Georgia Tech at Duke

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  Evening star, November 6, 1952, page 70

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  ence and Big Ten champions. Dallas Cotton Bowl will have the Southwest Conference winner as host team. But the three confer ence races are far from settled, and nobody can say for sure at this date who’ll be defending conference honors January /. Orange Bowl Officials to Meet. The Orange Bowl at Miami will hold q committee meeting this week end and members refused to discuss any. possible teams until then. A spokesman commented, however, that November is an important month in football and we want to pick the best teams. Z” A rundown Of the top 10 teams shows that only one besides Georgia Tech. eighth-ranked Tennessee. Is eligible for a bowl bid. The Volunteers. who have appeared in many bowl games in past years, are still trying to live down an early season loss to Duke, which lost 28–⁠7. to Georgia Tech last Saturday. Michigan State. No. /, is a men, (See BOWI & Pare CAY

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  The Key West citizen, Florida, November 4, 1952, page 3 (results column)

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  SEC Sets Top Action Sat. RssocIafed Press Sports Writer Eight games-two of them slight ly faded intersectional affairs = viii be played this week by South eastern Conference football teams. Two and three years ago when the Georgia Tech5Army and the Georgia. Pennsylvania games were scheduled, they were supposed to be hot stuff. Since then lot of glamour has been knocked off. The Cribbing affair cut Army from a mighty power and the Cadets still are rebuilding. Penn hasn’t shown as strongly as expected. The 14–⁠7 loss to Penn State Saturday was a shock. And then there is, Georgia = undermined, crippled and playing schedule no team could be expected to navigate without beat ings. Georgia has lost three so far and doubtless more to come. The Tech.Army game is in At lanta and the Georgia. Penn game in Philadelphia. Both are Saturday afternoon. OF the four actors in the two In tended football melodramas, only Tech is living up to its advance billing. The Engineers are unbeaten-, united and apparently about to accept a bowl bid, probably to the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans. Other interconference games are Chattanooga Alabama at Tuscaloosa; Mississippi Houston at Houston, and Vanderbilt-Miami at Mi ami. Vandy’s game will be Friday night; Mississippi plays Saturday night, and Alabama Saturday aft ernoon. SEC games are Mississippi State at Auburn’s Homecoming, Tulane at Kentucky and Tennessee at Baton Rouge against L. S. U. Florida is idle but the Gators deserve a rest. Bob Woodruff S son and needs only six more to SCI son and need only six more to set an all-time Florida record. The 1852 output is tops for the SEC. After a weel; of rest Florida goes back to work against Tennessee, Miami and Kentucky. Last Saturday Florida got from behind a 40 lag against Auburn and won 31–⁠21. A solid round of victories over out of league teams last week end moved the SECS intersectional and interconference won-lost percent age to a fat TIA for the season. The mark is 24’ victories, seven defeats. Tech made the most notable contribution Saturday, a 28–⁠7 victory over unbeaten Duke. Tennessee Clipped in with a ALA slaughter Of North Carolina. Kentucky was supposed to lose to Miami but won instead, 29–⁠0. No one expected Vandy to win by any such 67–⁠7 scor, over Washington and Lee. But Bill Edwards hard working crew did the trick. Other scores were Alabama “a Georgia 10; Mississippi 2S L. S. U, 0, and Tulane “a Mississippi State 21.

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Georgia Tech leads 57–⁠35–⁠1 in 93 meetings, counting the 73 since this game.