The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-03
MIDWEST HOLDS GRID SUPREMACY NOtre Dame Sets Pace In Winning Sectional
 Fights
(By Associated Press,)

NEW YORK, Dec. 2.-The mantle of intersectional gridiron supremacy has passed from the east to the middle-west for the first time in football history.
 Three outstanding intersectional bat ties remain to be played on the Pacific coast but these can not affect the final standing which, based upon an analysis of the regular playing schedule just completed, show that the Atlantic sea- board no longer can boast of a pre- eminent place on the gridiron map.
 These figures show that the middle west, with Notre Dame's famous un- beaten and united eleven setting the pace, captured 12 out of 21 intersec- tional games, for percentage of .571 as compared with the casts record of 15 victories and 12 defeats for mark of .555.
 Win Important Games
 The comparative performance of east and middle-west, however, were not as even as the figures might indicate. The middle-west not only subdued eastern rivals in nine out of 15 games but included practically all the most i'm, portant contests among it's vl- -"ries. The east fattened its average Chiefly in competition with the south, taking nine out of twelve games with oppo- nents below the Mason and Dixon line where the seasons record showed a total of only six victories against eleven setbacks in intersectional combat.
 Notre Dame, besides gaining recogni- tion generally as the most formidable array in the country, also showed the best intersectional record, registering four victories altogether. Three were compiled in the east, where Army and Princeton were scheduled on successive Saturdays and Carnegie Tech downed last Saturday, while the fourth was gained at the expense of a southern rival, Georgia Tech.
 The middle-west also scored note worthy intersectional triumphs when Chicago, the new Western Conference champion, defeated Brown, while Ne braska took the measure of Colgate. Marquette added to the record with vic tories over Navy and Vermont, although the Milwaukee eleven bowed to Boston college in a third contest.
 The south's outstanding intersectional were hung up by Vanderbilt, which beat Minnesota after the latter had conquered Illinois, and by Georgia Tech, which turned back Penn State.
 Army recorded three intersectional victories to offset its defeat at the hands of Notre Dame, while Yale's powerful defeated three southern teams.
 Three Big Battles.
 Three big intersectionals are slated for the Pacific coast within the next few weeks. Syracuse opposes Southern California next Saturday in the first of these, while on New Years Day, four unbeaten teams clash when Notre Dame plays Stanford at Pasadena and tackles California. The far west lost the only game in which it figured so far when the Oregon Aggies bowed to Nebraska.
 Three intersectional contests added flavor to the season, with American cams victorious in all of them. Dart mouth and Detroit university conquered Canadian opponents, McGill and To- onto, respectively, and Southern uni 7ersity defeated the eleven of Havana of Cuba.
 The intersectional standing in details blows: East Midwest So. F'west W. l., Pct. 1