Missouri at Duke

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  The Wilmington morning star, North Carolina, November 9, 1947, page 1

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  Devils DaZZled By Tigers, 28–⁠7 DURHAM, Nov. S.-UH-Missouri’s ball-hiding backfield beat a path around Dukes ends and clicked with passes over it’s cropping secondary to run up a singing % to 7 upset victory, the biggest margin ever scored over a Blue Devil team coached by Wallace Wade. A crowd of 10000 watched Coach Don Faurot’s T-formation terrors flip and juggle the ball past the bewildered Duke detenders, The undermining Missourians set up one touchdown with later ais to halfbacks Dick Braznell and Howard Bonnet, and gained huge yardage on passes to 30 pound end Mel Sheehan. Dukes sole score came on an end sweep by skittering tailback George Clark, but otherwise the Duke team stood out only from ‘ackle to tackle against the Misouri caravan. Missouri had to stop a Duke drive in the first period, hating the Blue Devils on its five-yard line. Early in the second quar- Ter the Tigers got the ball on the Duke “a, and quarterback Bus Entsminger lateralled to Braznell. The speedy halfback fled to the IS. One play later a penalty moved the ball to the six and two plays gained a yard each, Then Braznell took a lateral on The four and scampered to a core. Fullback Bob DaWson’s lick was good. Clark took the kickoff on the Duke nine and returned it to the 20, where Duke started a surging 30-yard march for its only score. Rushing and passing by Clark md fullback Paul Stephan took the ball to the Missouri IA. From here Clark sailed around end behind a solid wall Of blockers 70 score standing up. Stephanzs Ick was good. Sheehan ran the Duke kickoff back from the 81 to his As. Later rs and ennd sweeps carried to The Duke 38, and a pass from EntSminger to Sheehan was tax en- on the 80 and downed on the q. Braznell hauled a lateral around end to the nine, where Entsminger lateralled to Bonnet and the latter raced down the ‘ldeline to score. Early in the third quarter Missouri took the ball on its own Is. Braznell swept 16 yards

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Missouri leads 1–⁠0 in their only meeting.