Auburn at Georgia Tech

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  The Key West citizen. (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, Florida, October 20, 1953, page 8 (results column)

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  |Notre Dame Tops Nation For 18th Week NEW YORK R-Notre Dame Il leading the national football rank. ing list for the fourth straight week, but next Saturday the Fight. ing Irish faces 4 double threat to their hold on first place. After last weeks 2s-l4 victory over Pittsburgh, Notre Dame |polled 81 first-plaees votes out Of la cast In the fourth weekly As. ISOLATED Press ranking poll. The Irish haven’t been displaced since the nations sports writers and broadcasters picked them In the preseason poll as the team most likely to succeed. But their two closest rivals In the weekly balloting. Michigan State and Maryland, were closer than ever before when the points were totaled up on the usual basis of 10 points for . first-place vote, nine for second, etc. Notre Dame wound up with l,ls3 points and a margin Of only Is points over runner-up Michigan State. A week ago, Notre Dame had “a first-place votes and l,226 points to II and OF for Michigan State. Not only is the balloting closer, but on Saturday Notre Dame must meet fourth-ranked Georgia Tech in game that could completely upset the standings. Tech, a team that didn’t show much offense In its early games, got started against Tulane a week ago and rolled over threatening Auburn by 36–⁠6 count last Saturday to climb from sixth place to fourth in the rankings. Michigan State, an easy winner over Indiana, collected 81 votes for first place and 1,107 points this week while Maryland, breezing past North Carolina as easily as its earlier opponents. polled a firsts and 1,004 points. Georgia Tech, with only three firsts, received 76e points. Rounding out the first 10 are Baylor, Illinois, West Virginia. Oklahoma and Navy. The top 10 birthplace votes In

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Auburn leads 42–⁠41–⁠3 in 86 meetings, counting the 36 since this game.