William & Mary at Richmond

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

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  k ~ Q :; >3 2 2 G8a xA &z2 Sage Cels Sci Tor Biz Bowl Games ditional Thanksgiving Day college football clashes produced only onS post-saason bowl principal-TeXas getting the nod for the Sugal Show at New Orleans-but by to- morrow night most of the New Years Day performers are expect ed to be cast. The Texas Longhorns’ 32–⁠1s victory over Texas ARM yesterday brought them an immediate invita- tion to join Alabama in the Sugar Bowl, the Crimson Tide having accepted last Saturday. Thus the stage was set for 8 January 1 duel between two o1 the outstanding teams in the Southwest and Southeastern con- ferences and a matching of two great passing sensations and can didates for All-America honors 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 oppon- ents for the Cotton Bowl, Miami s Orange Bowl remained the only vacancy on the New Years Day card of major post-season contests. Several choice battles in the south tomorrow are expected to provide one of both of the Orange Bowl duelists, with the sponsors likely to be watching the North Carolina Virginia, Georgia Tech, Mississippi Mississippi State, Oklahoma Oklahoma A&M, and Rice Baylor battle for a clue. No bowl tids were at stake when Penn met Cornell in their tradi- tional Ivy League clash at Phila- delphias Franklin Field yesterday, but the Quakers had the incentive of producing their first unbeaten season in 39 years-and they did it with comparative ease. A crowd of 78205 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 a long history. An intersectional clash headed the midwest card. with St Louis shading Dequesne 14–⁠13. William & Mary, already tabbed as one half of the Dixie Bowl at Birmingham, blanked Richmond 35–⁠0 to clinch the Southern Con- ference championship. The larg- est crowd in the states football history-29, ,000-turned out at ROA to see Virginia Military Institute beat Virginia Tech 28-l4 Arkansas Razorbacks hung up their first turkey day victory since 1941, turning back Tulsa 27- 13. Utah’s Redskins, champions of the Big Seven Conference, con- tinued unbeaten in the circuit by smashing the Utah State Aggles 4G-14. The runner-up Denver Pioneers, closed out a 55-year-old series with Colorado with a 26–⁠20 victory. Colorado, forsaklng the Biz Seven fer the Big Six, has erased Denver from all future sports battles The Bowl business has been so overdone that some of the spon- sors have moved their contests ahead of the customary January date, and yesterday saw a half- dozen of these minor post-season clashes. West Chester Teachers tPa9 de- feated Carson Newman cTenn) zo- 6 in the third annual Burley Bowl game at Johnson City, Tenn, be- fore a crowd of 10000. The Corn Bowl, a newcomer to the roster this year, drew $500 fans to Bloom ington, H., to see Southern Him ois beat North Central dll9 2l-o. Pacific Lutheran College edged Southern Oregon 27–⁠21 in the Pear Bowl at Medford, Ore. The Little 1 Rock Jaycees triumphed over the i Jaycees 31–⁠7 in the Coffee Bowl at Coffeyville, Kansas. At Lindsay, Calf, the Olive Bowl saw Porterville College a 12–⁠6 win her over the Fresno State Jaycees. !

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William & Mary leads 40–⁠39–⁠2 in 81 meetings, counting the 60 since this game.