Rice at LSU

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  Evening star, District of Columbia, September 29, 1947, page 19 (results column)

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  Nofre Dame Launche! Season on Saturday Against Pittsburgh NEW YORK, Sept. 20. -Notre Dame, awarded the 1947 college foot ball crown q month ago in all States except Michigan and North Carolina, plays its first game Saturday to highlight gridiron card that will compete with the World Series for interest. The Irish, manned by veteran stars at virtually every post, open against Pittsburgh, a team that held Illinois scoreless for three quarters Saturday before losing IA to o. The stub bornness Of the Panthers In their game with the defending Big Nine titleholders was one of the features 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-who bumped Michigan State, SIS to 0, in their first outing tangling with Stanford, 10 to 16 upset victim of Dixie Howell’s Idaho Vandals. North Carolina, which sneaked by Georgia, II to Z, visits Texas in a battle that should raise Temperatures IN both Austin and Chapel Hill. The Longhorns, performing out of the I this year, invaded Oregon last week end and trounced the coast eleven SO to 13. The new West Coast-Big Nine tieup also goes on display at Evans ton. ILL.,, where Northwestern, 80 victim Of Vanderbilt in its opener, takes on U. c. L. A., defending Coast champion and already a 70 tot victor over Iowa. Other Big Nine games have Wis consin at Indiana, Ohio State at Purdue, Illinois at Iowa and Minnesofa resuming its series with Ne braska of the Big Six. The South also offers an attractive card. Louisiana State, which opened with a 21–⁠14 verdict over Rice, takes on Georgia at Athens, and Georgia Tech, which amazed with Its 27-to-0 job on Tennessee, visits Tulane, a team that blasted Alabama out Of the unbeaten ranks by single point, 81 to 20. The Crimson Tide is the guest of VAN derbilt. Dukes. Blue Devils, who conquered North Carolina State by z to 0, is next on the Tennessee schedule while Mississippi State travels all the way to Michigan State. Iowa State, 7-to-0 loser to Color ado, tangles with Kansas In the opening Big Six Conference game, while the Rocky Mountain Buffaloes come East to see what they can do about stopping the Army’s unbeaten string that moved to 20 straight Saturday with a 13-to-0 verdict over Villanova. Navy, polished off by California IA to Z, is host to Columbia team that scored four touchdowns and then sat back and watched Rutgers get four before winning, 40 to %, Other Eastern attractions are Brown at Princeton, Lafayette at Pennsylvania. Cornell at Yale and Bucknell at Penn State.

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LSU leads 38–⁠13–⁠5 in 56 meetings, counting the 36 since this game.