Kentucky at Ole Miss

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  Evening star, District of Columbia, September 21, 1947, page 37

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  Coner|y and Poole Sci Pace as Mississippi Tops Kentucky, 14–⁠7 OXFORD, Miss. Sept. 20.-The good right arm Of Chunking Charley Conerly and the big. grasping hands OF Barney Poole accounted for Southeastern Conference football victory for Mississippi over Ken lucky today, IA to 7. Under sunny skies ventilated by hurricane-bred brisk breezes, a crowd of about $4,000 saw the Rebels rack up touchdowns in the first and third periods. The Wildcats best effort was All opening period tally. Conerly the Engineer. Conerly, 1.-THE, heet-footed youth, engineered Mississippi’s offensive power, although his key receiver, Poole, cashed in eight tosses for II yards and one touchdown. As if that wasn’t enough, Conerly reeled off consistent running gains to keep the Wildcats defense off balance and got off punts for an average of 357 yards. Eulas Jenkins of the Rebels returned the opening kickoff 10 yards and then skirted right end for “a to arrange matters for Conerly. He nailed jenkins with 9-yard heave, ran for 16 in two tries himself to carry to Kentucky’s 80. A pass. Conerly to Right End Everett Harper, was good for eight and then minute later the chunker hit Halfback Farley Salmon for II just before plopping the ball in Poole’s hands over the goal line. Wildcats Score on Pass. Minutes later a punt that went out of bounds on the Is gave the Wildcats a lift and Halfback Don Phelps in three runs moved to the three. A pass from George Blanda to Wallace Jones meant six points. In a third-period drive from his own 20 to the yard line, Conerly found Salmon for a 31-yard gain and the ever-present Poole three times for about 25 yards. 1nterception of boiler aerial by jenkins, who sped AZ yards to the Kentucky 81, set Conerly in action again. He finally ran over from the eight.

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Officially, Ole Miss leads 30–⁠15–⁠1; as played, 31–⁠15–⁠1 in 47 meetings, counting the 43 since this game.