LSU at Georgia Tech

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  Evening star, District of Columbia, October 15, 1951, page 17 (results column)

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  Standings AP Football Poll Certain to Be Shufed This Week 1erps Due 10 Advance, Along With Others Among Second Five Among Sec0nd Five BY the Assoeiaisd Press NEW YORK. Oct. l5.-Footbal coaches used to say a good offens. is the best defense. but that ole saw doesn’t seem to cut much woot in 1851 college football. Five major collage teams scoree three touchdowns each and still lost Saturday, while Washington State lost even though 1t scored five times in wild 1926 scramble won by California. In fact. a sur. vey Of 81 major college game. showed a majority Of the losine teams scored at least two touch. downs. Only three of the games ended in shutouts for the losers. And when all the figures were compiled. it was hard to see WHIT would lead the parade in the Asso. ciated Press weekly poll Of the Nations top 10 teams. Leaders Squeak Through. Michigan State. top-ranked las week just ahead Of California, like California had tough time In what figured to be an easy game and barely got past Marquette 20–⁠14. The powerful Spartans apparently suffering a letdown from their big game with Ohio State a week before. trailed 14–⁠6 in the fourth period, but managed to score twice, largely due to the passing of Quarterback AL Dorow The No. 8 and 4 teams. Ten nessee and Texas A. & M, rompeo to easy wins. and Notre Dame No. S. was upset by Southern Methodist, 27–⁠20. Since most of the second five turned in decisive victories, it’s probable the standings will be greatly shuffled when all the votes are In this week. Texas, No. 6, edged Oklahoma 81. breaking the Sooners’ three year hex over the Longhorns; IL linois. No. 2, toyed with Syracuse 41–⁠20; Georgia Tech, No. 8, whipped Louisiana State, 25–⁠7 and Maryland. No. 10. crushed Georgia with surprising power 43–⁠7. Ohio State. No. 9, had its second disappointing Saturday in a row was happy to come off with a 6–⁠6 tie against Wisconsin. Glory for Southwest. Much of the high-scoring high jinks came in the intersectional games. possibly because of the diff ficulties colleges have in scouting teams hundreds of miles away Alabama. like Notre Dame and Syracuse. scored three times only to lose to Villanova, 41-l8, on Fri day night. The Southwest came off with most Of the glory in the intersectional competition on victories by Southern Methodist, Texas and Rice. a 2l-14 winner over Navy. The Far West also scored with College Of the Pacific’s clear-cut 2l-7 beating Of Clemson. but the Midwest and South both had to be content with two wins and two losses. The East won two and lost four. while the Big Seven won one and lost two and the Skyline lost one. Good Ones This Week. Biggest upset of the day came Saturday night. when little Texas Tech completed a 1919 humping of the Southwest Conferences S Texas Christian. A Southern Conference surprise was William and Mary’s 7–⁠6 win over Wake Forest, while the same circuit had expected Duke to win by more than 27–⁠21 against North Carolina State. Next Saturdays program has another batch of attractive intersectional contests. plus a smattering of key conference games. San Francisco will travel 5000 miles to play Fordham in New York. Illinois, which came East for Syracuse, now goes West to play the University of Washington. villanova. looking more and more like the East’s top independent team. continues its Southern in vasion against Kentucky, which got back on the right track Saturday by whipping Mississippi State, 27–⁠0. after three straight losses. Michigan State travels to Penn State. Notre Dame to Pittsburgh, Nebraska to Minnesota and Navy to Northwestern. The undefeated Wildcats opened their Big Ten campaign Saturday by whipping Minnesota. 21–⁠7. Bears to Meet Trojans. Game of the day on the Pacific Coast pits the mighty California offense, which has rolled up 166 points in four games, against Southern California in a traditionally vigorous meeting which could decide the conference cham pionship. Kansas meets Oklahoma in a key Big Seven game, and Tennessee riding high with three straight takes on Alabama in what had been billed last August as one OF the games of the year. The Crimson Tides three straight losses have dimmed the luster of this one. but the red-shirted Ala bamans would like nothing better than spelling Tennessee’s perfect mark. Columbia, the only major unscored-on team in the country after Tennessee’s 42–⁠13 win over Chattanooga, faces a big Ivy League test against potentially powerful Pennsylvania, which dropped a 1877 decision to Prince f0n CofyYrdou

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Georgia Tech leads 12–⁠7 in 19 meetings, counting the 10 since this game.