October
October 2 Michigan won at Northwestern 21-7. Notre Dame beat Georgia Tech 55-13. Army defeated Colgate 42-0 and Navy beat Cornell 46-7.
October 9 #1 Notre Dame beat #2 Michigan, 35-21. #3 Army registered another shutout, defeating Temple 51-0. In Baltimore, #4 Navy edged #5 Duke, 14-13. #6 Penn edged Dartmouth 7-6. #7 Purdue went to 4-0-0 with a 19-0 win over Camp Grant.
October 16 #1 Notre Dame won at Wisconsin 50-0. #2 Army won at Columbia, 52-0. In four games, the Cadets had outscored their opponents 172-0. #3 Navy beat Penn State 14-6. #4 Penn beat the Lakehurst Naval Air Station 74-6. #5 Purdue beat Ohio State 30-7 at a game in Cleveland.
October 23 #1 Notre Dame beat Illinois 47-0. #2 Army yielded its first points, but won at Yale, 39-7. #3 Navy beat Georgia Tech 28-14 in Baltimore. #4 Purdue beat Iowa 28-7. #5 Penn won at Columbia, 33-0, but dropped from the Top Five. #7 USC stayed unbeaten, untied, and unscored upon with a 6-0 win over Pacific.
October 30 In Cleveland, #1 Notre Dame beat #3 Navy, 33-6. In Philadelphia, #2 Army and #6 Pennsylvania played to a 13-13 tie. #4 Purdue won at Wisconsin, 32-0. #5 USC beat California, 13-0, for its sixth straight shutout.
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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)