Stanford at USC

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  The Wilmington morning star, North Carolina, November 11, 1947, page 9 (results column)

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  VA oOA1lllly LU- Jack, Notre Dame flashed a steady ground game that turned the Army flanks time and again for long gains. Some veteran writers who have been watching football for many season ranked the Notre Dame club as the best they ever saw. Many compared them with the great Irish teams Of other years. Despite the hoop-la surround ing the last meeting of the Cadets and Irish in the current series, Michigan attracted “a first place votes for its $50 romp through Indiana. The Wolverines, who led the pool during early season, head toward one of the toughest tests of their perfect record Saturday when they face an improving Wisconsin team which rocketed into ninth place by a 46–⁠14 rout of Iowa. Pennsylvania nosed out South ern Methodist for third place al though both continued unbeaten and united by respective wins over previously undefeated Virginia and the sub-par Texas Aggies. Seven writer’s tabled the Penn eleven for first place after its 1877 conquest of Virginia while two linked SMU for the No. spot off its 1870 win over the Aggies. The Quakers take their next-to. last hurdle Saturday when they entertain a subdued Army team which dropped out of the frs 10 for the first time in years. The Cadets were ranked 18th. Southern California, 14–⁠0 vic tors over stubborn Stanford clung to fifth place and drew five first place ballots while Georgia Tech continued in sixth position despite it’s close cal against Navy, 1914. The engineers’ clash with Alabama fig ures to be the best game in thu south this week. Texas surged into seventh pushing unbeaten-untied Penn State to eighth. The Longhorn thumped Baylor 28–⁠7. Penn Stat, which had to go hard in the mut to stop Temple, 10, face trouble ahead in Navy Saturday Wisconsin made the top 10 TO, the first time this season and ha. a chance to graduate into thu higher regions if it can upse Michigan. California regainet 10th place when Virginia sunl into the second division by bow ing to Penn after a close battle On the basis of point score Notre Dame had 1872 to Michi gan’s 1928 and the next club Penn, was over 300 points behind. The total vote, with points fig. ured on 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-l basis (first place votes in pa rentheses):

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Officially, USC leads 65–⁠34–⁠3; as played, 66–⁠33–⁠3 in the 102 games on file; the official count covers all 103 meetings, counting the 77 since this game.