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From the opening kickoff, the Middies behaved as if they had completely forgotten their own miserable season (won 2, lost 6), Army's 28-game unbeaten streak and the fact that they were 20-point underdogs in the betting odds. In the first half, a team that had been flubbing assignments all year held Army to exactly three yards by rushing. When Army took to the air, Navy defensemen swarmed over the receivers; before the afternoon was over they reached up and snatched three passes out of the confident reach of Army Left End Dan Foldberg, team captain...
...Oklahoma over Oklahoma A & M, 41-14, its 31st victory in a row, to join Princeton as one of the two top unbeaten, untied teams of the season and fortify the Sooners' claim to No. 1 U.S. honors...
After 100 tons of snow had been cleared off the field at Knoxville, Tennessee's Cotton Bowl-bound Volunteers threw themselves on the frozen turf to recover eight of Kentucky's nine fumbles, then whipped the unbeaten Wildcats, 7-0, in 15° weather. Some Southern comfort was provided after the game with the announcement that Kentucky, despite its defeat, had been chosen to play in the Sugar Bowl. Probable opponent: Oklahoma, which won its 30th straight by downing Nebraska...
...State, 9-3. Illinois, with its bags half packed for a Rose Bowl trip, was frozen out of the journey and the Big Ten title by Northwestern, 14-7. Though once tied and thrice beaten, Michigan, as conference champions, will go to the Rose Bowl. Michigan's opponent: unbeaten California, which had its record only slightly marred by Stanford...
Killed In Action. Second Lieut. John C. Trent, 24, of Memphis, end and captain of Army's unbeaten 1949 football squad, second West Point football captain to die in the Korean war*; on Nov. 15, three days after landing at Wonsan...