Unbeaten Team List Shrinks As Season Ends
Texas A&M suffered its first defeat of the season 7-0 to Texas, ending a 19 game win streak and complicating the conference race. Boston College remains No. 1 edging out Fordham and others as bowls loom.
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Newspaper
Tucson Daily Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1940
Page
11
Texas A&M suffered its first defeat of the season 7-0 to Texas, ending a 19 game win streak and complicating the conference race. Boston College remains No. 1 edging out Fordham and others as bowls loom.
Chicago Bears and Washington Redskins, champions of the western and eastern divisions, prepare for a decisive national pro football championship game in Washington next Sunday. The Bears beat the Cardinals 31 23 and the Redskins edged the Eagles 13 6 to finish with nine wins and two losses.
Stanford, unbeaten Pacific Coast champion, earned the Rose Bowl bid to face Nebraska, once Big Six titleholder, in Pasadena January 1. Stanford plans in Pasadena, with 90 000 tickets on sale. Nebraska coaches study travel plans after key wins and a season-opening defeat by Minnesota.
Lincoln coach Biff Jones says Nebraska will field a 40 man Rose Bowl team, all Nebraskan students paying their own way, working jobs to fund tuition. The rugged squad averages 194 pounds on the line and 190 in the backfield, with a strong ground game and capable passers Rohrig Hopp and Bradley.
Pasadena officials welcomed Nebraska as the Rose Bowl participant, noting it as the first Big Six team and the fourth Midwestern team invited since the game began in 1902. C Hal Reynolds said the selection broadens the national championship feel as teams from all regions compete, with past Midwestern matchups listed.
California is identified as the leading domestic producer of quicksilver. The report highlights its dominant role in national output and positions the state at the forefront of the mercury industry.
The New York Sun named a 53 man All-America football squad with a starting eleven featuring Jay MacDowell Washington Ke Alf Bauman Northwestern Bob Suffridge Tennessee Ray Frick Pennsylvania Augie Lio Georgetown Vic Sears Oregon State Buddy Elrod Mississippi State Henry Toczylowski Boston College George Franck Minnesota Tom Harmon Michigan John Kimbrough Texas A&M as the chosen stars.
A historic note claims Cuba's population is 60 percent white and 40 percent black. The statement reflects period attitudes and uses racial categories prevalent in the era.
Entries for Buck Fletcher’s Old Fashioned western rodeo are taken at Porter's Store on North Stone Ave with Kermit Lewis. Visitors will drive to Fletcher's Horse Ranch on Wilmot Road four percent mile north of Benson Highway for the event. Prize money boosts action in many events.
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