TCU at Michigan State

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  Evening star, October 11, 1953, page 66

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  EAST LANSING. Mich, Oct. 10.-Evan Slonac, a slight TO- FOUNDER from ST. Michaels, Pa, scored the tying touchdown and then kicked a vital extra point today as Michigan State made a roaring comeback in the fourth quarter after trailing by two touchdownS to overcome a sur prisingly strong Texas Christian team. 26–⁠19. Underrated Texas Christian led, 1877. at halftime and was ahead, 1877. going into the final period on the strength of three touchdown passes. For while it looked as II mighty Michigan State, the de- Tending national champion and a three-touchdown pre-game IA vorite. would be ingloriouslS dumped, it’s string Of straight wins stopped at 26. Leroy Bolden scored at the enc of a 69-yard drive to put the

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  The Key West citizen. (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, Florida, October 12, 1953, page 1 (results column)

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  NEW YORK Up – The college football season isn’t even half over but il already looks like most of the coaches who predicted dire things as a result Of the one-pla. toon system were right. The mentors weren’t the least bit happy when The NCAA out. lawed the two-platoon setup. Many said they wouldn’t be able to cope with the new system. The results after three weeks seem to bear them out. There al. ways are upSets, but some of the scores are inexplicakle, like Cali Ifornia as 400 massacre of Penn and Illinois 4l-20 shellacking of Ohio State Saturday. From the very first day of the season when Mississippi Southern trouncedr Alabama. tie big name coaches have been holding their heads. Georgia Tech, until it whipped Tulane, 27.13, Saturday. had scored exactly one touchdown in two previous games. Oklahoma. until it whipped Texas, 1914, had not won a game. Musclemen like Michigan State Michigan, Southern California Baylor and Duke all had their troubles. All Southern Cal, rated the co-favorite for the Pacific Coast Conference title, could do was tie Washington 1913 on a 7o-yard return and 7s-yard pass interrogation. Michigan State, rated right behind Notre Dame in the national rankings, had to call on substitute back Evan Slonic to score the tieing touchdown, then 60 on to beat Texas Christian 26–⁠19. Michigan beat Iowa l4-l3 on sophomore Lou Baldacci’s conversion. Baylor edged Arkansas l4–⁠7 in the last three minutes, and Duke beat Purdue 20–⁠14, notch ing the winning touchdown just SO seconds before the end. The Ohio State debacle and the Penn trouncing probably were the

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Michigan State leads 2–⁠0 in two meetings, counting the one since this game.