Auburn at Tulane

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  Evening star, October 24, 1948, page 41

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  Tulane Plays Poorly, But Finally Crushes Crippled Auburn, 21.t NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 23.-Tulanes Green Wave, fat and ragged, wore down and overpowered a crippled but aggressive Auburn football team, 21–⁠6, before $4,000 spectators today. go Although Tulane was favored by four touchdowns, it was not until the last six minutes that the Wave put the game on ice on two, breaks followed by touchdown sprints by Sub Halfback George Kinek. Tulane Backs Eddie Price and Jimmy Glisson ran for repeated gains but fumbles, dropped passes and penalties at crucial moments nullif1ed the attack. Auburn got its scoring chance midway in the third period when Denvard Smell recovered q tumble for Auburn on the Tulane 23. Travis Tidwell, Auburn’s injured star, completed a fourth down pass to the five-yard line. Russell Inman hit the line three times for the remanning distance. After a scoreless first half, Tulane opened the third period with a 53-yard scoring drive. Price cir cled left end for the last Is yards. Late in the final period a poor Auburn punt gave Tulane the ball on the Tiger SO. Kinek, 19-year -old sophomore from Allentown. Pa, broke through right tackle for 80 yards and q touchdown. A few minutes afterward, Kinek ran 10 yards around left end for another score. AUBURN. Left End-Russell. Willet Fasen. Lett Tackie-Autrey’ Evangeliste. Brim- Left Guard-cannon. Lambert, Wise. Center-Herring, Barton, Douglas. Right Guard-Moore, Mantrone. Nc Right Tackle--Adcoek, Smell. Bailey. Right End-Waddail, Pybufn, Weaver. Que k-McDaniel. Langnor, Left H.lfbsck-pelfrey. Tidwen. Risht Halfback-Wallis, D. Flournoy, Fuiiback-Ban, 1nman. TULANE. Left End-Patridge, Shefiel Harper. Left Tackle-Lee Druen, Joyce. Left Guard-Brown. Franz, Villars. Rish Guard-Doyle ,Headrick. Right Tackle-Rogas, Bounds. Right End-O’Brien, Watkins, Riggs. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, Ernst, Bonar. Left Halfback-Jones. Waller, Kinek. Right Halfback – Svoboda, Glisson, Sikora, PratS. PulbscE – Hickman, Hahn. Bienz, Maxwell. Auburn O 6 o. 9 Tulane - 0 o z 14–⁠21 Auburn scoring: Touchdown-Inman. Tulane scoring: Touchdown – Price. Kinek (2). Points after touchdown Shefield (3), placement.

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Tulane leads 17–⁠15–⁠6 in 38 meetings, counting the nine since this game.