The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-11-15
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 IN GRID PLAY ON SATURDAY
Top Two Games of Day ljn- settled Seconds Before
 Final Gun
By BEN PhGEGAR


 NEW YORK, Nov. 15.-tR-Col- lege football teams squeezed through Saturdays proceedings with a mini mum of upsets, but with enough fourth quarter thrills for a whole season.
 The top two games of the day weren't settled until the final gun sounded. More than half dozen others were seriously in doubt up to the last play.
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 Army marched 73 yards to beat the clock by 30 seconds in whip ping Pennsylvania, 26-lo, after the lead had changed hands three times.
 Notre Dame came from behind in the last nine minutes to edge Northwestern, 12-7.
 Gil Johnson's desperation pass to Paul Page gave Southern Methodist a 14-l2 verdict over Arkansas on the last play of the game.
 With less than three minutes re- main,ng Bob Dean scored for Cor nell and then kicked the extra point that gave the Big Red 27-26 mar gin over Dartmouth which had leo 26-14, at the start of the fourth quarter.
 Princeton nipped Yale, 2O-14, wit two last period iouchdowns and then had to halt the determined Ellis within tic shadow Of the goalpcst- in tle clos ng seconds.
 lows refused to stay down agains Rfinneeota. The Hawkeyes were never aheai, hut they tied tae Goph- trs three different times tefore Minnesota pulled out in the last quarter, 23-21.
 Joe McCary. rlay ng despite in- juries, raced 45 yards in the last quarter, with an intercepted lateral for the only score as Virg mia nosed out West Virginia, TO
 Boston College, by far the best in everything but points, had tC come from behind in the closino rlinuAes ts gain 14-14 tie witf Will am and Mary.
 And .unbeaten Clemson, an un- derdcg despite it's untarnished rec ord, moved past Wake Forest, 2l- 14, With fourth period counter
 There were some lopsides affairs tco.
 Michigan scored and scored and scored against Indiana, finally wind ino.up " tn $40 verdict that prob ably will make it first by wide margin in the Associated Press poll of leading teams.
 Unteaten California found Wash ington State a soft touch and breezed Nome in front, 44-14. Once tied Penn State romped over Tenn pie, 47-0 Georgia stayed on top in the Southeastern Conference by rolling over Auburn, 42-14, and Ok lahoma, Big Seven favorite, had Ii just as easy against Nebraska, win ming 44-14 North Carolina frushes aside Maryland, 49-20, in what was supposed to be a defensive battle.
 Tfe South provided a couple of surprises.
 Alabama upset Georgia Tech, IA. 12, virtually knock ng the Engineers from bowl consideration. And Ten nessee, which had dumped Tech from the unbeaten ranks only the Saturday before, wound up on the short end of a 16-13 score against Mississippi
 Kansas State came within siz yards of winning it's first confer ence game since 1944, but its hated rival, Kansas University, prevailed, 20-14
 Ohio State warned Michigan that it may furnish trouble this Satur- day. The Buckeyes trounced Illl- nois, 34-7, with three touchdowns in the last quarter.
 Tulane remained in the running for a possible Sugar Bowl bid by defeating Baylor, 35-13.
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