Villanova at Boston College

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  Evening star, October 18, 1952, page 8 (results column)

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  Pitt 10 Tell il. Cadets Are Topflight Again; vi|Ianoya Wins Fifth NEW YORK, Oct. 18.-The ma tional collegiate football program, well studded with crucial games, should answer at least two questions today. Both concern teams fielded by the service academies. Army, defeated only once in three games. meets Pittsburgh, surprise conqueror of Notre Dame, at West Point in q game that should answer the question whether the Cadets have returned to footballs top fight. Navy. unbeaten in three games, clashes at College Park with all conquering Maryland (4–⁠0). The question here is whether the Middies are strong enough to extend their longest winning streak in seven years. Pitt Slight Choice. Of their three point win over, Notre Dame. the Panthers are rated a slight favorite to turn back the Cadets. who thumped Dartmouth a week ago to jump back into the gridiron linrelight. Maryland, ranked No. 2 ma tionally and unbeaten in the last 19 games, is a solid choice over the Middies. but stranger things have happened. In addition to the Navy–Maryland affair. three other major pairings involved undefeatedI teams. The Big Seven conference has a showdown with defending cham pion Oklahoma (2-0-D tanglingl with the No. contender, Kansas (4-O at Lawrence, Kans. The Sooners are given the edge despite the fine work displayed in the Kansas backfield by Gil Reich, former Army ace. Big Battle on Coast. The first pivotal battle for the Pacific Coast Conference title and the Rose Bowl assignment matches Stanford’s T-geared In dians (4-O and the single-winged Uclans of UCLA, also with a 40 record. Nebraska (4-O brings it’s spot less record, minus Bob Reynolds, East to do battle at State College, Pa, against the unbeaten but once-tied Penn State. Syracuse, another unbeaten Eastern eleven in college competiton, travels to East Lansing, Mich, with hopes of swapping the 18-game winning streak of Michigan State, the Nations top ranking team. From television viewpoint, the game of the week is Cornell-Yale at New Haven. It will be televised nationally. It was blacked out in the Washington. D. c., area when the NCAA granted permission for local telecast of the Navy–Maryland game. VillanOva Wins Again. In last nights top games Villa nova’S unbeaten team won its fifth straight by beating Boston College, 28–⁠7; Miami FlaD crushed Richmond, 41–⁠6: Davidson nipped Presbyterian. 1912, and Furman and The Citadel played “a TT tie. Gene Filipski set up two of Villanova’S four touchdowns. Harry Mallio spanked the drive of the twice-beaten Miami Hurricanes while little Jimmy Thacker scored both of Davidson’s touch downs. Outside of Navy–Maryland the South top scrap today figures to be the neighborhood battle between Alabama and Tennessee. Georgia Tech, favorite to take the Southeastern Conference title, meets weak Auburn and Duke, apparent powerhouse of the South ern Conference. plays North Carolima State. Virginia, ranking Southern independent, shouldn’t be troubled by VMI. Purdue, the Big Ten leader with a Pol record, heads into trouble with Notre Dame (1-1-D. Ohio State takes on winless but threat ening Washington State in an in tersectional contest at Columbus.

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Boston College leads 27–⁠14–⁠1 in 42 meetings, counting the 28 since this game.