Ohio State at Illinois

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  Evening star, District of Columbia, November 16, 1952, page 70

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  Ohio State Knocks Pass-Happy Illinois Down by II 10 7 CHAMPAIGN, ILL.,, Nov. Is. - Ohio State, combining smashing runs with aerial thrusts, shot pass-happy Illinois from the clouds q to 7 today. Tommy O’Connell’s throwing for the IL lini shattered three Big Ten rec ords. Ohio State intercepted six of Tommy’s tosses and used two of them to touch off touchdown surges. Two other Buckeye scores stemmed from recoveries of two fumbles. Ohio State, a seven-point underdog, blasted 20 points in the third period to crack a TT stale mate and went on to its fourth Big Ten football triumph in six games. Bort0n’s Deception Good. John Borton, the Buckeyes split-T quarterback, mixed his passing with a stampede of ground power for splendid decepton. He tossed six and 37-yard touchdown passes to End Dean Dugger. Ohio State slammed to the other two on the ground behind the ball-carrying Of Bob Watkins, Fred Bruney, John Hlay and HOWE Cassidy. Illinois, behind O’Connell’s plotting. flew to the Ohio State 4, 6, II and 26-yard lines on occasions without scoring. The only time the Illini could score was late in the second period when O’Connell completed four successive passes good for 81 yards. It was capped by his 24-yard pitch to Rex Smith in the end zone. O’Connell Hits 10 of IS. Except for interceptions, O’Connell showed a crowd of $4,000 why he has rewritten the conference record books this season and is second in the Nation in aerial work. The 180-pound senior hit on 10 out of IS tosses for 254 yards. He also gained IL yards running. His total gain of 266 gave him an offensive record in six confer ence games of 1,150 yards. This erased the mark of 1,079 set by Minnesota’S Paul Giel last year O’Connell still has one game left, against Northwestern next week. In two other Big Ten record upheavals, O’Connell now has 1,138 passing yards in league play, eclipsing the season mark of 1000 by Wisconsin’s Johnny Coatta last year. His IS attempts gave him 172, smashing Coatta’s record of 146. Ohio State ------------ g Z 20 9–⁠27

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Officially, Ohio State leads 70–⁠30–⁠4; as played, 71–⁠30–⁠4 in 105 meetings, counting the 64 since this game.