Ohio State at Pittsburgh

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  The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, October 27, 1947, page 3 (results column)

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  MANY Up5ETS ON GRIDIR0N 0NSATURDAY Big Surprise Is Columbia s 21–⁠20 Defeat of Army --0ther Turnovers NEW YORK, Oct. 27.-tR-You could count the major victorious football teams on the fingers of your two hands today and if you try the same calculation after the season passes the halfway mark next Saturday there probably will be a diget or two that won’t even be put to use The biggest shock of last weeks wave of surprises was Columbia’s s 2l-20 triumph over Army, team that had gone through 32 games since l943 without knowing the sting of defeat. California, Baylor, Wake Forest and West Virginia were hauled rudely from the all-victorious ranks and Illinois, unbeaten but once tied, saw it’s hopes for another Big Nine title all but disappear in a l4–⁠7 loss to Purdue. Both Illinois and Baylor were the victims of clear-cut upsets, as were i, such iavorites as Harvard, Indiana, , Mississippi, Ohio State and Okla homa A and M. 1 Have Perfect Scores Out of the wreckage, Texas. Mi chigan Notre Dame. Georgia Tech Pennsylvania Penn State, Southern , Methodist, Utah and Virginia em- erged as the only major outfits still , owning perfect marks, while Duke and Southern California remained | undefeated but once-tied. That list is due for further trim i ming Saturday when Texas, which 1 blanked Rice, 12–⁠0, collides with l Southern Methodist, TO- winner { over UCLA, at Dallas; and Duke i which ended Wake Forests dreams l3–⁠6, invades Georgia Tech, 38–⁠0 winner over The Citadel /, Michigan squeaked past Minne- sota and will catch Illinois on the rebound Saturday /at Champaign Metre Dame, which made it four ! straight with a 2l-0 conquest of Iowa, takes on Navy. Northwestern kuoyed by a 7–⁠6 win over Indiana entertains Wisconsin, while Iowa goes to Purdue and Indiana to Ohio State for other Big Nine tus- sles. Pittsburgh, 12–⁠0 upsetter of Ohio i State, inVadeS Minnesota. In Ivy League l Columbia returns ot Ivy League play by visiting Cornell, which lick ed Princeton, 28–⁠21, with Pennsyl- vania, which kept it’s record clean by shutting out Navy. 2l-0, going to i Princeton and Dartmouth to Har- ! yard for other Ivy League frays. Inside the southeastern confer ! ence, Alabama, fresh from 1–⁠7 ! win over Georgia, will be at Ken lucky, 7–⁠6 winner over Michigan i State; Auburn at Vanderbilt, Loui- siana State at Mississippi and Mis- sissippi State at Tulane. 1 Virginia stakes it’s winning streak against invading Richmond, while West Virginia invades Maryland and Wake Forrest goes to William and Mary for other Dixie highlights. ! Arkansas, which surprised Missis- sippi, 1914. returns to the South , west Conference to entertain Texas , A and M. the team that snapped 8 | three~2ame losing streak in stop i ping Baylor, 24–⁠0, and Texas Chris l ton, 20–⁠7 winner over Oklahoma goes to Baylor for another league tilt. ] Southern California, now the Pa cific Coast Conference favorite on the strength of it’s 39-l4 wallopine of California, will invade Washing ton, 25–⁠0 conqueror of Stanford. 1 -o>--

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Ohio State leads 19–⁠5–⁠1 in 25 meetings, counting the 13 since this game.