex, in their 2 Southwest Conference opener. -s In the Midwest, the center of 2 attraction again is at Ann Arbor, Mich. On Pacific Coast @ On the Pacific Coast, the inter- est is divided between the UCLA Pruins-C California clash and the {. Oregon Washington State engage ment. @ Other attractions are found at Franklin Field, Philadelphia, where the Ivy League powerhouse, Penn sylyania hooks. up with once tied Virginia. Georgia, another unde- feated southern squad will battle a tough Oklahoma A & M machine at Athens, Ga. Notre Dame, which has run .rcughshod over Illinois, Pittsburgh end Purdue, enjoys a holiday. . Elsewhere around the grid front, the Kansas Jay Hawks put their Big Six claims on the line in a -tussle with Nebraska which has dropped encounters to Iowa and Minnesota. Other Big Six games send the powerful Oklahoma Soon- .-ers against thrice beaten Kansas State and a tough Missouri eleven against Iowa State. Underdog Fight Indianas defending Big Nine champions take on an underdog Iowa eleven at hcme while Ohio States Buckeyes tackle crippled Purdue Bcilermaker machine and Wisconsin goes after its second conference win at the expense or Illinois. Other eastern attractions find Michigan State at Penn State, Sy- raeuse at Holy Cross, St. Mary’s at Fordham, Yale at Cornell, Dart mouth and Brown at Providence and Rutgers at Princeton. Tn the south, Auburn meets Tu- lane, Georgia Tech scuffles under the arcs at LSU and Vanderbilt duels Kentucky in Southeastern Conference games. Other southern conflicts have Richmond at Duke, Louisiana Tech at Mississippi State and Miami at Florida. The South west has Baylor at Texas Tech, Southern Methodist at Rice, Texas Christians at Texas A & M and the far west, Santa Clara at Stanford, Washington at Southern Cal, Utah at Denver and Colorado at Brig ham Young among others. U D Scores Upset The University of Detroit scored an upset last night when it came from behind in the last minute and a half of play to score seven points and defeat Tulsa’s previously un- beaten Golden Hurricanes, 20–⁠14 before 20,200 fans at Detroit Trailing, 1914, Pete Sullivan, De- troit tackle, recovered Tulsa tumble on the Hurricane 13 and fullback Jim Massey of the Titans then crashed over in three straight attempts at the middle of the line for the winning touchdown. Maryland won 60 over VPI and Temple scored its first win of the year by nosing out West Virginia, GO.

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Utah leads 28–⁠10–⁠5 in 43 meetings, counting the 14 since this game.