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Atlanta Daily World
Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia
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Alabama State and Florida A&M vie for the SIAC football championship, with a decisive game against Tuskegee on Nov. 27. Florida A&M finished strong, while Alabama State needs a win. Other games and standings reported, including Florida A&M's upcoming matchup against Southern University.
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Alabama State and Florida A. and M. will have to wait until Nov. 27 for the decision on the undisputed Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference championship. The Hornets will climax their SIAC slate on that date against Tuskegee Institute. The Rattlers completed their loop slate Nov. 15 with 52-14 rout of Allen University.
Alabama State won its sixth SIAC victory in a row in beating Fisk 20-6, but the question mark is whether these conquests (all over second division teams) will catapult the Hornets to undisputed possession of the title
The final decision will come under the Dickinson Rating System, a complex yardstick but a fairly accurate device, when the final scores are in the books. As it stands, A. S Gaither's defending national champions, have a slice of the title. Alabama State faces a back-to-wall Tuskegee Institute which could play havoc with the Hornets winning their first loop crown since 1938.
An eager-beaver South Carolina State which trampled Morris Brown 27-6 is hungrily awaiting the results. Roy D. Moore's Bulldogs appear a cinch for the third place spot.
BLUEPRINT FORMULA Clark College playing non-league
Rattlers Complete Slate: Hornets To Play Tuskegee Inst.
Savannah State is the clue to the puzzle created by Frank Dickinson's blueprint formula for small college championship. If Coach L S. Epps' Panthers defeat Morris Brown (and this seems inevitable in the cycle of football then Alabama State will get a needed assist in its conquest for conference laurels
Fort Valley State knocked Miles College from the unbeaten, untied ranks with a 18-12 decision in La Grange, Ga. Alva Tabor's Peachmen stunned the Golden Bears with a first quarter shocker as Leland Mangrum sprinted for 56- yards. Mangrum blasted the Alabama eleven hopes with a second quarter 36-yard run to set up the pass from Ronald Brown to Clifford Brown to ice the verdict.
In other games Xavier outlasted Bethune Cookman 28-20. Tuskegee Institute nipped Dillard via that fatal extra point route 14-13. Morehouse should have won against Howard but settled for a 6-6 tie. Lane kayoed Knoxville 16-10 and Benedict was felled by N. C. College 36-14.
DANGEROUS SOUTHERN The game of the week will see unbeaten Florida A&M risk its hopes for a second national championship against dangerous Southern University. The Rattlers will have to play their best game to win before an expected Southwestern Conference crowd of 25,000
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Alabama State Hornets need to defeat Tuskegee Institute on Nov. 27 to claim the SIAC championship over Florida A&M Rattlers, who finished their schedule with a win. Standings determined by Dickinson Rating System. Other SIAC games reported, including Fort Valley State's upset over Miles College and Florida A&M's upcoming game against Southern University.