Mississippi State at Tulane

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  Evening star, November 4, 1951, page 58

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  Tulane Beaten, 1O-7, BY Mississippi State NEW ORLEANS. Nov. 3.-Pete Polovina, substitute halfback kicked a fourth quarter field goal to give Mississippi State a 10–⁠7 victory over Tulane in a drah Southeastern Conference football game today. Matching two impotent offenses Tulane and Mississippi State stumbled and fumbled for almost -four full quarters before Polovina a Steubenville. Ohio, junior, broke the TT deadlock. Tulane scored in the second quarter after recovering a Maroon tumble on Mississippi States 10 Tulane quarterback Fred Dempsey passed to Halfback Ray Weidenbacher on the 10, and Weidenbacher dashed across for the Greenies’ lone score. Mississippi State scored immedlately afterward when Halfback Norman Duplain took the kickoff and raced beautifully IS yards for a touchdown. In the waning minutes Of the game Mississippi State drove from Tulane’s Al to the 6. On fourth down the Maroons elected to try for the field goal and Polovina kicked the goal to give the Maroons their second conference win. .....

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Mississippi State leads 30–⁠25–⁠1 in 56 meetings, counting the 27 since this game.