Sport: Scoreboard, Oct. 12, 1953

¶ Notre Dame's football team, ranked the nation's best by a wide margin in the Associated Press poll, limbered up its offensive for tougher games ahead by rushing and lateral-passing to an easy victory over Purdue University, 37-7. The No. 2 team, Michigan State, overpowered the University of Minnesota, 21-0, to move into the Big Ten's top spot and push its victory streak to 26 straight games, longest of any major college. Unrated Princeton furnished the thriller of the week, drew even with Columbia by scoring on a desperate forward pass with 23...

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