Rutgers at Columbia

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  Evening star, September 28, 1947, page 35

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  Favored Columbia Rallies 10 Whip Rutgers. 40–⁠28 NEW YORK, Sept. 27.-Columbia scored four touchdowns on Rutgers the first five times it got hold OF the ball today, and then had to come from behind with furious late rally led by Gene Rossides to down the scrapping Scarlets 1923. A crowd of 10000 saw the thriller at Baker Field. After 16 minutes of play, Coach Lou Little’s speedsters led, 81 to O. before Rutgers went to work. Midway of the final quarter the determined visitors ripped so yards in three running plays to score and added the extra point to lead the Light Blue favorites by 1927 as the Rutgers rooters raised the roof. Then Rossides took charge.

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  The Daily Alaska empire, September 30, 1947, page 3 (results column)

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  { 0kLEGE FOOTBALL ROUNDUP 6N AhfNOlJl1 ClAASa’NNN NEW YORK. Sept. 3c.-al-No- tre Dame, awarCsd the 1947 col lege football crown month ago in all states except Michigan and North Carolina. plays it’s first game next Saturday to highlight grid iron card that will compete with tke World Series for interest. Tr2 Irish, manned by veteran stars at virtually every post, open against Pittsburgh, team that held Illinois scoreless for three quarters on Saturday before losing ty score of IA to 0. The stub boYness of the PantEers in their fray with the defending Big Nine titleholders was one of the fea- lures of last Saturdays schedule. Michigan and North Carolina will try to strengthen their claims to the mythical national title in a pair of intersectional games, with the Wolverines-wh bumped Michigan State, 55 to 0, in their urst outing tangling with Stan ford. l9 to l6 upset victim of Dixie Howell’s Idaho Vandals. North Carolina, whi2h sneakod by Georgia. l4 to ‘, visits Texas in a fray that should raise tenn peratures in both Austin and Chapel Hill The Longhorns, per torming out of the “I’ tnis year, invaded Oregon last weekend and ‘rounc1d the coast eleven, S8 to 13. West Coast Game The new West Coast-Blg Nine tieup also goes on display at Evans ton. H., where Northwestern. 3 to victim of Vanderbilt in it’s opener, takes on UCLA, defending coast champion and already 27 o victor over Iowa. Other Big Nine frays have Wis 1onsin at Indiana, Ohio State at Purdue, Illinois at Iowa and Min nesota resuming it’s series with Nebraska of the Big Six. The South also offers an attrac- tive card. Louisiana State, winch opened with 21 to IA verdict over Rice, takes on Georgia at Athens and Georgia Tech, which amazed with it’s 27 to 0 job on Tennessee, visits Tulane, a team that blasted Alabama out of the un eaten ranks by a single point, 2l to %. The Crimson Tide is the guest of Vanderbilt. Big Six Opening Dukes Blue Devils. who conquer ed North Carolina State by to c, s next on the Tennessee sche- dule, while Mississippi State travels Ill the way to Michigan State. Iowa State, to Q loser to Col orado, tangles with Kansas in the opening Big Six Conference fray while the Rocky Mountain Buffa- ices trudge east to see what they eau do about stopping the Army’s lnDeaten string that moved 10 ~ straight Saturday with a l3 to 0 1erdict over Villanova Navy, polished off by California, IA to T is host to a Columbia team that scored four touchdowns and then sat back and watched Rutgers get four before winning 40 to 28. Other eastern attractions are Brown at Princeton, Lafavette 1t Pennsylvania, Cornell at Yale nd Bucknell at Penn State. Lelaware’s string of 32 games without loss is in jeopardy next Friday night when the team tangl- ss with Maryland. Delaware con- luered Penn Military last Satur fay night, 25 to l3, and Maryland warmed up for i55 task with l9 Q 13 verdict over South Care ina.

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Rutgers leads 23–⁠21–⁠5 in 49 meetings, counting the 25 since this game.