Alabama at Tennessee

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  The Wilmington morning star, North Carolina, October 20, 1946, page 1

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  Crushes Richmond, II To O; Tennessee Topples Crimson Tide FRONT WALL OF VOLS PRODUCES 12–⁠0 DECISION KNOXVILLE, Tenn, Oct. 49, Tennessee derailed Alabama, high riding Red Elephants fon. times in the shadow of the gosl “a, day and put together two sustained drives to dump the Rose Bon, champions from the unbea+o, ranks, 1910, before a canaci,a crowd of 20, DOC. 1t was the first defeat for Coao, Frank Thomas team in a regular. season game since Georgia turned the trick in 1914. 1t ended a IA. game winning streak. For Coach Bob Neyland of the Vols it was ~. Seth straight regular = season viz. tory, which started before he went into the Army in 1910. The Vols were a determined chin and would not be denied, desni,o entering the game as the under. dog. Harry Gilmer, the Tides grea, passer, put on an exhibition thai, had the partisan crowd on edse out the Vols stopped the aerial cas-. cades when it had to. Three time, in the last quarter, Gilmer passed his team inside the Vols 10, bp, to no avail. Neyland’s crew, with Bob Lund a substitute tailback in a starring role. drove As yards to a tally in the second period and then stopped an Alabama drive in the third No. Rod at the 80 and drove back 60 yards for a second touchdown. Lund scored both touchdowns on short plunges, the first after he had accounted for most of ts yardage and the clincher after Wal Slater, Tennessee’s captain, had engineered the effort to within inches of the goal. Lund replaced Slater and scored in one play. The vastly superior line play Of the Vols spelled the difference highlands big forward wall out, charged and outfought the South eastern conference champions after the first period, and refused to yield at critical moments after that. The second teams came out for the second period with Tennessees Billy Gold and Lund sparkling a ground attack 80 yards to midfield Until that point, Tennessee lad not made a first down. After te punt exchange, the Vols moved Il yards to score with Lund account ing for most of the yardage, carry. ing and passing. He and Gold alternated for two first downs to the tide Il. Lurd then plunged nine yards and pass ed to Bill Hillman at the eight

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  The Waterbury Democrat, October 21, 1946, page 8 (results column)

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  Do Grosa Run,ored Out as Holy Cross Football Coach tennessee Bidder ForRose Bowl New York, Oct. 21. CUP)-Army, Texas and U.CL.A, 100 percent upset proof” SO far in a season of form reversals, led the parade to- day as the 1946 football campaign approached the halfway point with Notre Dame still not fully tested and Tennessee back in the drivers seat in the unpredictable South. Those are the nations current big five. They’ll all be back in action this week and at least three will have to exert strong pressure to escape undefeated. Army’s powerful Cadets engage twice beaten but still dangerous Duke at the Polo Grounds in New York, Notre Dame plays at Iowa which down the years, has been the No. l jinx team for the Irish and Texas goes up against Rice an out fit the Longhorns fear more than any remaining on their schedule. Tennessee Has Breather Tennessee, 8 12 to 0 victor over Alabama’s sputtering Rose Bowl champions last week, picks up an easier assignment in Wake Forest and U.C.L.A., which squeezed past California, 13 to 6, plays Santa Clara. Although favorites over the na- tion absorbed higher percentage of defeats than usual last Satur- day, the top teams held their ground. Army, ignited by Felix (Doc) Blanchard’s four touchdowrs, plunged Columbia from the unde- feated ranks, 48 to Is and Bobby Layne’s three touchdown passes dumped previously unbeaten Ar kansas, 20 to 0. Tennessee, scoring twice on sustained marches, four times braced near it’s own goal to ward off Alabama drives engineered by Harry Gilmer’s passes and U.CL.A. often was in danger of another upset by California which had whipped St. Mary’s the week before. Duke had Al to breather with Richmond before tackling Army, Iowa prefaced its meeting with Notre Dame by eliminating 1n- dianas Big Nine champions from the Conference race, 13 to 0, and Rice warmed up” for Texas by de- feating Southern Methodist in a Southwestern Conference game, 21 to T. However, Santa Clara, which meets U.C.L.A. this week, lost to Stanford, B to 26, and Tennessees next foe, Wake Forest, dropped a IA to 6 Southern Conference dec1- sion to North Carolina State. Out in the Big Nine, last weeks so-called title game between the only two teams unbeaten in Con- ference competition wound up in a IA to IA standoff between North western and Michigan. Purdue and Ohio State also played IA to IA tie, but Julie Rykovich led Illinois to two fourth period touchdowns which earned 27 to 21 victory over Wisconsin and Iowa scored twice in the first period to hand Indiana it’s second big Nine defeat, Min Ilesota whipped Wyoming, 46 to O, in a non-conference game. Tech Upsets State Tennessee’s victory over Alabama was all-important in the South eastern Conference, for Tennessee beaten Georgia Tech knocked over previously unbeaten Louisiana State, 26 to T, and Tulane whipped Auburn, 26 to o. Kentucky’s To- point third period downed Wander bilt, 10 to T, in another conference game while Georgia easily defeated Oklahoma A. and M, B to 13, and Mississippi State whipped San Francisco 48 to 20 in intersectional contests. In the Southern Conference, North Carolina State came from behind to score its IA to 6 victory over Wake Forest. Furman defeated Citadel, IA to 0, VMI whipped Davidson, 25 to and William and Mary routed Washington and Lee, 34 to 18 On the West Coast, South Cali fornia rebounded to defeat Wash ington, 28 to 0, but unbeaten Ore gon was held to scoreless tie by Washington State in Conference games. Powerful Pennsylvania continued it’s romp in the East by crushing Virginia, 40 to o. St. Mary’s whipped Fordham, 33 to 2, in revival of their intersectional series at New York and North Carolina defeated Navy, 21 to IA. Cornell tied Yale, 6 to 6. Brown upset Dartmouth, 20 to 13. Michigan State trimmed Penn State, 16 to IA. and Pitts burgh defeated Marquette, ‘ to 6, in other eastern headliners. Leading games in the east this week: East-Duke vs, Army at New York, Navy at Penn, Cornell at Princeton, Holy Cross at Harvard,

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  Tabor City tribune, Tabor City, N.C., October 25, 1946, page 1 (results column)

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  ;P-I-G-S-K-I-N REVIEW Furman u. 14-C1tadel U. Citadel’s fighting Bulldog eleven took a 14-O defeat from Furman’s bigger and tougher Purple Hurricane in a bruising gridiron match which definitely kept its promise that the game would be no runaway, as some of the experts had predicted. N. C. State 14-Wake Forest 6. North Carolina States flash Wolf pack took to the air to win hard earned 14–⁠6 victory over Wake Forest College. Until the teams met Saturday neither had been defeated nor tied. It was bitterly-fought thrill-packed battle, with both bulky lines playing bruising football, break ing up sustained marches and pass interruptions that kept the spectators rising from their seats. GuiIford College 36-Wooford O. Guilford Colleges Quakers put the skids under the Wofford Terriers $50 to remain among the unbeaten united and unscored-on football teams. The game was feature OF the Wofford college Homecoming week end. E.C.T.C. 21-Erskine College I. Eastern Carolina Teachers college chalked up a Git victory over the Erskine college eleven in the Green vile, N. c. stadium. Other scores of interest include: Tennessee 12-Alabama 0 Kentucky 10-Vanderbilt 7 Army 48-Columbia IA Duke 41-Richmond Michigan 14-Northwestern IA

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  The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, October 21, 1946, page 3 (results column)

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  GSno FOOT BALL ! SCORES The following are final scores of leading football games played dur ing the. weekend: Michigan IA; Northwestern IA, tie. Ohio State IA; Purdue IA, tie. Marquette G.. Pitt T. Army AS; Columbia IA. North Carolina 21 Navy IA. Cornell 6; Yale 6, tie. St. Marys 33; Fordham 2. Virginia 0; Penn 40. Alabama 0; Tennessee 12. Michigan State 16; Penn State 16. Coast Guard 0; Harvard 69. Dartmouth 13; Brown 20. NYU 6; Rochester 0. Rutgers ‘; Princeton IA. Georgia B; Oklahoma Aggies IS. Syracuse 21; Holy Cross 12. William 6 Mary 34; Washington Lee 13 Davidson 0; VMI 25. Miami 20 Florida 13. Iowa l3; Indiana 0. Illinois 27 Wisconsin 21. Kentucky 10; Vanderbilt ‘. Arkansas 0; Texas 20. Baylor 6; Texas Tech 13. Duke 4l; Richmond 0. Texas Christian 0; Texas Aggies A. Tulane 32; Auburn 0.

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Officially, Alabama leads 60–⁠41–⁠6; as played, 61–⁠40–⁠7 in 108 meetings, counting the 80 since this game.