Virginia Tech vs. VMI

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  Evening star, November 28, 1947, page 54 (results column)

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  Kansas Is Selected For Orange, Texas For Sugar Bowl MIAMI, Fla, Nov. 28.-The Orange Bowl Committee today announced selection of the University of Kan sas, with seven wins, two ties and no defeats, as one team to play In the Orange Bowl classic here New Year Day. NEW YORK, Nov. % lP.-Traditional Thanksgiving Day college football clashes produced only one postseason bowl principal-Texas getting the nod for the Sugar show at New Orleans-but by tomorrow night most of the New Year Day performers were expected to be cast. The Texas Longhorns’ 1918 vic tory over Texas A. and NJ yesterday brought them an immediate invitaton to join Alabama in the Sugar Bowl, the Crimson Tide having accepted last Saturday. Thus the stage was set for January l duel between two Of the outstanding teams in the Southwest and Southeastern Conferences and matching of two great passing SEN sations and candidates for ALL America honors-Texas’ Bobby Layne and ‘Bama’s Harry Gilmer With Michigan and Southern California already picked for the Rose Bowl and Southern Methodist and Penn State named as opponents for the Cotton Bowl, Miami’s Orange Bowl remained the only vacancy on the New Year Day card of major post-season contests. Several choice battles in the South tomorrow are expected to provide the other Orange Bowl team, with the sponsors likely to be watching the North Carolina Virginia, Georgia–Tech, Mississippi Mississippi State, Oklahoma A. and M. and Rice-Baylor battles for a clue. No bowl bids were at stake when Penn met Cornell in their traditional Ivy League clash at Philadelphia S Franklin Field yesterday, but the Quakers had the incentive of producing their first unbeaten season in 80 years-and they did it with comparative ease. A crowd of 78,205 saw the Quakers steal the Big Reds aerial thunder and emerge with a 21–⁠0 verdict. In another tradition-bound East ern game, Rutgers defeated Brown 27–⁠20 to wind up the Scarlet’s best season in long history. William and Mary, already tabled as one-half of the Dixie Bowl at Birmingham. BANKED Richmond $50, to clinch the Southern Confer ence championship. The largest crowd in the States football history 00O-turned out at Roanoke to see Virginia Military Institute beat Virginia Tech, 28–⁠14. Other games saw an underdog South Carolina eleven upending Wake Forest, 60, and North Texas State 14–⁠7 victor over Chat tanooga.

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.

Virginia Tech leads 47–⁠23–⁠5 in 75 meetings, counting the 37 since this game.