October
October 3 St. Mary's won again, at California, 14-0, and USC won its first game of the season, beating Oregon State 30-0. Tennessee beat Clemson 44-0 and Tulane defeated Texas A&M 7-0. Northwestern beat Nebraska 19-7. Purdue opened its season for the home crowd with a doubleheader, beating Ohio's Western Reserve 28-0, followed by a 19-0 win over Iowa's Coe College
Pittsburgh won at Iowa, 20-0 Georgia beat Virginia Tech 40-0 Harvard defeated Bates College, 28-0 and Yale beat Maine, 19-0 Notre Dame won at Indiana 25-0
October 10 In Chicago, a crowd of 75,000 turned out at Soldier Field to watch Northwestern and Notre Dame played to a 0-0 tie in a driving rain. Tennessee defeated Ole Miss 38-0. USC beat Washington State 38-6. Harvard beat New Hampshire, 39-0. In New Haven, the Georgia Bulldogs handed the Yale Bulldogs their first defeat, 26-7. Purdue beat Illinois 7-0 Pittsburgh beat West Virginia 34-0. Tulane defeated Spring Hill College 40-0 and St. Mary's beat the West Coast Army team, 21-7
October 17 Tulane and Vanderbilt, both 3-0-0, met at Nashville, with Tulane winning 19-0 Tennessee and Alabama, both 3-0-0, met at Knoxville, with UT winning 25-0. USC defeated visiting Oregon 53-0. Northwestern beat visiting UCLA 19-0 Georgia won at North Carolina, 32-7. Yale beat Chicago 27-0 and Harvard got past Army 14-13. Purdue lost at Wisconsin 21-14. Pittsburgh defeated Western Reserve, 32-0. Notre Dame defeated Drake 63-0. St. Mary's beat the University of San Francisco, 14-6. Neither SMC or USF play college football anymore.
October 24 Notre Dame (3-0-0) and Pittsburgh (4-0-0) met at South Bend, with Notre Dame winning 25-12. Tulane beat Georgia Tech 33-0; Tulane had outscored its five opponents 130-0. Tennessee won at North Carolina, 7-0; it had outscored its five foes 147-0. Georgia beat Vanderbilt 9-0. Harvard beat visiting Texas, 35-7 and Yale and Army played to a 6-6 tie, while in Pittsburgh, Purdue defeated Carnegie Tech 13-6. Northwestern defeated Ohio State in Columbus, 10-0. St. Mary's beat visiting Gonzaga University, 13-7. USC won at California 6-0
October 31 Tulane beat Mississippi State, but not without surrendering its first points, in a 59-7 win; likewise, Tennessee beat Duke, but was scored upon for the first time, in its 25-2 win Georgia won at Florida, 33-6. Northwestern beat visiting Illinois 32-6 and Purdue won at Chicago 14-6. Harvard beat Virginia 19-0 and Yale and Dartmouth played to a 33-33 tie. Pittsburgh won at Penn State, 41-6 Notre Dame defeated Carnegie Tech 19-0. Surprising St. Mary's extended its record to 6-0-0 with a 21-14 win over Santa Clara.
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“The autumnal change of our woods has not yet made a deep impression on our own literature yet. October has hardly tinged our poetry.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)