September
September 19 TCU opened with a 6-0 win at Howard Payne College at Brownwood, Texas.
September 26 In Seattle, Minnesota opened its season with a 14-7 win over Washington.
Defending champ (under the Dickinson ratings) SMU had a tough time in beating North Texas, 6-0, and Rose Bowl winner Stanford lost its opener to visiting Santa Clara 13-0. Sugar Bowl winner TCU lost at Texas Tech 7-0. LSU beat visiting Rice 20-7. Alabama beat Samford 34-0 and Pittsburgh beat Ohio Wesleyan 53-0.
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Famous quotes containing the word september:
“Thus was my first year’s life in the woods completed; and the second year was similar to it. I finally left Walden September 6th, 1847.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.”
—Gore Vidal (b. 1925)
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—State of Oklahoma, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)