Georgia at Georgia Tech

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  Evening star, December 1, 1959, page 29

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  SyracuseKeeps Poll Lead, but ole Miss Gains Only UCLA’s giant-kiIlers stand between Syracuse’s precisioniSts and the National football championship. Their clash Saturday in Los Angeles before a national television audience probably will decide whether the unbeaten and united Orangemen retain their No. l ranking in the AS sociated Press poll. Syracuse, bound for a New Years Day Cotton Bowl engagement with Texas, held onto first place in the next-to-last balloting today. but saw the margin over runnerup Mississippi trimmed to 142 points. Winners of nine straight this season, the Orange received 95 Of the 164 flrst-place votes cast by sports writer’s and broad casters for 1,495 points. Mississippi was selected as the top team by 49 voters and amassed 1850 points. Once-b e aten Ole Mi S trounced Mississippi State, AZ o. last week while Syracuse was idle. Holding their places behind the leaders were LSU and Tex as, but unheralded Georgia kept moving up. The Bulldogs took over fifth place on the basis of their 21–⁠14 victory over Georgia Tech. Idle Wisconsin dropped a notch to sixth, while TCU. which knocked of SMU, 1910, climbed into seventh place Washington, Arkansas and Clemson follow. The top ten with points based on 10 for a first-place vote, nine for second, etc. (First place votes and won-lost records In parentheSeS):

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Officially, Georgia leads 73–⁠41–⁠5; as played, 69–⁠40–⁠5 in the 114 games on file; the official count covers all 119 meetings, counting the 65 since this game.