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Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-11-29 | Page 4 | Thirty Million Dollar Gate Paid in Record-Smashing Grid Season

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Date 1926-11-29
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Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
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Article Title Thirty Million Dollar Gate Paid in Record-Smashing Grid Season
Type article
Date 1926-11-29
Paper Salt Lake Telegram
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
Page 4
OCR Text THIRTY MILLIO DOLLAR DOLLART SATE T PA AI I R E O D S A HI G G I S SEAU A O Myth cal Nati un Title TM j I. Honors j Stanford Alabama-Stanford Game May Be Basis fo Claim Big Ten Without National Contender Contend By the Associated Pr Press ss The 1926 seasons season's record of major sectional college collego champions ar r. r some of their leading rivals follow Op Op Won Lost Tied Points t Pt College Stanford Stanford 10 io 0 0 Lafayette Lafayette 9 0 0 Alabama 9 0 0 n 0 Navy 9 9 0 1 Brown V A 9 9 0 1 Southern Methodist 8 0 1 i Boston College 6 6 0 2 p California 1 8 1 13 0 Dame S B l 1 0 o Northwestern stern n. n o N. N f 7 1 0 Michigan 7 1 0 Tennessee I 7 1 1 0 V Vanderbilt 7 1 i 0 i Army 7 1 1 next Saturday at Los Angeles t The climax of a shattering record football season of of an n ii spills has as left a leg legacy cy of greater dispute over mythical national c arT honors than any campaign in years W Where ere Notre Dames Dame's four horsemen ro roamed med victoriously fi fa fac 1 ar an WI wide d e in In 1924 and Dartmouth's famous aerial artists decorated U ti heights without much Controversy in 1925 the close of oC the regular ular 1926 season finds fInd at least four outstanding outstandIng outstandIng ing teams in the title debate Rebuttals Rebuttals Rebuttals Re Re- from oni rom I wo ivo or three otHers further the situation The most roost conspicuous postseason prospect a pl projected New Y Years Year's ars ar's battle at Pasadena between Ala bama's Southern champions and i Pop Warners Warner's Stanford outfit tItleholders titleholders titleholders title- title holders on the Pacific coast may do a lot to clear the air but ut it cant can't entirely settle the Issue These two teams team share with Lafayette the distinction distinction dis dis- of being neither tied nor beaten Victory at Pasadena forone forone for forone one or the other w uld establish as strong a championship claim as le any contender In spite of ot its spectacular tie with the tile Arm Army in Chicago's record record- breaking service classic the tile Navy avy still sUIl regards itself a as very much in inthe Inthe inthe the running when title tithe laurels are passed around simultaneously the Army's claims would seem to be beOn beon beon on the same level but the Cadets tasted one defeat at tit t the hands of or Notre Dame while the Navy y a un to the tile final tussle sank au all opposition in nine successive e games against some of ot the most powerful outfits of ot the East or Middle liddle West Yest No team anywhere put in as bristling a series of battles as as hard fighting sailors who aU als also ca ered cred themselves with glory in the closing fray No such sustained d q power as that I 1 both the tile Army or Navy Kavy but pa t t of the tile Middies has been w in any other ther single game th fall fail fall Vj Brown Bro too enters some ome cla claIm m tc ft l. l n in spite of having havin I streak a af fin t winning checked by a 11 nl tie with Colgate Notre Noire lame Dame ft eight straight victories over r rugge foes and a a. a defensive reCOrd i yielding only one touchdown touchdownS rits r A Aits its case all ready for argument j W Carnegie swooped over the tile pro ate ti-ate Hoosiers In an to 19 upheaval al Notre Dames Dame's elimination le lef lefay I Middle West Vest without a real nat nad title contender r for the tile first tIr tiri timi Ji years Michigan and Northwester who finished tied for the Wester conference champl championship botn defeat by outsiders the tile Wo e ines thea losing to Nav Navy Kavy and Nor em ern to Notre Dame JB Except for a tie with l the Mustangs of Southern I Uit dist university Southwest co ci i ence champions champion would be 1 in cOi F 1 thick of the fight They WOn son a of their remaining games Okla Continued on page 3 l. l I
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