Columbia at Cornell

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  The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, November 5, 1951, page 6

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  Snow and Mud Made Saturday Games Tough NEW YORK, Nov. 5-sRt-Hang- ing out Mondays football wash, anc you’d better hang it in the cellai if the weather is anything like Saturdays. It was a great day for televisior and the California and Florida Chambers of Commerce, but that’s small consolation to midwestern and eastern fans trying to recoup from the battle with the elements They used bulldozers. to clear off six inches of snow at Ithaca, NY, but Cornell Coach Lefty James was ready to shovel it back on the field again after the Big Red blew one to Columbia, 21–⁠20 what hurt the most was the fact that Colum- bia also edged Cornell, 20-l9 last year. The longest slide since the World Series was recorded at Franklin Field when Eddie Bell of Penn dived after Charlie Sumner as the Will liam and Mary speedster flashed to a touchdown on an 89-yard run ... Bell left his feet at the 10-yard line, landed in the goo and slid slowly across the line in Summers wake. Illinois and Southern California, who hope they’ll meet in the Rose Bowl next Jan. l, must have thought they were in the florists deep freeze yesterday. The Illini battled two inches of snow, 29-degree weather, a 45-mile per hour wind and the Michigan football team and they won out, TO :. The TroJans, wishing they were back in Califor- mia. were just as uncomfortable in Yankee Stadium here, but the op- position was less formidable. Pat Cannamela, the Trojans great linebacker. probably set some sort of record when he travelled 5000 miles to appear before the nome” folks Pats home is in New London, Conn.

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Cornell leads 52–⁠36–⁠3 in 91 meetings, counting the 52 since this game.