Notre Dame at Iowa

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  Evening star, District of Columbia, October 27, 1946, page 26

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  Powerful kotre Dame Gets 41–⁠6 Revenge In Iowa TussIe Lujock-Spurked Triumph Is First for Irish on Howkeyes’ Gridiron hsoOSldtcd EIcSS opoiNo “AASSa IOWA CITY, Ia, Oct. 26-Proud Notre Dame tossed football thunder bolts at Iowa to crack jinx that long had ranked Irish hearts. The irresistible Irish, with Johnny Lujack as their guiding genius, ran up a Al to score on an Iowa team that had hoped to emulate the performances of 1921 and 1899 Hawkeye teams to keep a perfect record at home against Notre Dame. But Lujack, whose cunning of the T formation was downright chi canery, and his mates were out to avenge previous Irish downfalls. | The Irish, running their winning streak to four games, wasted no time in going out front. After Dick Hoerner fumbled on the third Iowa play and Lujack recovered for the Irish on the Iowa %, Notre Dame Posted touchdown on its third trial with the ball. Lujack’s Toss Starts Irish 1t was the 1.-the Lujack and Half back Terry Brennan who did the business, the Notre Dame quarter back tossing to Brennan from the “a to the Hawks 2 and the receiver merely stepping over the goal line. Fred Farley, he with the automatic place-kicking toe, came. of the bench to boot the first of five points after touchdowns. - | Lujack’s toss was the start Of busy afternoon for the fellow whom Coach Frank Leahy calls the Playing Coach” An estimated capacity crowd OF 52,311 saw Lujack complete 7 OF II passes for 1876 yards and he made :48-yard touchdown run as he danced along the sidelines after grabbing Jim Mello’s tumble. Lujack’s tally increased the Irish lead to 20 to O. the sparkler coming after John Panelli, one of the 26 (See NOTRE DANE, Page BAD

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  The Wilmington morning star, North Carolina, October 28, 1946, page 1 (results column)

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  ,1obeaten Teams Al Texas, Tennessee, Michigan, State Toppled yFW YORK, Oct. 27 - (P rta football seismograph still re- .c,ed sunday from another series a. ~aheavals that shook the pig ~ .+.ia world and toppled some of en- nations powers from their lofty positions aao the same since little Gin .sS y started it rocking by whip . .ao Indiana’s big nine champ. r5 ‘vav back in September when w.. W. b~asebalIers apparently were 4st Getting their second wind. The most cesounding crash was ..s~d from Texas where a fight Rice eleven tumbled mighty r6vss from the unbeaten and -s;tpd list with an 1913 upset of ~.+ounding proportion. Deacons’s Win uo.vv damage also was conferred .ne South where Wake Forest, sa.,en for the first time only a rock ago by North Carolina State, listed Tennessee’s perfect record ~i,5 = smashing 1876 triumph. and W. twice.beaten. twice-tied Virginia Tech squad handed N. c. State ls first licking, 1916. The six other major elevens with mbeaten and united records – G~mv. Notre Dame, Pennsylvania, nc L. A.. Georgia. and Harvard managed to keep their states dean but there were plenty OF ot5pr form r~eversals along with the snsets that dumpeo Texas, Tenn sssee and N. c. State. Hapless Mississippi clipped Arkansas 81; Southern Methodist tranked Missouri 40; Illinois re- FAMED prestige by nosing out Michigan 1879; West Virginia trip ned Syracuse, 1870; Kings Point S Merchant Mariners squeezed past Fordham. rs; moderated Gin ~innati staged another surprise in oonouering Michigan State; 1877, md Boston University’s weak squad scored a moral victory in vino Browns Ivy league-s, 14–⁠14. Tar Heels : North Carolina, Oregon and Northwestern, unbeaten but once led. kept in step with the first TX by piliag up easy victories. Army, held s~co~eless on the ground for the first time since it started its 24-game victory string, look TO the air to overcome the powerfully defensive Duke Blue Devils, 1910 at the Polo Grounds. The Cadets touchdown twins, Jounior Davis ard Doc Blanchard, piled up yardage on the ground out it was Arnold fuckers passing arm that forced the victory. Tuck sr tossed three touchdown aerials, two Of them to Davis TO keep the Cadets rolling. Another great passing perform. ance was turned in by Notre Danes Johnny Lujack who pitch ed the Irish to a humping 41–⁠6 victory over Iowa to give the ma ton second ranking squad its first triumph over the HaWkeyes in Iowa City. Powerful Pennsylvania rolled ever Navy, 32-l9, with skippy M5aisi dazzling the capacity crowd IN Philadelphia’‘s FGranklin Field with a truly All-American perform a.ce. The Quakers closed the sa.es in the second half by with arawing Minisi and the rest of the first team. U. c. L. As Bruins passed an other hurdle en- route to the Rose Bowl in easy fashion by massacring Santa Clara 1877 while Georgia SteamroIlered Furman, TOT. Har- Yard headed into November with d 30 record by defeating Holy Cross, 1876. Florida Loses North Carolina polished off FLORIDA, 40–⁠19, but Oregon got plenty of resistance from Idaho 0efore winning 26–⁠13. Northwest ems big nine conference leaders look things easy with Alonzo 9’aggs College of the Pacific visitors, winning 26–⁠13. Although Notre Dame overcame ls Iowa City Jinx, Texas still was “ood0oed by Rice. The Triumph marked the Owls third victory qyef Texas in as many years. 6ea’eA only by Louisiana State, z D. IN their opener, the Owls, now Io-olhg a Al record, scored first u me starting period, were tied [0! d. The half, and then scared 1acf with u points in the third 40aIter 10 clinch the contest. The ,oagnorns rallied under Bobby Lsyne’s leadership to tally seven Eu-4’s In the closing frame but @s Owls held -esolutely to their i’ve point margin. -ayne gave a magnificent per- 9imahce connecting for IL out ~ passes for 100 yards – but

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Notre Dame leads 13–⁠8–⁠3 in 24 meetings, counting the 19 since this game.