Davidson at Furman

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  Evening star, November 28, 1947, page 54

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  w. and N. CIinches Conference Title by Lacing Richmond RICHMOND, Va, Nov. 28.-The 1947 Southern Conference race Is over and the mythical crown rests at William and Mary for the second time in six years today. The Indians clinched the title easily as they chalked up their seventh win against a lone loss among Conference members by defeating Richmond, $50. The win was enough to put the Tribe safely in front of runner-up North Carolina’s mark of four wins and one loss. Stan Magdziak led the Dixie Bowl bound Indians to victory on his passing, aided by Joe Lex who fired one touchdown heave, and Jack Cloud who plunged for two tallies. Third place in the circuit went to South Carolina as the Gamecocks upended Wake Forest. 60. Bishop Strickland led the South Carolina ofense and provided the lone tally, racing over from the 3-yard line. The Wildcats Of Davidson eased Coach Bill Story’s departure from the conference by coming back to defeat Furman, 20–⁠6. Bert Anderton paced the Cats, passing to Jim Sifford for one score and DASH ing SO yards tor another. Story will leave the coaching profession to take supervisory job with the Norfolk school system next year. One of the biggest upsets of the year in conference play came when the Keydets of v. M. I. ignored a 14–⁠0 deficit at halftime and came back in the final two periods with four-touchdoWn blast that with cred the Gobblers of Virginia Tech, 28–⁠14. Beaten or tied for the last six weeks against variety Of COM petition, the Keydets roared to VIC tory on the talented arm Of Bobby Thomson. Thomason fired three touchdown passes in the amazing second half and Vince Ragunas drove folanother score as the favored Cob blers spent a befuddled 80 minutes Victory in that military classic Of the South” was sufficient to make the V. M. I. season successful regardless of their record.

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  The Wilmington morning star, November 28, 1947, page 5

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  WILDCATS DEFEAT FURMAN, 20 TO 6 GREENVILLE, S. c., Nov. 27 -W.D-The Wildcats of Davidson 1oared from behind today to humble Furman, 20 to 6, and close out their best season since 1888. Victory also was sweet fo,’ Wildcat coach Bill Story, who will leave shortly to take a supervisory post at a Norfolk Va, high school. Underdog Furman scored first after sustained driv. early in the second period. Halfback Lamon Moates bounded over from the 3 for the score, but the extra point try failed. Davidson retaliated with two touchdowns in quick succession Halfback Jim Sifford gathered in pass from Bert I lerso1 and loped 56 yards for the fl one. Moments later, Anderson picked dropped all and hula-hipped his way so yards for the second score. Buck Will liams converted. Just before th’ halftime, Sif. ford passed to Buddy Cheek who carried across. Williams conversion again was true.

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  The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, November 28, 1947, page 3 (results column)

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  FOOTBALL SCORES :, The following are scores cf loot ball games played on Thanksgiving Day: East Penn 21. Cornell 0. Rutgers 27; Brown 20. George Washington 40, Kings Point 0. Muhlenberg 57. Franklin & Mar shall T. Gettysburg 13, Albright l3 ttie). Midwest St Louis IA; Duquesne 13. Western Reserve 13; Case 12. Wichita 62; Colorado College 6. Miami (P) 38; Cincinnati 2. Southern Illinois 21; North Cen tral 0. Corn BowD. Hutchinson A; McCook ‘. tSalt BowD. South and Southwest William & Mary 35; Richmond O. VIII 28 Virginia Tech IA Newberry 6; Presbyterian 0. Davidson 20. Furman 6. South Carolina 6, Wake Forest o. North Texas State IA Chatta- Eooga ‘. Southwest Texas 32; Texas A85M 13. Arkansas 27; Tulsa l3. Oklahoma City Univ. 35 Vest ern Michigan T. Rockies and West Utah 40 Utah State IA Idaho State 25 Colorado Mines 0. Everett J. c. r. Yakima J c. 0. VaHport 31, Sand Point N A. s. 6. Montana fl. Colorado ARM ‘, Denver 26: Colorado 20. Fresno State 21; San Jose State 20. Pacific Lutheran 27; Southern Oregon 21 (Pear BowD. Porterville College 12; Fresno tCalif) States Jayvees 6. (Olive BoWp.

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.

Furman leads 33–⁠15 in 48 meetings, counting the 29 since this game.