Indiana at Northwestern

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  Evening star, November 10, 1946, page 32

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  War Pilot Place Kick Dims Northwestern 5 Big Nine Title Hopes EVANSTON, Ill, Nov. “a reserve tackle who few 81 bombing missions over Europe place-kickeo the extra point which gave Indiana a 7–⁠6 verdict over Northwestern and famed into new life the smoldering Big Nine title hopes of the defend ing champion Hoosiers before 35, ,O0O fans today. Ex-Army Pilot Charley Armstrong booted the big point after Ben the Rifle Raimondi, the Nations top passer, whipped surprising 2-yard touchdown pass to Halfback Dick Deranek on the first play OF the fourth period. Second Straight Loss. The erratic Wildcats, who scored their touchdown in the second period. on Fullback Vic Schwall’s Z yard smash, thus suffered their second straight Big Nine loss and ostensibly had the title door slammed before them with only league leading Illinois to play. Schwall. the Big Mines leading scorer with 40 points, made good on his placement, but Northwestern was holding. Then, when he tried again, from the “a, his placement was wide. Bunched for Plunge. After stopping three successive Indiana line punches in the ‘last period on the 2-yard line, the Wild cats punched close to the scrimmage line for an expected fourth thrust. Instead. Raimondi took the ball from center, whirled and Tipped the ball to Deranek who was stand ing alone in the corner OF the emo zone for touchdown

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  The Waterbury Democrat, November 13, 1946, page 11 (results column)

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  This weeks football across the land falls into the “breather” brack- ct. and it’s about time. after last weeks dizzy upsets. While the nation at every cross roads was keeping up with footballs battle of the century between Army and Notre Dame. gridirons from Maine to California and from the Great Lakes to the Gulf were turning ou. some SO upsets. Of these, more than 30 just shouldn’t have happened The Williamson Football Rating System suffered ,s worst week since before the war with an 82 percent average on 352 games reported. in- cluding some 50 contests reported late from previous weeks. But in the nations top ten, the System clung to a consistency mark of 95.4 percent. With Georgia in the No. slot, Army and Notre Dame in second place after their titanic scoreless tie. Tennessee in fourth place, and Georgia Tech LSU, Rice, UCLA. Texas and Illinois rounding out footballs blue book, the System can point to the most compact upper circle in the records The Systems first ten teams have played 65 games this season. only three of which have been grabbed by teams rating below the upper most cluster. The first ten, as they rate this week, probably represent the most consistent teams Of any of the 750 teams appraised by the System. In the general football heap. up- sets hit the majors and the minors, alike, though the biggest noise came on smaller campuses, Among the headliners, Arkansas TO win over Rice was a blow. So was Syracuse’s I4–⁠7 triumph over Cornell, and Indianas 7–⁠6 job against Northwestern. Virginia rocked the experts by whipping Princeton, 20–⁠6, and LSU rattled AlAlC hIliA ScIlSdtlONdl oI-< VIC tory over Alabama. Reyersals of form among the minor schools were too numerous to record, An example Of what went on, however, was Indiana Centrals 60 win over Hanover. when the latter should have won by maybe eight 10 ten touchdoWns, The System was able, in spite of the way the ball bounced generally, to come up with some exceptionally good selections. The nod was given Villanova, who turned back Detroit. 23–⁠6 Butler was favored by the System over St. Joseph and paid off by winning, 3l-6. Others nailed cor rectly were; Delaware 27 Bucknell l4 Chattanooga 34. Dayton ‘. and Vanderbilt ‘, North Carolina State o, On the Vandy-NC, State game, the System picked the latter, but warned everybody about a possible Vanderbilt upset, The week produced what is prob ably the finest small college team in the country when Southeastern Louisiana College at Hammond de- feated by 22-l5 lop-rated Louisiana Tech, winner over Ole Miss South

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Northwestern leads 47–⁠37–⁠1 in 85 meetings, counting the 58 since this game.