North Texas vs. Ole Miss

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  Evening star, District of Columbia, September 18, 1954, page 14

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  NEW YORK, Sept. 18.-Just about the time Rocky Marciano was putting the zing to Ezzard Charles in their heavyweight title bout at Yankee Stadium last night, Mississippi Southern ushered in the 1854 college foot bah season with a knockout of its own. On the same gridiron in Mont gomery, Ala, where they startled collegiate circles last year by upsetting Alabama, Dixie’s new est Cinderella eleven did it again to the Crimson Tide This time the score was To. The surprise triumph over an Alabama team that rolled up 16 first downs to three and gained 1913 yards by rushing to 81, over Shadowed Stanford’s 1912 squeeze over College of Pacific and Southern California’s $50 romp over Washington State. Mississippi’s 35–⁠12 drubbing of North Texas State and Denver’s

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Ole Miss leads 4–⁠0 in four meetings, counting the two since this game.