Michigan vs. USC

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  Evening star, January 3, 1948, page 11

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  New Poll 10 Be Taken On Irish, Wolverines NEW YORK, Jan. 3.-The Asso. eiated Press is polling sports ed. tors OF It’s member papers through out the country to help settle the argument as to which Is the better football team-Michigan or Notre Dame The APPS final poll Of the TOP 10 teams, released December 8 at the conclusion of the regulation season, resulted in Notre Dame win ming first place with 1,410 points Michigan was second with 1929 While the latest poll-which will be released to afternoon papers OF next Tuesday-will not supersede the regular season-end poll, it is intended to serve as a final summing up of opinion on the two teams. Each paper is to ballot on which team it likes-as of now-Michigan or Notre Dame-as result of Mich igan’s 49–⁠0 Rose Bowl victory over Southern California. Notre Dame beat U. S. c., 38–⁠7. in the final game of the regulation season on which the last previous AP poll was taken. Returns so far received indicate that voting in this latest poll Is likely to be the heaviest ever recorded

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  The Daily Alaska empire, January 3, 1948, page 5

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  MICHIGAN PLAYED BUM GAME IN ROSE B0WI, SAYS HARMON LOS ANGELES, Jan. 5.-tR- It may come as a horrible bit Of post mortem information to the TrojanS of Southern California but Mich igan players insist they played their worst game of the season and that coach Fritz Crisler didn’t come anywhere near emptying his bag cf gridiron Abracadabra. Authority for this is famous veteran of the football wars, whose number “98” streaked to glory for Michigan in 1939-39 and now has been honorably retired by the Wolverines. No” said Tommy Harmon, T wasn’t surprised at the 49–⁠0 score ill the Rose Bowl, but a lot of the players were at my side after the game and everyone told me they played their worst game of the sea- son.”

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  The Wrangell sentinel, Alaska, January 2, 1948, page 1

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  MICHIGAN WOLVERINES SNOW UNDER use IN ROSE BOWL YESTERDAY The Michigan University foot ball squad sparked by All-Ameri- can Bob Chappius, yesterday de- feated the Trojans of the Univer- sity of Southern California by one of the alrgest scores ever made in Tournament of Roses football classic 49 to 0. This was the first bowl game Michigan had played since the first game of the of the largest scores ever made in series when the Wolverines de- feated Stanford by the same score -49 to 0.

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USC leads 7–⁠5 in 12 meetings, counting the 11 since this game.