The Citadel at Richmond

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  Evening star, Washington, D.C., October 13, 1956, page 1 (results column)

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  1875 Beating Underscores Terps’ Lack Of Offense Football Interest On IntersectionuI Games Today Intersectional games claim major attention on this week. ends football schedule. and todays contests just about wind up that phase of the season providing the line of comparison for those who try to rate teams on a national basis. From here on, major confer ence teams will devote their at tention mainly to settling their own sectional championships. Only a few ambitious independent teams. such as Notre Dame. Navy, Pittsburgh, Miami of Florida and Villanova will in dulge in any great amount of intersectional play during the rest of the season. Undefeated Miami won its third straight last night by nip ping Maryland 1876 in the Orange Bowl. In another FRI day night encounter Richmond edged the Citadel 7–⁠3. Army and Navy and a trio of Southwest Conference teams lead the way in travel today. Army Is Hopeful The unbeaten Army team, after a tough hassle with Penn State last week, visits Michigan’s 101,- .000-seat stadium at Ann Arbor to take on Bonnie Oosterbaan’s lads, who beat Michigan State in Everything but the score. With the development of Bob Kyasky at quarterback and the return of Loren Reid at tackle, Army Coach Earl Blaik is hopeful of making it a close game. Nays alternating FIRST” teams both are expected to see a lot of action against Tulane at New Orleans. Although Navy has a 20 record and Tulane 81 against stronger opposition. the status of the Midshipmen is I’M certain. Coach Eddie Erdelatz apparently hasn’t been able to settle on a definite lineup. From the Southwest, Texas Christian. Rice and Southern Methodist all go into the South ern area to play Alabama, Flor ida and Duke. respectively. All three visitors should have the edge. Meanwhile, Baylor and Arkansas tangle in the only Southwest Conference game and Texas takes on Oklahoma. No. l team in the Nation in the Associated Press ranking poll, in a contest with a slightly intersec- 4onal flavor. Oklahoma, the dominant team of the Big Seven Conference, has Just learned that its 32-game winning streak isn’t a modern record. StatiSticians dug up the fact that Pittsburgh won 33 in a row from 1914 to 1919. So todays game gives Oklahoma a chance to tie the record and when they return to their Of conference rivals, they’ll be going for a new mark. TCU and Baylor also are rated in the Nations top 10 teams. The others in this group are playing in their own neighbour hoods, except Southern Cali fornia, which has a day off. Michigan State, the No. 2 team, goes after its second Big Ten victory against Indiana, Georgia Tech 90 plays Louisiana State in Southeastern Conference game and Ohio State 80 and Mississippi Cd engage in a couple of the days most important clashes in their own league. Other Big Games Ohio State has it’s annual struggle with Illinois, an uncertain team which was beaten by Washington last week but still looks dangerous. Mississippi takes on Vanderbilt, a three game winner which currently leads the Southeastern Confer Ience and which finished 18th in this weeks poll. Other conference games of special Importance include Iowa Wisconsin and Minnesota North western big TEN, Iowa State Kansas and Nebraska Kansas State Chg Severn. Kentucky Auburn southeastern, Wake Forest-Clemson and Virginia. South Carolina (Atlantic COAST ;, Utah Denver, Montana Utah State and Wyoming-New Mexico Skyline. Texas Western-Ari- IONA, Texas Tech-West Texas and Hardin Simmons Arizona State Border, UCLA-Washington State. Washington-Oregon and Oregon State California Pacific Coast, Brown-Dartmouth, Columbia Yale, Cornell Harvard and Penn-Princeton (Ivy). Some equally interesting nom league games are Penn State Holy Cross, Syracuse-West Virginia. Boston University George Washington, Notre Dame-Purdue. Marquette Boston College, North Carolina Georgia, North Carolina State-Florida State and Houston-Texas Ann.

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Richmond leads 13–⁠12 in 25 meetings, counting the 19 since this game.