Navy at Pennsylvania

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

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  Minisi Defeats Ex.Tean1mates For Penn, 32–⁠19 Makes Three Scores, Passes for Fourth, Before $4,000 D. E.. r Sk PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 26.-Tony Minisi who played for Navy last year and beat Pennsylvania with a forward pass in the final Is seconds, made it up to the Red and Blue today as he led Penn to a 32-to-19 victory before $4,000 spectators Playing only part of the first half and not at all in the last two quarters. the 20-year- -old left-handed halfback scored three touchdowns and passed for a fourth to give Penn 1876 lead at the intermission. The margin was too great for a plucky, ard-fghting Navy team to overcome despite a great rally. So hot was Minisi’s hand today that in the second period he scored two touchdowns within SO seconds by way of assuring the Penn power house of fourth straight triumph and himself of All-Americaconsideration. He ran his string of COM pleted passes for the season to 13 straight before missing, galloped 36 yards around end for one touch down, bucked over from the 1-yard line yard for another and carried an intercepted pass 40 yards for his final contribution to the defeat of his former teammates. Navy Dominates Second Half. Navy was overwhelmed only because of Minisi, for in the second half the Midshipmen took COM mand and not only scored a pair Of touchdowns but missed third score by a scant yards. 1t was Navy’s fourth straight defeat against a single victory, but the Middies played their best football of the year. Penn surprised Navy by using the T formation for the first time this season to augment a single wing offense, but only when Minisi was in the game did the T click. The Quakers, overwhelming favor ties to win the 31st game between the teams and end 6-year famine against Navy, took TO lead after I7:5l of the opening period when an intercepted pass put them in scoring position. ! Charles Bednarik, Penn center, grabbed an aerial thrown by Quarterback Jack Welsh and ran % yards to Nays Is. Bob Deuber, a fleet ball carrier, reeled off 20 yards around end and Minisi, after losing 3 yards, passed to End Art Littleton in the end zone for the first touch down. 1t was Minisi’s 18th COM pleted pass in as many tries this season. ! Quakers Add to Lead. | The only touchdown in which Minisi had no hand was the second. which gave Penn a 14–⁠0 lead at the end of the first period A 22-yard run by Deuber moved Penn to Nays AZ and pass, Carmen Falcone to Ed Allen. put the ball on the 20. Two plays later another fleet back. Don Schneider, skirted Navy’s right end for a touchdown. Another interception of Navy pass, this time by Bill Luongo, gave Penn the ball on its IL early in the tScCOllu Qudl tcI DCuUSI pdoSCo W Jerry Mccarthy, who lateraled to Ed Lawless, and the ball was on Navy’s So. Oh the next play Minisi ran around the Middies’ right end, cut back and Travelled all the way for touchdown. When Bob Evans kick was blocked. it was 900. The staggered Midshipmen rallied when Fullback Lynn Chewing kicked outside on Penn’s and Left Halfback Pete Williams ran the return punt to the Quakers A. On the next play Welsh passed to Will Iams, who ran down the sidelines. shook off two tacklers. and scored to cut the score to 20–⁠6. Penn charged back, however, to put the game beyond reach. With Minisi leading running end and passing attack, the Red and Blue. aided by a 15-yard roughness PEN atty, moved Sc yards to Navyis /, from where Minisi plunged across to make it 26–⁠6. Less than min ute later Minisi intercepted a pass | (See NAVY, Page BID

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  The Wilmington morning star, North Carolina, October 27, 1946, page 1

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  PENN TOPPLES MIDDIES BY TUNE OF 32-l9 Tony Minisi Is e a d e For Victors AT Philadelphia PHILADELPHIA. Oct. &c W.P- Tony (Skippy) Minisi paid back his debt to Pennsylvania today when he spanked the Quakers to a 32–⁠19 victory over the Navy before $4,000 thrilled fans on Franklin Field. The former Newark Academy boy, whose touchdown for Navy in the final % seconds of play defeat ed Penn a year ago, turned in a man-sized days work in the two periods that he played and served general notice again that he is in the running for any all-American team. 1t was Minisi all the way through. But he had help from a Pennsylvania team that added to its sta ture today by displaying a T-fofnation, which coupled with its standard single wing, produced too varied and two powerful an often sive for a game Navy team to fathom. All that Minisi did for the day was score three touchdoWns and pass for a fourth before he retired. He say no action in the second half, and that was when Navy turn ed, in its best play. One of Minisi’s touchdoWns was a SO yard-run from scrimmage and n was a 49 yard gallop after he Intercepted a pass. In both he SEEM ed stopped a half dozen times but he went over the goal after escap. ing what seemed fool-proof traps. While Minisi’s play may not have been too great a surprise, the man ner in which Penn manipulated the T for the first time this season proved a revelation. 1t operated best when he vas in the game, and in the second haE, was discarded as Penn played out the time. Minisi waited nc longer than the first time he got his hands On the ball to display his wares. His first sortie was a 10 yard run, then he sent Penn off in the lead by throw ing a seven yara touchdown pass to Art Littleton. Don Schneider &C counted for PENIS second touch down. The Minisi lightning really struck Navy in the second period. First he ran 36 yards for a score. Then he went over from the n after a roughing penalty against Navy put the ball On that spot. Less than a minute later, he intercepted TO run 40 yards for another tally. Navy made a bid in the second period when Jake Welsh passed to pistol Pete Williams who ran Al to score. But the rally was only temporary, and Penn went along to win. Competing against Penn reserves Navy wound up the scoring in the fourth period with Bill Hawkins scoring from the two, and Bill Bart lett passing ten yards to Bob SchoWeffermann.

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  The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, October 28, 1946, page 3 (results column)

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  FOOTBALL ROUNDUP Notre Dame, still immune to the upset epidemic, led the parade today as the college football cam paign headed into it’s final month With UCLA, Pennsylvania. Georgia and Harvard they remained the cnly undefeated, united major el- eyens. Army made it “A straight with a l9–⁠0 win over stubborn Duke team; Notre Dame cracked it’s Iowa jinx by blasting the Hawk eyes 4l-6; powerful Penn rolled over Navy 32–⁠19; UCLA’s Bruins moved a step nearer to the Rose Bowl with a 33–⁠7 romp over Santa Clara; Georgia pulverized Fuman 7C-7 and Harvard squeezed by Holy Cross 1876. Three Teams Fall Three teams -- Texas, Tennessee and North Carolina State-boasting untarnished records up to last Sat uday, fell by the wayside North western, Oregon and North Caro- lima U., each tied once, remained unbeaten. Unless they are bitJen Dy the up- set hug next week, Army and Notre Dame will present spotless slates when they meet at the Yankee Sta diunl Nov g. Each enjoys com parative breather next Saturday, the West Pointers tuning up with twice-beaten West Virginia and the Ramblers engaging the below-stap- dard Navy Midshipmen, who have dropped four in a rew since their openng game triumph Army has won six games and Notre Dame 1cur., Pigskin Spotlight The pigskin in spotlight next week Will center on the south where the Georgia Bulldogs take on Ala bama. The Crimson Tide, Rose Bowl champions, bounding back from an unexpected defeat by Ten nessee with a 21–⁠7 win over Ken lucky last Saturday, will provide the stenest test yet encountered by Georgia, which has knocked off five foes in a row. Southeastern fans also will be treated to line games in Durham, N. C.. where 1ast-rising Georgia Tech tangles with the Duke team which gave Army some anxious moments and in Knoxville, Tenn., where the cnce-beaten Tennessee Vols attempt to hang the first de- feat on North Carolina. Tied For Conference In the southwest, Rice and Texas A&M, tied for the conference lead, take en Texas Tech and Arkansas, respectively. in pair of games that may scramble the standings. Texas, victim of a stunning 18-l3 upset by Rices fighting Owls, tries to regain some of it’s fading glory against formidable Southern Meth cdist. Little Cincinnati, the David of the football goliaths, seeks it’s fifth win in six games at the ex- pense of highly favored Tulsa. Big Nine News The Big Nine dominates the mid western section. Illinois, aiming at the conference championship after a dismal start, takes on Iowa Michigan attempts to return to the win column against Minnesota Ohio State, finally looking like the powerful team it had been cracked up to be, meets Northwestern, with only tie to mar it’s otherwise spotless five-game record, and Wis consin plays Purdue Indiana clash es with Pittsburgh in an intersec- tional game Unbeaten Penn tackles Princeton in an Ivy League game in the cast, and Harvard hopes to remain in the select class by knocking oli stubborn Rutgers.

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Pennsylvania leads 22–⁠21–⁠4 in 47 meetings, counting the 16 since this game.