Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-19
9 EASTERN TEAMS
TACKLE OUTSIDERS
Pitt-Notre Dame Contest
Tops List-Big Tits Due
in Conferences.
BY HERBERT w. BARKER,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

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n yEW YORK, October 1s.-The
M East will be the heaviest
Y contributor this week to
the most comprehensive
intersectional slate of the foot ball
season.
Nine major Eastern elevens are
booked for contests against teams
from other sections Pittsburgh,
Harvard, Carnegie Tech, George
town, West Virginia, Fordham,
Pennsylvania, Temple and Boston
College.
Pitts Panthers, apparently just about
as strong an array as the Atlantic sea-
board boasts, must tackle Notre Dame
in the Ramblers' stronghold at South
Bend. Pitt has won four straight
games, including victories over two
major opponents. Iowa and West Vir-
ginia, and boasts an uncrossed goal
line, but the most optimistic Panther
supporter scarcely anticipates triumph
over Notre Dame.
Harvard, fresh from its thrilling VIC
tory over Army. will stay at home to
entertain the Texas Longhorns. 1880
champions of the Southwest Confer
ence. Carnegie Tech and Penn must
meet strong Big Ten foes, the Tartans
battling Purdues Boilermakers, while
Penn is seeing what it can do about
checking Wisconsin's cracking offense.
Both these games will be played in the
East as will Fordham's duel with Drake
of the Missouri Valley Conference and
Boston Colleges tangle with Marquette.
Rounding out the Eastern intersectional
program will be a Friday night game
involving Temple and the Haskell
Indians.
Accompanying Pittsburgh into the
Midwest will be West Virginia and
Georgetown. West Virginia will clash
with Detroit while Georgetown faces
Michigan State.
DESPITE the heavy intersectionai
- slate all along the line there are
outstanding intrasectional or con-
ference games. Briefly here's the way
the conference or group games line up
with their possible effect on the stand
ings:
Big Ten: Northwestern and Ohio
State clash at Columbus in crucial
conference game Ohio State conquered
Michigan last Saturday. but North
western victory is indicated. Michi-
gan, with one conference victory and
che defeat hopes for another win at
Illinois expense. Indiana and Chicago
are paired in another conference bat
tie and Minnesota starts its league"
season against Iowa.
East: Army's clash with Yale will be
watched most closely of the ir1trasec-
tional games. Another outstanding
contest will pit Colgate against New
York University, both undefeated and
united. Navy will be favored over
Princeton after the Tigers crushing de-
feat by Cornell and Syracuse should dis
pose of Penn State with touchdowns to
spare. Washington and Jefferson will
occupy the favorite's role in the game
with an ancient rival, Lafayette, but
close game is indicated. Holy Cross
should dispose of Rutgers.
CoUTHERN CONFERENCE: Tennes-
y see. Tulane and Georgia. outstand-
ing contenders at present an
should win. Tennessee is matched with
North Carolina. Tulane with Georgia
Tech and Georgia with Vanderbilt
Other conference games involve Au-
burn-Florida. Virginia Washington and
Lee, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Military, Ala
ban1a -SeWanee and Virginia Poly-Ken-
lucky with South Carolina and Glenn
son paired for Thursday contest.
Pacific Coast-Southern California,
Win Inree SCTdlRnI VlCUOIl6S over CSdIIlS
from the northern end of the confer
ence. looks much too strong for Cali
fornia. Stanford, which started out
Saturday with an impressive win over
Oregon state, meets Washington. Wash
ington State will play Montana in the
only other conference game. oregon
will travel eastward to meet North
Dakota of the North Central Conference
at Grand Forks.
Rocky Mountain Conference-Utah
Aggies with three victories leads the
rest, but Utah, defending champion, re-
mains the favorite. Utah plays Denver
this week while the Aggies battle
Wyoming Colorado University faces
Colorado Aggies.
COUTHWEST-The only conference
- game involves Baylor and Texas
Aggies. Southern Methodist con-
fronts Centenary at Dallas. Rice plays
Arizona at Tucson, and Arkansas meets
Louisiana State at Shreveport.
Big Ska strictly conference
schedule sends Kansas against Nebraska,
Missouri against Iowa State and Okla
homa against Kansas State. with
Nebraska, Kansas State and Missouri
the favorites Kansas State leads the
procession by virtue of two victories
over Missouri and Kansas. Nebraska
has won its only conference start,
beating Oklahoma.