Auburn at Tulane

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  Evening star, October 31, 1947, page 51

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  Sewanee Comes Back On Grid as Unbeaten, Unscore;d0 Team NASHVILLE, Tenn, Oct. 31.-The Purple Tigers from sewanee. Tenn, are back in the front parlor again after lying on the doormat for 10 these many years. Along with Montclair, N. j., Teachers, Sewanee, is one of the two unbeaten, unscored-on football teams in the country. This years Sewanee team prob ably Is as near simon pure as any in the Nation, for the University Of the South has no athletic scholar ships and does not subsidize foot bali players. 1t has played no name” teams, but with total enrollment of only 500, has as formidable a football record as can be found in Dixie. In 1899, eight years after the Uni versity of the South had organized a. grid team under Coach F. G.. Sweat, an alumnus of Bowdoin Col lege at Brunswick, Me-, the Purple Tigers rode high. wide and hand some. They smacked over Louisiana State, Texas, Tulane, Mississippi and Texas A. and M. on consecutive days-scoring 81 points while all five opponents were held scoreless. Played to Great Record. That year also saw them defeat Tennessee, Auburn. North Carolina, Georgia, Georgia Tech, Cumberland and Southwestern, for season total of 322 points against 10 for all opponents. In the fall of 1921 the Tigers massacred Rice, 1920, but then came a steady decline in the uni versitys football fortunes as the game became a big business and, as present Athletic Director Gordon Clark puts it, “the other teams got too good for U.s.” After losing IS games in a row in 1878 and going winless in “a contests, the university withdrew from the Southern Conference. Football at the university now is on the same financial basis as the English department, and the uni versity underwrites its expenses. Every one at Sewanee who wishes may play football, and Win White, the best coach the university can hire, is provided to train aspiring gridders. There Is no dearth OF applicants, with eight States represented on this years squad OF 56. School Spirit Still High. Nine years after withdrawing from the Southern Conference, Clark says there are no regrets at Sewanee. The Purple Tigers take on Mary vile College (Tenn.) this week. but according to Clark school spirit Is running strong and bonflres leap Just as high as when they smacked down the mightest machines in the South. Their record this year includes a scoreless tie with Presbyterian College, a 40 to 0 defeat Of Kenyon College, “A to o win over Mississippi College and 8 to 0 defeat of South western.

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  The Wilmington morning star, North Carolina, October 26, 1947, page 1

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  WAVE ROLLS OVER AUBURN, 400 NEW ORLEANS Oct. 2s- U.D-Tulan’s revanped Green Wave coasted to an easy 40 to 0 victory over. a listless, help less Auburn team which couldn’t click on offense or de- Tense here today. Some 10000 bored fans saw an alert Tulane backfield find a weak hole in the left side OF the Auburn line early in the game and barge through for long gains. Auburn desperately called on Travis Tidwell, the plucky quarterback who has been playing all season with a broken leg, to spark a face-saving passing attack, but .Tidwel] could never find a receiver. Tulane ends broke through the Auburn line to smear the hob bling Tidwell, the nations lead ing ground gamer last year, for long losses. Auburn’s only redemption came from the strong right foot of Bobby Weaver, who bested Tulane’s Leonard Finley in a punting duel dur. ing the first period. Tulane didn’t have to kick much in the remaining periods. Tulane opened the game with a 74-yard touchdown drive or eight plays, with Ed Price anc Johnny Campora breaking through for first-down gains Then Campora stepped to the Auburn %. Price went aroune left end for. a touchdown be hind perfect blocking. Tulane started another poten tial touchdown drive, but Err skine Russell bounced on DlcE Hoot’s tumble on the Auburn IS to end the threat at tina time

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Tulane leads 17–⁠15–⁠6 in 38 meetings, counting the 10 since this game.