Texas A&M at SMU

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  Evening star, District of Columbia, November 11, 1946, page 11 (results column)

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  NEW YORK, Nov. 11-Army and Notre Dame loom as co-champions of the college football ranks, barring upsets in the final three weeks Of the season with U. c. L. A. and Georgia, giving the national lead ers a good run for their money. Although the Cadets string OF Is consecutive victories ended in the 90 tie with the fighting Irish before 74,068 customers at Yankee Stadium Saturday, neither side appeared to have lost prestige in the crunching battle of lines. Looking ahead to Saturday there Is potential trouble for both of the high-fying leaders who may find it difficult to keep themselves “up” for two weeks In a row. The Army bumps into an aroused Pennsylvania team that saw its dreams of title blasted by the Princeton upset Of a week ago. Coach George Munger’s Quakers got back on the beam with 41–⁠6 romp over q strong Columbia team and are thirsting for revenge for last years 60 humiliation by the Cadets. Irish Meet Wildcats. Notre Dame grapples with North western, which will be attempting to rebound from a surprising To upset by Indiana. The stock of both U. G. L. A. and Georgia rose several points over the week end, as they protected their unbeaten-untied records with respective decisions over oregon and Florida. Neither, however, was in the nature of romp. Florida gave Georgia plenty OF trouble, forcing the bowl-minded Bulldogs to come from behind in the second half for a 1914 verdict. Charles Trippi, Georgia’s All-Amerlea backfield candidate, was bottled up in the first two periods but scored two touchdowns and passed for a third in the second half. Coach Wally Butts Bulldogs next foe is subpar Auburn eleven, which bowed to Mississippi State, $50. U. c. L. A. was hard pressed, 14–⁠0, by Oregon, team that took a 43–⁠0 pasting from Southern Cali fornia a week ago. The Trojans kept in step for their November 23 clash with U. c. L. A. that prob ably will determine the Western Rose Bowl representative by 14–⁠0 victory over stubborn California. This Saturdays foe is Montana. Arkansas scrambled the South west situation by subduing Rice, TO, thus taking over the conference lead from the Owls, only team that has been able to trim mighty Texas. Major upset of the day was Kan sas’ 1913 edge over Oklahoma on Paul Turner’s field goal in the final minutes, leaving Missouri, 21–⁠0 vic tors over Colorado, the Blk Six leader. Other major surprises were Syracuse’s l4–⁠7 score over Cornell, Virginia’s 20–⁠6 edge over Princeton, conquerors of Penn, and Texas Aggies’ 14–⁠0 margin over Southern Methodist. Navy appeared headed for its worst season in history after bow ing to Georgia Techs strong engineers, 1920. A husky Penn State eleven. which hammered Temple,

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Texas A&M leads 45–⁠29–⁠7 in 81 meetings, counting the 52 since this game.