New Britain herald., 1929-11-11
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-FOUR B|G GAMES
 ARE ON PROGRAM
Quartet Of GridirOn Battles Hold
 Special Significance

college football campaign fast draw ing "a spectacular close, tradition plays q big part in this weeks foot ball slate but for those who focus mostly upon the standing of the teams four battles hold special sig nitiCanCc in the cast, west and south.
 From this angle tho big gam IS are Notrc Dame Southern Califor- mia at Soldier Field Purdue-Iowa at Lafayette, Tennessee Vanderbilt at Knoxville and Pittsburgh -Carne- gio at Pitt Stadium.
 All have distinct bearing upon sectional as well as national cham pionship aspirations. for no teams anywhere have travcled q more int prcssivc route to victory to date than Notrc Dame. Purdue, Pitts burgh and Tennessce--al four un- beatcn\all united and all possessing terrific scoring punch with q fo@h of such great ball-Carriers number cd in their ranks as Elder and Ca ridco Harmeson and Welch, Unaa
 ga and Parkinson and McEver ani Hackman.
 Southern Calfornia's setback at the hands of California, now tn" ring leader of the far western clan. upset some Of tho significance Of | the clash with Notrc Dame at Chi Cago, where close to l20,000 spccta- tors may be in on the party. But ! ,1f priming all season for Rocknc's S l Ramblcrs and they may be the out | fit to stop the wild surge Of tho South Bend cyclone. Notrc Dame has swept through Indiana. Wis consin, Navy, Carnegie, Georgia
 Tech and Drake. The Hoosicrs will
 be ready with a, bagful of tricks for
 |, $. (. but they cannot shoot thu,
 works altogether, inasmuch as i Northwestern and the Army still
 turk along the path 10 an unbcGtea l sea son.
 Purduc's Boilermakers lead the | Rig Ten all by them selves thanks to i IoWa's upset Of Minnesota. Tho trouble with this situation, is that | the same Iowa cast. starring Glass GoW and the fiashy Pape. travels to | Lafayette this week with another upset in mind. Purdue. playing it homo, figures to be a favoritc but
 not hy very much.
 l Pittsburgh has steam rol,2rcd sev-
 en opponents. The Panthers have 1 the class to trim Carnegie but this 1 city warfare is one of the bitterest Of the year. The TartanS hell Notre Dame to one touchdown and ! may spring an upset.
 i Tho southern scramble finds tha
 two Tennessee rivals locked in a l battle that may decide the confer 1 ence championship or at least de termine whether the volunteers or | the Vanderbilt Commodores will
 share the peak with Tulane. Ten nesseo, high scoring outfit among l the teams neither beaten nor tied, 1 has not been beaten in three years. i but their winning streak will be subjected to a severe test by Eandy. Yale meets Princeton at New H1- ven in the biggest traditional game of the week, and anything may hap pen. For three weeks in a row the 1 Blue was unbeatable, with Alb:2 | Booth running wild. but Southern ! Conference foes have spoiled any claim the Ellis otherwise might havc | had to championship recognition. 1 They were upset by Georgia early i in October and tied last Saturday i by Maryland, 13-13. after Booth ap- l parcntly had settled the issue and | left the game. Now Yale faces q desperate Princeton team that ha1 i lost three of it's major games an1 tied the other. The battered Tigers
 are distinctly the underdogs bu; i they will be all set for a come back, | if Ed WittmnT can wage d mor1
 successful duel with Albe Booth
 than either Red Caglc of the Army
 or Al Marstcrs of Dartmouth was
 able to dO
 If any further flavor is desired .n
 eastern rivalry, such games as Cor nelf-Dartmouth, Colgate Syrac cusc and Harvard Holy Cross can furn- | ish it. Cornell is among the few | teams with a clean slate and will | tackle Darmouth without having tc
 worry about Al Marsters. out of thr game for the rest of the season
 Colgate served warning on it. | Orange rival by a smashing G3.i
 victory over Columbia Saturday.
 The Army, back home after d..
 feat by Illinois. has a let-up agains
 Dickinson while looking ahead tc
 the battle with Notre Dame. New
 York University, after rallying tc l beat Georgia, seeks another inter
 sectional scalp, Missouri, this week
 Michigan, having trimmed liar
 ward, while Minnesota was yieldin;
 to Iowa, now regards the tussl,
 with the Gophers more hopeful! than before. The Wolverines ma. win if they can stop Big Bronx, ! Nagurski, Mnnesota's dcfcnsiv, tackle and offensive fullback.
 Nebraska has chance to clincl
 the Big Six title again by beatiui OkIahoma On the Pacific coast l 'dllloIIlld IluSi peat W dSIllllSIOll l' stay on ton and that may be any thing but 3 soft assignment sine
 the Husllies staged T great come hack to hold Stanford to a singl touchdown victory Saturday. TeX1 Christian, the only undcfcatod an, united team in the Southwest con I ference, must dispose of Texas, scc
 ond place holder. to maintain 1t
 supremacy. Southern Methodist au' Baylor. neither Of which is out o the race, fight it for the rcmainin.
 honors.
 SINGER AS LIGHTWEIGHT