Oregon State at Utah

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  The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, September 29, 1947, page 3

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  Unseis On Grid Lasf Saturday SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. z9.-lR Monday morning quarterback clubs buzzed Ike beehives today and small wonder with last week s upsets still stimulating mental fiipflors and this waekend’s Far Wes. football calendar providing bass for new speculation Seldom on the Pacific side has single Saturday t3en the date for three such surprising rever- sals as Califolnias 14–⁠7 win over Navy; Idaho’s 1o-l6 setback of Stanford and Utah’s 7–⁠6 decision over Oregon State College. Whether they are listed in order of importance is secondary to the refutation of the idiom Tt Can’t Happen Here It happenedl Reviewed in capsule form, Cali fornia proved better in the clutch es and outguessed Navy team making it’s first start Navy had preseason rating high up na- tionally and displayed the stuff to bear out the observation it should te tough to beat as the schedule progresses. Idaho lost on the statistical chart and won the ball game, its first over Stanford in the history of the two schools. Stanford, the prime favorite, led l3–⁠0 in the first period. Idaho plugged on to score touchdowns in the second, third and last quarters, meanwhile recovering five Of the seven fumbles charg2d against the Stanfords. During the fall training period Coast conference coaches who were polled selected Oregon State as the third strongest club in the league. Somebody must have forgot to tip off the University of Utah Utes or did they know? Anyhow, Utah pushed over a third quarter touchdown and con verted the vital extra point, in addition to outdoWning, outrush- ing and recovering four of favor ed Oregon States fumbles

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Oregon State leads 13–⁠12–⁠1 in 26 meetings, counting the 24 since this game.