Michigan at Illinois

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  The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, November 9, 1951, page 6

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  Bowl Dope; Squads Are Lining Up NEW YORK, Nov. 9-sR-Major g. bowl scouts will have their binocu- lars trained on half dozen stadia tomorrow but they’ll painstakingly avoid one of the big football battles of the day. That’s the clash at East Lansing. Mich, between unbeaten, united Michigan State. fifth ranked na- sionally, and once-defeated Notre Dame, bounding back toward its former heights. Neither is bowl fodder. As q member of the Big Ten not yet lble to partakc of the western con- rerence’s Rose Bowl gravy, Michigan State is ineligible. The fighting Irish simply shun post-season ac- tivity. But elsewhere you’ll find the pieces gradually falling into place in the giant jig-saw puzzle that makes up the Jan bowl program Feature games in this respect are at Los Angeles, where all-winning Stanford tackles once-defeated Southern California for the almost certain Rose Bowl plum. and at Austin, Tex, where Texas and Bay Tor vie to keep their post-season aspirations alive. AS of this moment, the major bowl games stack up like this: Rose Bowl = Illinois (6–⁠0 vs. Stanford (7–⁠0) or Southern Cali fornia CID. Sugar Bowl = Maryland (6–⁠0) vs. Tennessee (6-O. Cotton Bowl = Texas Christian (5–⁠2) or Texas t6-D vs. Tennessee or Georgia Tech (6-0-D. Orange Bowl = Georgia Tech vs. one of the top Southwest teams (TCU, Baylor or Texas). A crowd of 90,00O is expected to turn out at Los Angeles to witness the battle of the western titans. If Stanford prevails, it must yet take the measure of Oregon State and California for perfect league mark. Southern Cal, whose only blot is 21–⁠17 >>defeat handed it’s third stringers by Camp Pendleton, has UCLA and Notre Dame remaining

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  Evening star, District of Columbia, November 4, 1951, page 50

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  Illinois Touchdown In Last IS Seconds Beats Michigan, 10 CHAMPAIGN, H.. Nov. 3.-Rose Bowl hopeful Illinois scored in the final 65 seconds on a quick 8-yard pass to defeat rugged Michigan. TO, in a snow storm before a capacity crowd of 71,119 in Memorial Stadium today. The Illini’s victory strike, cap ping an 83-yard march, came on a toss from Quarterback Tom

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Michigan leads 72–⁠24–⁠2 in 98 meetings, counting the 61 since this game.