Columbia at Pennsylvania

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  Evening star, District of Columbia, October 19, 1947, page 43

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  Penn Blasts Columbia In 34–⁠14 Victory as 10000 Fans Watch PHILADELPHIA. Oct 13.-Penn. ylvania’s big and bruising Quakers rnanhandled the Columbia Lions “a to IA, In sweltering weather today rolling up a $50 lead early in the second quarter and then holding off a spirited second-half Colum. hja rally before 10000 fans at Frank. lin Field. For time in the third quarter the Columbia partisans in the shirt sleeved crowd had their hopes. In a matter of minutes the Light Blue struck twice for touchdowns-the first scores against Penn this season-and it looked as If the panic might be on. But the ponderous Quakers steadied and stopped the Lions passing attack, and then took charge again and smashed to their fifth and conclusive touchdown in the final period. Though he scored only once, Tony Minisi was the big man on the field His terrific running and his bullet southpaw passes wrecked Columbia chances in the one-sided first quar-. ter, and his kickoff returns put then in the hole time after time. Ir successive times the quaker ace dashed kickoffs back 80, 40 and 4s yards. Minisi Scores for Penn. 9Pern struck quickly after Minis drove back 80 yards. Aided by q 22-yard aerial from Minisi to Art L.ttleton. the Red and Blue drove tc the eight-yard line in six plays Minisi then dropped back to pass again. but saw no receiver ano circled his own left end for the score Ed Lawless placekicked the first ol four straight extra points. Three minutes later Charles Bed. mark, Penn center. intercepted s Rossides’ pass and hustled it bach to Columbia’s a. Bob Deubel smashed out a first down on th’ three, and Fullback Bill Luongt plunged over. The next time they got the bal the Quakers went 43 yeards in fiv’ plays, including a 24-yard dash b. Deuber around end. The SCORING play was a 6-yard pass from Deube to Bob Sponaugle. Rossides Pass Intercepted. Three scores behind and the frs quarter not yet gone, the Lions thel showed their first offensive sparl when Rossides broke around HI left end and tightroped up the side line for 42 yards. On the next play however, Penn intercepted a Ros sides pass, and, after being set bacl by a clipping penalty, started on s3-yard march to their fourtl marker. Ray Dooney, substitute Penn fullback, drove across from the 4. Kusserow gave the Lions thei first score midway in the thir’ period, when he intercepted a pas by Bob Evans and got loose for 6 yards down the sideline without be ing touched. Coach Lou Little scrappers. thus encouraged. drov So yards for another score the mex time they got the ball. A 12-yar’ throw from Rossides to Bill SwiacR provided the tally. Most of the closing quarter wa played in Columbia territory.

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  The Wilmington morning star, North Carolina, October 18, 1947, page 1 (results column)

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  WILDCATS TRAMPLE ECTC. SO TO o Most Teams Play Loop Tits college Football Saturday Roundup | Saturday Roundup NEW YORK, Oct. II IN The nations leading college football tear.s are playing in their own leagues this week aft er the customary early season encounters with opponents from distant points. And, strangely enough, the indications are that most Of them will find their tasks fairly easy. From the East’s Ivy League to the Pacific Coast Conference, the games that get the top bill ing involve members of the same circuit. But in almost every case the team that has been built up as a coming champ encounters a rival whose reputation already has been slightly furnished. The most notable exceptions probably are Vanderbilt VS. Kentucky, a meeting of two sur prise teams, and Kansas VS.. Oklahoma with the Texas–Arkansas tussle at Memphis, Tenn, running close behind. Vanderbilt wasn’t given much of a tumble in preseason ratings of the Southeastern Conference, but it already has whipped Northwestern, Ala bama and Mississippi and shares the Conference lead with equally = unher aided Georgia Tech. Kentucky, supposedly building for the future, dropped it’s opener to Mississippi then popped up with three straight victories, including a 26–⁠0 decision over Georgia. Kansas and Oklahoma were named as probable contenders for the Big Six tit’e . ‘hev still are although Oklahoma took a 34–⁠14 humping from Tex as last week md Kansas played a scoreless opener against Tex as Christian. Texas, riding high after four decisive victories over non-conference foes, plays it’s first league game against Arkansas, which was figured as Rice’s leading rival for the title before the season began. Arkansas dropped it’s first conference game to the surprising Baylor Bears last week. On the other side, mighty Michigan, chosen by an over whelming vote as the nations No. l team this week, starts it’s bid for the Big Nine Title against twice-beaten Northwest ern. Illinois, the Rose Bowl champ, played a scoreless tie against Army last week and now encounters a victorious but defensively weak Minnesota team. Notre Dame, the other Midwestern powerhouse, takes on Nebraska, which has lost twice. The East’s Big Three, Army, Pennsylvania and Penn State, all should have it easy. Army seeks its 32nd straight game without a loss against Virginia Tech; Penn meets beaten and injury-riddled Columbia and Penn State faces a weak SYRIA cuse club. Yale, after two Ivy League triumphs, faces Wisconsin, which took a drubbing from California. In the south, unbeaten Georgia Tech plays Auburn and Will liam and Mary, southern con ference leader, NETS North Car DINA, the preseason favorite which has had nothing but trou- BILE, climaxed by the still I’M settled question of Charley JUS tees eligibility. Alabama VS.. Tennessee, ordinarily one of the seasons big games, is just an other. clash between twice-beaten- teams. California, which bounced up from nowhere to become the Pacific Coast Conference favorite, meets Washington State in its first league game. The Cougars haven’t beaten anyone by Idaho. Last years winner, U. C.L.A., meets Stanford and highly-regarded Southern Cali fornia plays Oregon State. Utah, top team in the Rocky Mountain Big Seven, faces Den yer. Other major games from coast to coast include Navy Cornell, Holy Cross-Harvard, Brown = Dartmouth, Colgate Princeton and Purdue-Boston University in the East; Mississippi-Tulane, Florida = North Carolina State, Duke-M Maryland, Washington and Lee-Virginia and Duquesne Mississippi State in the South; Iowa-Ohio State, Pittsburgh : Indiana, Kansas ~State-Missouri, Iowa State Michigan State and San Fran cisco-Marquette in the Mid

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Pennsylvania leads 61–⁠22–⁠1 in 84 meetings, counting the 54 since this game.