Wisconsin at Yale

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  Evening star, District of Columbia, October 21, 1947, page 19

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  Yale Deprived Of Score On Wisconsin, Yale Saws NEW LONDON, Conn, Oct. 21.- Head Coach Howard Odell of Yale, commenting on his teams 90 defeat at the hands Of Wisconsin last Saturday, expressed the opinion in an address at meeting of the Touch down Club here last night that Yale was deprived of a touchdown in the early part of the game. Odell was giving running COM mentary while showing motion pic lures of the game He asserted that a Wisconsin defender actually intercepted Yale forward pass on the Wisconsin 5-yard line and then kfumbled the ball while starting a runback. The pictures showed a Yale player recovering the ball behind the Wisconsin goal line. This, said Odell, should have been ruled touchdown. The officials ruled that it was an lncompleted forward pass and brought the ball back.

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  The Wilmington morning star, North Carolina, October 19, 1947, page 1

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  YaIe’s Win Streak Halted By Badgers NEW HAVEN, Conn.,, Oct. 10. -W.H-The Willy Wisconsin Bad gers blasted Yale from the I’M beaten ranks today with a SUR prise 9 to 0 victory that virtually wrecked the Eastern champion ship hopes of the Bulldogs, who couldn’t get going in the 80 degree heat before $4,000 fans. A field goal by Lisle Black bourn in the second period and a fourth period touchdown pass from Earl (Jug) Giracd to Jim Embach, gave the Badgers their margin of victory.

Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The text is the machine reading of the page, mistakes and all.

Yale leads 2–⁠1 in three meetings, counting the one since this game.