Word: northwestern
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Twice in two years, Big Nine teams had invaded the Rose Bowl and made the Pacific Coast champions look like second-raters. Last week, a Big Nine team won again, but not until Northwestern Halfback Ed Tunnicliff broke loose for a 43-yard run in the last minutes of play. Final score: Northwestern 20, California 14. Some scores in other bowls (16 in all, which did a more than $2,000,000 business before some 600,000 fans...
Football: Cotton Bowl (Sat. 1 p.m., Mutual). S.M.U. v. Oregon. Orange Bowl (Sat. 2 p.m., CBS). Texas v. Georgia. Rose Bowl (Sat. 4:45 p.m., CBS). Northwestern v. California...
This assurance came yesterday from John W. Teele '28, Director of Student Placement. Teele's statement was prompted by an article in yesterday's New York Times in which Frank S. Endicott, Placement head at northwestern University, stressed the "leveling-off" in the acceptance by the nation's large firms...
...California had finished the season undefeated, it still wasn't in the Rose Bowl yet, for Oregon too was unbeaten in Pacific Coast Conference games. That left the Rose Bowl choice to the vote of all ten Pacific Coast Conference schools. This week they picked California. Its opponent: Northwestern, which is second best in the Big Nine. Under the strange terms of the Rose Bowl contract, Big Nine Champion Michigan, which played in the last Rose Bowl (and beat Southern California, 49-0), is ineligible to return for two more years...
...South Bend, an unbelieving crowd of 59,305 saw mighty Notre Dame trail Northwestern into the last period, 7-6. This, too, looked for a time like the upset of the year. Then by sheer power, the Irish hacked and hammered at Northwestern's sturdy line, and finally managed to walk off field with their 20th straight victory since Nov. 9, 1946. The game ended with Notre Dame ahead, 12-7; it was Northwestern's last game with Notre Dame-at least for a while...