Virginia at Princeton

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  Evening star, Washington, D.C., October 31, 1948, page 1

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  Princeton Nails Virginia, 55–⁠74, With Its Top Score Since “a unyielding. Ed Mead and John McKenna battled and corked Virginia’s backs at the TANKS as care fully as winery workers, and the secondary knocked down all but three Of 10 passes. Truly it was a black-letter day for the losers. Princeton not only steamrolled the visitors but added q touch of deception here and there to the I’M restrained delight of its partisans> Keep Cavaliers Confused. 1t sent George Sella high-tailing aroung end for touchdowns on two smartly. executed reverse plays, for example. and had Virginia bamboozled with half-spinners and hand-offs behind the line of scrimmage. The Tigers picked up 361 yards on the ground-204 in the first half and added 1873 yards on passes to dominate the game camplete. Only once were they forced to punt. + Virginia, taking to the air in desperation as the score mounted and time began to run out, had three passes intercepted in I the final period. It simply proved that when the Cavaliers luck went back it went whole hog. Vic Rizzi, a guard grabbed partially blocked pass and lugged it II for a Princeton score, and Bill Collins latched onto another for a 47-yard scoring jaunt George Chandler collected an other on the Virginia 22-yard line and Weber completed the march by crashing over from the 1-foot line. Gill saved Virginia from a white wash when he exploded off tackle Immediately following a kickoff and raced IS yards-cutrunnine Chandler-for the score. Tho Cavaliers struck quickly again, after getting the ball on a punt, ana ii (See PRINCETON. Page B-30T

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  The Daily Alaska empire, November 1, 1948, page 6 (results column)

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  FOOTBALL l SCORES Final scores of leading football games played over the weekend are as follows stanford 20; Washington 0. St. Mary’s IS; Oregon IA. UCLA 27; Nebraska 15. Miss State 0; Tulane g. California IS; USC ‘. Montana State IA; Idaho s. 20. Colorado s. 34; Colorado c. 2. Michigan s 46; Oregon c. 21. Idaho IA; Washington s. 19. Utah IA; Colorado F. Santa Clara 25; San Francisco 13 Dayton T; Xavier o. Bowdoin IS; Bates. 12. Virginia 14; Princeton 55. Georgia Tech 19; Duke 2. Virginia Tech T; Army 49. Michigan 28; Illinois 20. Penn State 32; Colgate 13. Oklahoma 33; Iowa State 6. Arkansas 28; Texas AM 6. Mississippi 0; Tulane 9. Drake 45 Kansas State 20. Brown 20; Rutgers 6. Williams T; Union 19 Notre Dame Al; Navy ‘. G. Washington IA; Lafayette 33. Washington-Lee T; Penn 40. Hcly Cross 13; Harvard 20. Duquesene 13; Ohio U IA. Cornell 20; Columbia 13. Syracuse T; Boston U 12. s. Carolina 12; w. Virginia 35. N. Carolina s 13; Wake Forest 34. Davidson 6; V M 33 Florida 32; Thurman IA. North Carolina IA; Tennessee T. Washington-Jeff. l9; Car. T. 2. Pittsburgh 20; Reserve O. Kentucky 28; Cincinnati T. Akron 20; Wooster G. New York U 21; Lehigh 20. Indiana ‘; Minnesota 30. Ohio State T; Northwestern 21. Georgia 35; Alabama 0. Wisconsin IS; Iowa 19. SMU 21; Texas 6. Okla. AM T. Kansas 13 Missouri 4; Kansas State 2.

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Princeton leads 9–⁠1–⁠1 in 11 meetings.