Indiana at Ohio State

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  Evening star, Washington, D.C., November 7, 1960, page 1 (results column)

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  GopF1ers Ride Crest, Guard Against Letup The world Of college football today belongs to Minnesota S resurgent Golden GopherS and their oft-maligned coach, Muir ray Warmath. They hope they can hold on to it a bit longer than some of the other king pins this season. If they don’t, a half-step away is a fighting band of Missouri Tigers. whose glory days” go far back to 194l, the same time Bernie Bierman and the Gophers were the strong men Of college football. The Gophers and Warmath climaxed 10 years of coming back” Saturday when they boosted their season record to TO by beating Iowa’s Hawk eyes, ranked first in the AS ISOLATED Press poll. 27-l0. The victory put the Gophers. ranked third last week. in the Big Ten lead. Missouri, a 1876 victor over Colorado, took command in the Big Eight and has an 80 mark, the most wins for a Missouri team since Don Faurot’s team had an 8–⁠3 record in 1913. Gophers Face Purdue Looking toward Minnesota s game this week against Purdue, with a Pal record and three straight losses, Warmath OBJ served tartly: I’VE don’t put any stock in those four defeats. Purdue is a fine football team” The Gophers don’t dare relax. Defending national cham pion Syracuse. Mississippi and Iowa all held the kingpin spot at one time or another this year. and each had the crown snatched rudely away by a sleeping giant. A Minnesota victory over Purdue will assure the Gophers at least a tie for the Big Ten title and possibly start its adj mirers talking of a trip to the Rose Bowl. Ohio State, ranked fifth and a 36–⁠7 winner over Indiana, plays the HawkeyeS, and the loser is finished in the race. Kansas in Race Missouri. ranked second ma tionally before its victory over Colorado. plays Oklahoma. The Sooners won’t make it Is Big Eight titles in a row after last weeks 1916 loss to Iowa State. But Kansas is still around, and if it beats Colorado this week the Missouri–Kansas game the following Saturday will produce the conference champion. Things get interesting else where this week. Washington, ranked seventh before beating Southern California, $40, can nail down a spot to defnd its Rose Bowl title by beating California and winning the Big Five crown. Duke, whose 1910 victory over previously unbeaten Navy was one Of the surprises of the day, can gain at least a tie for the Atlantic Coast Conference title by beating Wake Forest. Yale. with a TO mark after whipping Penn. 34–⁠9, plays Princeton in what probably will be the Ivy League title game. Both are SO in league play and each has two games left. Mississippi. ranked sixth, tries to keep its Southeastern See COLLEGES, Page C-3

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Officially, Ohio State leads 81–⁠13–⁠5; as played, 82–⁠13–⁠5 in 100 meetings, counting the 58 since this game.