Monday-morning quarterbacks, eager to gloat over successful predictions, equally anxious to justify errors in judgment, last week suppressed their crowings. Cause for their silence was a startling list of Saturday upsets.
Sharpest reversals came to undefeated, untied teams. A record crowd of 46,000 sat chilled in Durham as North Carolina's Tar Heels, odds-on favorites, were throttled 25-10-0 by Duke's already twice-beaten eleven. Smothered 2740-0 was Syracuse by thrice-defeated Colgate. Third leader to be toppled was Marquette, by Pop Warner's deceptive Temple team, 26-10-6.
After counting up the damage, newshawks agreed that Dartmouth,...
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