Army at Georgia Tech

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  Evening star, District of Columbia, November 10, 1952, page 78 (results column)

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  |Spartans and Irish Meet in Top Feature; |Terps Play Ole Miss NEW YORK. Nov. 10.-The seers were making hasty reyisions in then football prognostications today after Saturdays tidal wave Of upsets, and to say they still are lreeling from the reversals would be putting 1T mildly. Confer ence championships. which should be about settled, still can 60 any way, and, more important, the sponsors of the big New Years Day bowl games are gulping as pirins and hoping things follow the form that marked the first half of the season. The passing of Oklahoma and Villanova from the rapidly diminishing list of unbeaten teams resuited from the two biggest upsets. But Kansas. Penn State. Duke and Ohio State, all among the mighty, also fell. And Purdue and Mississippi didn’t add any prestige to their records. The Boilermakers could do no more than tie Minnesota, 14–⁠14, and Ole Miss sQueaked through to a 60 decision over Houston. Who then would have the nerve to predict the outcome of this weeks top attractions as the season heads toward the close? Tough Ones This Week. The big three-Michigan State. Maryland and Georgia Tech have been holding up, along with UCLA and Southern California. Maryland was idle Saturday. but the Spartans rolled over Indiana, 41–⁠14, and Georgia Tech dubbed Army. 45–⁠6. This week, though, they all face tough assignments. possibly their most rugged of the campaign. Biggie Munn’s Michigan Staters must entertain Notre Dame, the team that polished off feared Oklahoma, 27–⁠21. That it is too much to expect the Irish to pull off two surprises in a row goes without saying, but this is a team that is capable of giving the country’s No. l outfit an unpleasant Afternoon. So hard did the Irish apply the pressure Saturday that only three times was Oklahoma able to retain the ball for more than FIVE consecutive plays. The Sooners had only one sustained drive, that of 66 yards, that ended on the ‘Notre Dame IS in the fourth quarter. Maryland meets Mississippi in a battle of unbeaten teams. How ever, Mississippi has been tied twice, by Kentucky and Wander bilt. But this, too, is hungry” team-meaning it is hoping for. j a bowl bid. Maryland, barred from a post-season game unless the Southern Conference approves, naturally will rule the heavy ia vorite. Alabama Could Be Spoiler. Georgia Tech. already tapped for the Sugar Bowl, will go for its ninth straight triumph when it tangles with Alabama at At lanta. The Crimson Tide has protected itself into a bowl pos sibility with its I’ll record. and (See COLLEGE FOOTBALL. C-3o

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Georgia Tech leads 3–⁠1 in four meetings, counting the three since this game.