Ole Miss at LSU

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  Evening star, November 1, 1953, page 66

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  BATON ROUGE. La, Oct. 81. Mississippi, piloted by Lea Pas lay and Houston Patton, long range pasSers, blasted Louisiana State University from the unbeaten football ranks tonight with a 27–⁠16 victory. The two quarterbacks took advantage of LSU’s main weak ness, a porous pass defense, with incredibly long aerials that ate up nearly 800 yards, accounting for one touchdown and setting up three more. Thrice-tied LSU kept a partisan crowd of $4,000 hopeful to the end by almost matching the Mississippi air game with a ground attack that unleashed two long touchdown runs. Mississippi scored first on q 20-yard Paslay pass to End Bob Adams on the goal line in the opening quarter. Fullback Jerry Marchand. with a 49-yard pass through the Mis-

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Officially, LSU leads 64–⁠44–⁠4; as played, 64–⁠42–⁠4 in the 110 games on file; the official count covers all 115 meetings, counting the 74 since this game.