October
On a Wednesday game (October 3) Minnesota beat Nebraska 20-0. Illinois beat Washington University (at St. Louis) 12-7, and on Friday, Alabama beat Sewanee 35-6 in Montgomery.
October 6 Navy beat Virginia 21-6 in a game in Washington, DC. In New Orleans, Tulane beat Auburn 13-0. At Portland, Stanford beat Oregon State 17-0. Columbia opened its season in New York with a 12-6 win over Yale, and Colgate beat St. Lawrence 32-0. Pittsburgh won at West Virginia 27-6. Ohio State beat Indiana 33-0. Rice won at Purdue 14-0.
October 13.
Illinois beat Ohio State 14-13.
Stanford beat visiting Northwestern 20-0. Pittsburgh defeated visiting USC 20-6. Alabama defeated Mississippi State 41-0, Rice defeated SMU 9-0, and Tulane won at Florida 28-12. Navy defeated Maryland 16-13, Colgate beat St. Bonaventure 62-0 and Columbia beat VMI 29-6.
October 20
Minnesota won at Pittsburgh, 13-7. Ohio State defeated visiting Colgate 10-7. Navy beat Columbia 18-7. Alabama and Tennessee, both 3-0-0, met in Birmingham, with Bama winning 13-6. Tulane edged visiting Georgia 7-6. In Omaha, Rice beat Creighton University 47-13. Stanford beat USF at San Francisco, 3-0.
October 27 Alabama beat Georgia 26-6 at Birmingham, while in New Orleans, Tulane beat Georgia Tech 20-12. Rice stayed unbeaten with a 20-9 win over visiting Texas. Minnesota won at Iowa 48-12, . Illinois won at Michigan 7-6, and Ohio State won at Northwestern 28-6. Stanford registered its fourth shutout, a 16-0 win over USC. Navy won at Penn, Colgate won at Holy Cross 20-7 and Columbia beat visiting Penn State 14-7. Pittsburgh beat host school Westminster College of Pennsylvania, 30-0
In a Sunday game,
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