Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-12
FLORIDA AND YALE
MAKE |NvAS|ONS
Gators vs.. STacuss, mis-
VS.. Chicago Headline Inter.
sectional Play.
BIZ HERBERT ". BARKER,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

n JEW YORK, October ~
M Most Of the Nations lead
i ing foot ball teams put
aside intersectional tests
this week in favor Of a little home
work. The program will not lack
for big time intersectional battles,
but in the main the outstanding
duels will be strictly intraconfer-
ence.
Topping the intersectional trays will
be Florida's northern invasion to tackle
Syracuse; Yales initial trip into the
Midwest to play Chicago; Missouri's tan
gle with Colorado University at Boul-
der and Oklahomas tussle with Texas
at Dallas.
Briefly here's how the various big
conference schedules shape up:
East-HarYard'S first real test will
come against the Army at West Point
with the Cadets heavy favorites. Cor
nell, one of the Eastern dark horses"
will face Princeton and should win.
Dartmouth and Columbia, both unde-
feated, meet at New York, with the
former holding the Indian sign" on
Columbia in recent years. Other out
standing clashes Saturday bring to-
gether Villanova and Boston College,
Holy Cross and Fordham, Rutgers and
New York University, Washington and
Jefferson and Western Maryland Ford
ham and Boston College open the week
with q game at Boston today. This
F4orida-SyracuSe battle tops the inter
sectional program with Washington and
Lee meeting West Virginia at Charles
ing Pitt at Pittsburgh.
DIG TEN: Michigan and Purdue,
- with one Conference victory apiece
both are down for championship
tests, the former against Ohio State
and the latter against Wisconsin. In
diana and Iowa will be foes in the
Chicago. beaten by Michigan last week,
tackles Yale and Northwestern will en-
terrain the University of California
Southern Branch, Illinois, victim Of
Purdue last Saturday. meets Bradley
in a "breather" Minnesota will be
idle. Among the independents, Notre
Dame is slated to face Drake of the
Missouri Valley Conference and Mar
quette will play Detroit Friday night.
Big Six: The annual clash between
Kansas and Kansas State heads the
weeks program. Oklahoma and Mis-
souri, play intersectional opponents. the
former facing Texas at Dallas and the
latter meeting Colorado University at
Boulder, Nebraska and Iowa State have
open dates.
COUTHWEST: Duel between Rice
- and Southern Methodist heads the
slate, in view of Rice's victory over
Texas. Other Conference games pit
4 ~
tan and Baylor against Arkansas.
Texas plays Oklahoma.
Southern Conference: Eight confer
ence games this week, but the most i'm
portant will bring together Tennessee
and Alabama, Vanderbilt and Tulane.
North Carolina and Georgia and Mary
land and Kentucky. Georgia will be
favored over North Carolina and Ken
lucky over Maryland. but the other two
games look like toss-ups.
Pacific Coast: Another big week for
conference games. Southern Cali
fornia, with two conference victorics,
tackles oregon. victor Saturday ever
Washington. Stanford will make it
first start against oregon State and
California against Washington State
Washington will face Idaho In the
other conference struggle.
Rocky Mountain: Utah Aggies and
Denver, the present leaders, meet in
important clash at Logan. The cham
pion Utah University Indians, with one
conference win. play Brigham Young
Other conference games will bring to-
gether Colorado Mines and Western
State; Colorado Teachers and Colorado
College, wyoming and Montana State
Colorado University will play host to
Missouri.