Scoreboard

P: On the first big college football weekend of the year, top-ranked teams across the nation flashed expected power as they warmed up for the battles to come. Syracuse opened the defense of its national championship by brushing aside Boston University, 35-7. A favorite to win the Big Ten title, Northwestern ground down once mighty Oklahoma, 19-3. Among the always-interesting service teams, Army defeated Boston College, 20-7, Navy battered Villanova, 41-7, and the Air Force beat Colorado State University, 32-8.

P: The scrappy Pittsburgh Pirates had won three doubleheaders in five days, the New York Yankees were off on a winning streak that included four straight over the challenging Baltimore Orioles, and both the Pirates and the Yankees were looking forward to a World Series next week that few had dared to predict when the season began.

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