The Washington times., 1931-10-26
UNDEFEATED.
TRIO LEAD
SOUTH
BY EDDIE CASEY

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BOSTON, Oct. 26.-With the
season half over, football fol.
lowers are more mix-minded
than they have been in years, at
this same time, as to the rela-
tive strengths Of football in the
various sections.
The east certainly has a
monopoly on undefeated teams,
and except in the case of the
Notre Dame-Pittsburgh game and
the Yale-Georgia games, eastern
teams have had excellent sue.
cess in tests against teams of
other sections. Victories of
Harvard over Texas, Pennsyl.
Van1a over Wisconsin, Fordham
over Drake and Army over
Michigan State are just a few
OF the major eastern triumphs.
For lack Of any early season
tests no general comparison NAV
be made as to the power
generated in the squads of the
Pacific Coast, in which section
st. Mary's is the most con.
spicuous possessor of an unde.
1eated, united rating.
Irish Strong Again
southern California and Stan.
1ord are outstanding teams
though the former was pressed
on Saturday to beat California
oy a single touchdown and stan.
ford was held to a tie by Wash.
lngton. Stanford's 1870 victory
over Minnesota earlier in the
season, however, was evidence
mat the coast teams are up to
standard. W
Notre Dame once again seems
70 have an exceptional eleven.
!ts victory over PITTSBURGH.
hitherto undefeated and nm.
scored upon, was . tribute tn
the versatility Of the first of
the post -ROckne teams. This
team, like those which have
preceded 1t, seems to have that
extraordinary ability of all
NOtre Dame teams of rising to
supreme heights when the 20
ing is hardest.
Georgia, Tulane and Tennessee
are the southern leaders. None
OF the trio has been defeated.
Tulane defeated Vanderbilt. 1870:
Georgia beat the same team, 90.
and Vanderbilt previously had
beaten Ohio State. Tennessee's
stock loomed high when it de-
feated Alabama, but it eked out
only a 7-to-6 win over North
Carolina which the previous week
had been defeated by Georgia,
1927.
The Southwest, which has pro-
duced some great teams in the
past, suffered an intersectional
game defeat by Harvard, 35-7, on
Saturday. Texas won the South
west conference title a year ago
and has been rated as strong
this year. 1t was a team which
had no offense, almost completely
built on a forward pass attack,
and it long ago was proved, that
a forward pass attack by itself
will not stand up.
Another intersectional game Of
note was the Penn-Wisconsin
meeting That to my mind fur
nished the most astonishing out
come Of the day. Penn, though
undefeated, had not been con.
Sidered a strong team, yet q
smashing victory Of the sort
scored over the conference team
indicates that Penn is a team to
watch.
Watch Minnesota
In the conference Northwest
ern is undefeated, and Minnesota
is a team to watch also. Aside
from a scoreleSs tie with Notre
Dame, Dick Hanley's Northwest
ern team has had clear sailing,
while Minnesota, on a compare
tive score basis, has plenty of
power.
Consider that Minnesota ON
Saturday defeated Iowa, $40.
A week earlier Iowa and In.
diana had played o sc0reTess
tie. Yet Indiana was able on
Saturday to defeat Chicago, 32-
8, eS compared with YaIe's 27.O
win over the same team.
In the East Brown, Columbia,
Cornell, Fordham, Harvard, New
York u, Syracuse and Penn still
are undefeated, though Fordham
was tied by Holy Cross, a team
which I am inclined to think is
very strong. Holy Cross on Sat-
urday defeated Rutgers, 27-0.
Yale proved against the army
that it is coming fast, and it is
possible that the Ellis found the
spark to make them a great team
when they came back on the next
plaV to tie Army after the cadets