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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1939
Page
7
A blocked late field goal decided the Carnegie Tech Notre Dame clash as the Irish secured a narrow victory. Stevenson, shown in the 1st quarter, gained five yards on a reverse play.
Ohio University football rides a bold upset streak as Don Peden’s team defeats Western Reserve, Xavier, and Dayton, defying pre season forecasts. Despite a rough start and a thin lineup, the Bobcats show grit and clutch performance, aiming to keep momentum into the Morris Harvey clash and avoid a letdown.
Carroll led by Tom Conley stood 4–0 with 19–0 win over Case while Stu Holcomb's Muskingum ran 5–0 in Ohio Conference play, most recently beating Wooster 20–7. Both teams shared top conference form as Ohio State, Ohio Northern, and Toledo challenged for the lead in a heavy nine-game bill next Saturday.
Cornell athletes led by Scholl and Bohrman stunned Ohio State before 50 000 at Columbus as the Big Red erased a 14 point Ohio State lead with an 84 yard march and an 18 yard field goal. Snavely’s Cornell edged Schmidt’s Buckeyes in a pivotal early season clash.
The Tigers, though out of the AL first division, troubled champion Yankees by stopping Atley Donald after 12 straight wins and limiting Joe DiMaggio to a .267 season average. Slip Madigan, St Marys coach, hails Ed Hefferman as the greatest passer in football. Ed Madden ships polo ponies to Princeton and other colleges each fall.
Iowa City notes former Notre Dame end Dr Eddie Anderson who distributed 60 hints for quarterbacks. The tips cover fundamentals like observe at all times memory, punt rules, when to forward pass, play sequencing and adapting to defenses, with emphasis on ball control, trick plays, tackling, sideline maneuvering and alert communication.
Ruth Elder Gillespie earns a playoff spot in a Los Angeles meet with a fine round in the low 80s and draws Peggy Graham as first round opponent. Graham defeats Gillespie 7 and 6 in the opening match.
Saturday scores include Ashland 18 Otterbein 0 Mount Union 34 Heidelberg 0 Kentucky 21 Xavier 0 Bowling Green 19 Wittenberg 13 Assumption 14 Findlay 6 Kenyon 0 Alfred Holbrook 0 tie Toledo 6 Western Michigan Teachers 0 Kent State 8 Hobart 6 Wilberforce 20 Tennessee State 0 Transylvania 13 Rio Grande 0.
New York Giants stay undefeated by edging Brooklyn Dodgers 7 to 6 to seize the Eastern Division lead in a weekend NFL action. Washington Redskins drop, Packers win 124 to 14, Lions upset Bears 10 to 0 as race tensions rise. Pirates tie Rams 14 14 with late TD. Kipke noted as a former Michigan star and famed punter.
Michigan remains the Big Ten’s only unbeaten and untied team after a 27 7 victory over Yale and a 1 9 13 win by Nile Kinnick led Iowa. The schedule features Northwestern at Minnesota and Illinois at Purdue while Chicago faces Virginia.
Cambridge Massachusetts notes that Dick Harlow, now Harvard's coach, once blocked 17 punts as a member of the 1917 Penn State team.
Chicago news profiles Marshall Goldberg of Pittsburgh listing his struggle to adapt as a passer and kicker in the National Professional Football League. He reflects on learning to pass, his All American success at Pittsburgh, and past roles as halfback and blocking fullback aiding Cassiano's line.
Eleven teams vie for the mythical national title as November games loom. Tennessee tops the poll followed by Michigan Notre Dame Texas A M Southern California Tulane Oklahoma Nebraska Cornell Oregon State and North Carolina. Highlights include Cornell s upset of Ohio State and Jim Lalanne s all around play for North Carolina. Notre Dame survives a one point margin in a 7 6 win over Carnegie Tech.
The heavyweight bout between Ruddy Walker of Columbus and Bill Boyd of Birmingham, Alabama, scheduled for tonight, has been postponed with no new date set.
The player’s early pro debut revealed weakness in pass defense but he has since improved and is considered one of the league’s best at the halfback position.
Minnesota alumni protest eastern and southern scouts luring top high school stars like Jaros and Howard away from the state. They accuse subsidization, favor Coach Bernie Bierman, and push for keeping talent in Minnesota as bids rise for a larger stadium amid the Gophers’ national profile.
In Chicago and other cities, night games boost gate receipts and salaries. Players, who once opposed after sundown schedules, now back night baseball as majors and minors profit from evening crowds. Giants and Yankees have yielded to the trend, while Detroit clings to principles.
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