Penn State at Army

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  Evening star, Washington, D.C., October 15, 1962, page 1 (results column)

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  VIM LOSE OR DRAW Miami Redskins Join FobIed Giont-KiIIers ANOTHER OXFORD, USA, had been a dateline for more inflammable stuff An other Miami was supposed to be the foot ball power. Another team called the Red skins had been the early fancy catcher of the season. Shake ‘em all up-Oxford, Miami and RedSkins-and out comes little Miami Uni versity of Oxford Ohio whose athletic teams are called the Redskins. These-the Miami (Ohio) Redskins were Saturdays most precocious children. In battle between unbeaten teams-a clash UNDERSTANDABLE not headlined- Miami upended mighty Purdue, 1877. If you’re a believer in comparative scores you can have fun with this one, even so early. Purdue had tied the University of Washington, supposedly the best in the Far West washington has whipped Illinois, Kansas and Oregon State since.) Purdue also had licked Notre Dame, 24–⁠6, right after the Irish had handled Oklahoma AS A LITTLE SCHOOL in football, playing a Big Ten outfit, Miami of Ohio was smuggling up to the tabled giant-killers of history. The Redskins were kin to the Carlisle Indians, who in 1907 whipped Penn, Minnesota, Harvard and Chicago. They were kin to the Irish of Notre Dame who in 1918 invaded West Point and defeated Army. They were kin to the Pray ing Colonies of Centre College, who in 1919 upset powerful West Virginia and two years later handed Harvard its first defeat in three years, its first interSectional loss in four decades. The Redskins from Ohio we’re knocking off the No. 9 team in the land and doing it the hard way, overcoming the big-crowd filters, losing the battle of statistics but winning the war Now they return to their own class . Ohio University, Bowling Green, Toledo, Dayton and Cincinnati. But their wild fling in the Big Ten won’t be quickly forgotten. “a ON CHANNEL 9 WAS the country’s most viewed upset, Army over Penn State, and networks don’t choose em any better than this one. Army, humbled by Michigan a week earlier, revealed itself to be Splendidly coached, chance taking team in that 9–⁠6 victory over the No. 3 team in the land. Penn State. which had swamped Navy, All, beaten Air Force, 2O-6, and trounced Rice, 1877, couldn’t score touchdown. Both of Penn States scores we’re field goals. 1t could have been 6–⁠6 tie if it were not

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Penn State leads 14–⁠10–⁠2 in 26 meetings, counting the 13 since this game.