Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-09
SECTIONAL SCRAP
IS ALSO NATIONAL
Only Commodore Eleven of
South's Big Four Has
Tasted Defeat.
BY HERBERT w. BARKER,

N GW 1OIIEA, 1NONCA1ADCL o.
IN For the first time this sea-
4 Y son, intersectional foot ball
competition will play sec
ond fiddle this week to strictly sec
tional combat, with the South and
East as the principal storm cen
tiers.
The South, in fact, becomes the
foot ball capital of the Nation, at
least for a day, with the crucial
encounters between Georgia and
Tulane on the one hand and Ten
neSsee and Vanderbilt on the
other.
Georgia, Tulane and Tennessee all
are un1beaten and united, while Wander
bilt, after accepting beatings from Tu-
lane and Georgia. has come along fast
In recent weeks. These two games not
only will have a vital bearing on the
Southern Conference race but also will
affect the mythical national standings
in which the three unbeaten Southern
outfits rank close to the top.
IN the East, in spite of such intersec-
i tional contests as those involving
Notre Dame and Navy, Georgia Tech
and Penn, and Washington and Lee
and Princeton, far greater interest will
center on a half dozen sectional Strug-
giles. OF the major unbeaten Eastern
teams, Cornell, Harvard, Syracuse.
Fordhsm, Temple and Bucknell, all
face possible trouble.
tn, Do
ference titles virtually have been
clinched by Northwestern and Southern
California, and apparently nothing can
stop Utah from annexing the Rocky
Mountain crown again. A wide-open
fight between Southern Methodist and
Texas Christian features the Southwest
Conference and Nebraska, Iowa State
and possibly Kansas State all have a
chance for the Big Six championship
DRIEFLY, here's the weeks schedule
- and its possible effect on cham
pioIsl1ip races:
TA5T-Holy Cross trounced Harvard
IL .eSr and may again, fer the Gin
81 must tn nix of the Yale game
We. hcn-c. Cornell, also unbsaten, will
FIND Dartmouth troublesome; Forham
viii BE- tested to the utmost by New
York University, Temple by Carnegie,
Syre cuse by Colgate and Bucknell by
Washington and Jefferson. Army and
1.svy viii draw huge crowds, the first
against Pitt at Pittsburgh and Navy
against Metre. Dame at Baltimore. The
Ar.ay-Citt struggle looks like toss-up,
bit f.otre Dame, with three straight
E.nj over Eastern foes, looks touch
downs better than Navy.
SOUTE-Crucial games between Tu-
lane and Georgia, at Athens, Ga, and
Tennessee and Vanderbilt at Knoxville
will clarity Southern Conference race.
Seven other conference games on the
slate pitting South Carolina against
Florida, Sewanee against Auburn, Ken
lucky against Virginia Military, North
Carolina State against Duke, Louisiana
State against Mississippi, Virginia Poly
against Virginia and Clemson against
Alabama.
AEDwEST-with Northwestern ap-
1Vx parently Gin" as Big Ten cham
pions, interest centers on race
for second place, with five teams still
having o chance Northwestern meets
Indiana and should win as it pleases.
Iowa plays Purdue, Ohio State battles
Wisconsin and Illinois encounters Chi
cago. Michigan goes outside the con-
ference to meet Michigan State. De-
troit, an independent, faces Villanova.
Big Six-NebraSka and Iowa State are
the current leaders. Kansas State will
have to turn back Nebraska this week
or suffer elimination from the race.
Iowa State, after meeting Drake In a
n-conference game, plays Nebraska
November 81 In the game that prob
ably will decide the race. Oklahoma and
Missouri are opponents in conference
battle this week.
Southwest-Southern Methodist and
Texas Christian, the leaders, possibly
will determine the championship when
they meet November g. Southern
Methodist will be favored over Baylor
this week and Texas Christian over
Texas, although this latter game prob
ably will be close. Rice and Texas A.
and NJ are matched in another confer
ence game.
Rocky Mountain-Utah, the almost
certain winner, plays Colorado Univer-
Sity. Other conference engagements
send Colorado College against Denver
and Utah Aggies against Colorado Ag-
gies.
Pacific Coast-Northern section takes
the spotlight with the Washington
State Washington and Oregon State
Oregon games. Southern California, far
out in front, should romp through Mon
tana, as should California through
Idaho and Stanford through Nevada.