SMU at Michigan

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  The Nome nugget, Alaska, September 30, 1963, page 7 (results column)

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  “The Sports Corner Big Ten Takes Lead The Big Ten Conference came through with flying colors in it’s opening games Saturday in col lege football. Wisconsin, Ohio State, Illinois, Michigan State and Michigan all posted victories in other 1863 de- buts. Wisconsin came from behind with 67 seconds to go and nipped Notre Dame, IA to 9, on a one-yard smash by Ralph Kurek. Ohio State topped Southern Methodist, F to 0, with Matt Smell scoring two touchdoWns and Dick Raphorst kicking a 37-yard field goal and pair of conversions. Illinois defeated California, 10 to 0, on a third period touchdown by Sam Price and a final-quarter 28-yard field goal by Jim Plan kenhorn. Michigan State rolled to a 3l to 0 verdict over North Carolina with sophomore Steve Juday sparkling the attack And Michigan held off to a gal lant rally by Southern Methodist before posting a 27 to 16 victory. The Texans scored all of their points in the final quarter. The lone sad spot for the Big Ten Conference came when Ne raska scored touchdown in the final pediod to top Minnesota, IA to 2.

Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The text is the machine reading of the page, mistakes and all.

Michigan leads 2–⁠0 in two meetings, counting the one since this game.