New Britain herald., 1929-11-25
FOOTBALL CLIMAX
 COMES THIS WEEK
Djub!e.Barre!e1 Feature on
 Thursday and Saturday

N,w York, Nov. 95 tP,-Thc col
 l,er Gridiron campaign faces it's
 doUblc- barrolcd climax this week. on
 Thanksgiving Day and Saturday,
 with every prospect Of a scnsa-
 tional finish 10 the championship races still undecided.
 The fate Of six of the seven major
 title contcndcrs l,s involved. Purdue.
 champion of the Big Ten, has dou-
 blc-riyctcd it's place in the top group
 by finishing the season with a clean
 and impressive slate of eight vic
 tories but Pittsburgh in the east, Notre Dame in tLe midwest, Ten ncssuc and Tulane in the south.
 Texas Christian in the southwest, and St. Mary's on the Pacific coast,
 all stake their title aspirations in important battles this week.
 None ot these teams has tasted defeat or tie. except St. Mary's,
 which was held to a scoreless dead lock by California but nevertheless
 remains as the outstanding team on
 the Pacific coast so far as the rec crds are concerned, since Stanford's s 2l-G defect Of California scrambled the big confcronc. race in the far
 west
 On Thanksgiving bay, Pittsburgh
 will seek to cliuch it's claim 10 tbc ! eastern championship as well as the
 1 Tp I,,. i ing Penn State. In the south, Ten ] ncE&ec will tackle Kentucky at Lex
 inGton and Tulane will oppose 1 Louisiana state 10 determine per haps the final southern conference
 rating. Nebraska. by defeating Iowa
 State in another holiday tilt, can clinch the Big Six crown once more. Notrc Dame. on Saturday. will ! battle the Army stt the Yankee Sta dium in the most colorfu fray Of the
 week. an eastern climax game that shadows even such attractive contests as tn" Corncll-Pcm and
 Navy y-Dar,mouth contests. both at Franklin Field, Philadelphia.
 Triumphant in eight successive
 8amc8 2s the IIOosicr. machine was
 swept brilliantly toward the national
 peak. Notrc Dame will run into a i determined Army eleven, featuring { the last eastern charge of the all ! America halfback. Red Cagle. Ap- | proX;matcly S0,00O spectators arc l expected to see Captain Caelc match 1 his individual passing and running l powers against the great Notre 1 Dame cast. Tho lIOosicrs will be l handica pped by tho absence of their | ailing coach, Knuto Roclne. as well
 as by the loss of Tim Moynihan, | dynamic center. who suffered a ] broken leg in the 2G-G victory Sat urdaY over Northwestern, but the i HoosicrS so far have had the stuff i to rise to every emergency. Army l has yet to win & major game but if
 the Cadets can upset Notre Dame, it ] will be sufficient balm for all the i bad breaks they have had this year. The southwest expects scnsa- 1 tional fight for its conference hon. 1 or3 when the Texas Christian Horned 1 Frogs tanglc with the Southern 1 Methodist Mustangs Saturday. The i Frogs beat the Baylor Bears Satur- ! day by a margin of A 10 [ that was
 more decisive than that registered ! the week before by $. NJ. |. But ! there is not much 10 choose between 1 this weeks main rivals.
 On the coast, St Marys must beat i oregon 10 keep at the top of the 1 head. southern California, by de l featinS Washington State. can claim
 at least q percentage edge in the i Pacific coast conference race. Vie i tory would give the Troians six tri- 1 unphs out Of seven conference games. Stanford has finished with , five out Of six and California with four out Of five. IL was a stand off SO far as the Big Three was con- cerncd. California losing to Stanford
 hy beating Southern California which had previously trimmed Stanford. For tho second straight year, Harvard has closed m in-and out ! season by downing its ancient rival,