Sport: Scoreboard, Oct. 12, 1953

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¶ 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 seconds to go, then made the extra point to win, 20-19.

¶ At Virginia Water, England, Britain's Ryder Cup golfers almost got the cup back from a defending team of U.S. pros —a feat which would have meant the first British victory in six tries, 20 years. Two missed short putts made the difference. The U.S. team, captained by Lloyd Mangrum, hung on to the cup again, 6½ points to 5½.

¶ At Belmont Park, a big brown colt named Porterhouse, of Llangollen Farm, ran away from a field of 13 other top two-year-olds to win the Belmont Futurity, $92,875, and delayed recognition as the pick of the two-year-old division. Despite his winning ways on the same track this year, the bettors sent him off at the unaccountably long odds of 7-1, while hustling to dump their money on the Midwest favorite, Hasty Road, which finished tenth.

¶ In Albany, Calif., after the Golden Gate Fields track veterinarian refused to permit two horses to run in the mile-and-sixteenth Millbrae Handicap, the stewards ordered Calumet Farm's Dixie Lad, whose trainer tried to scratch him, to race in order to keep the betting field at eight. Handicap's winner: Dixie Lad, who paid $31 on a $2 ticket.