Evening star., 1928-11-01
SOME OE.LEADERS
SLATED TOCLASH
Either Georgetown or N. Y. U.
to Be Eliminated in One.
of Battles. ss~,'' : IT,.
BY ALAN j. GOULD,

n YEW. YORK. November l.Foot
ball championship aspirations
sectional or national that have
taken bud in October face the
prospect of a killing frost, II
not a few destructive hlizzards, from
opposition territory in November.
The array of college elevens having
title hopes Of Nationwide concern as
they enter the final month of gridiron
campaigning headed for the storm
areas has dwtrdled to q select dozen
or so of hardy aggregations
They can't all weather the big blasts
of November, but among the foremost
are West Point, New York University
Georgetown and Carnegie in the East:
TenneSsee. Vanderbilt and Georgia
Tech in the Solth::' Nebraska, Iowa,
O1io State and Illinois In the Middle
west. Utah in the rugged Rocky Noun
tain area and Stanford on the Pacltlc
AS it happens, there are any number
of low-preSSure areas ahead OF most II
not all of. these 'oNtfits. IT Is pretty
we'll known that the unbeaten Army
eleven faces a s,iccessiAn Of blustery att
ernoons against such teams as Nefre
Dame. Nebraska and. Stanford before
the final returns. are tebulated on the
Cadet championship claims.
Stanford Has Hard Road. h.
All that, Stanford has to do in order
TO come East for the Army battle with
a clean college slate is to trim South
ern California this Saturday and then
mop up Santa Clara, washington anG
California. If there are, any soft,
spots" there, Pop Warmers men would
like to know about it..
The hopes of New. York University .or
GeorgetoWr should be abruptly settled
this weak These two scoring hurricanes
swirl into each other, and the shock
should be fcits for some distance be-
yond the confines of the Yankee Sta
dunn. '''s
No matter which wins, however, i
will have additional storm signals ahead.
N Y. us remaining list of opponents
includes Missouri, unbeaten Carnegie
and the Oregon AggieS. Georgetown
plays Carnegie next week, then WesS
Virginia, Fordham and Detroit. all
strong teams. Carnegie plays Notre
Dame in between these engagements
with Georgetown and N. Y. U.
There will be no dispute about it If
Ohio State finishes with a clean slate
and wins the big Ten" title. The
Buckeyes after battling Princeton this
week, play Iowa ana IIlmoies at present
the only two remaining conference
teams neither beaten nor tied.
Vanderbilt and Georgia Techs Golden
Tornado. two of the outstanding South
ern conference contenders with un-
blemished records. settle their private
argument next week. at Atlanta 5,
The University. d, Titan Indians have
stalked unbeaten through good share
of their difficult schedule. On success
sive Saturdays they have disposed Of
two outstanding rivals for Rocky Noun
tain conference hopofs and they OPP
pose a third, Colorado College, this
Saturday, in what may be the deciding
game of the series.
It will take a lot OF master -minding
to pick this years All-America quarter
back, at the rate any Ynitsfiher of them
have been performing sos far. The
Pacific Coast has pi(ts the spotlight on
Don Williams of So1tnern California.
The Middle esticountefs With al, least
one outstanding star in fred Hcvds Of
Minnesota, while Ane East contributes