Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-27
UTAH NEAR FOURTH
TITLE IN ROCKIES
Holiday Play Establishes Pitt
as Possible Best Team
in East.

BY the Associated Press.
N JEW YORK, November 81
M Aside from its traditional
l Y aspects, the Thanksgiving
day foot ball program
served to boost Tulane into undis-
puted possession of the Southern
Conference lead, give the Utah
Indians a chance to win their
fourth straight Rocky Mountain
Conference title and establish
Pittsburgh as possibly the strong
est of Eastern teams.
Tulane, although idle until Saturday
automatically gained sole possession o.
the Southern Conference lead wher
TennesSee'S unbeaten eleven found the
Kentucky Wildcats entirely too wild
and had to be satisfied with a Go tie
Tulane, with Louisiana State to beat In
Its t1nal conference game tomorrow, was
overwhelmingly favored to win cleaJ
title to the Southern crown.
Utah, the class of the Rocky Noun.
tain group for some years, buried ths
Utah Aggies under a $40 count to
wind up its conference slate undefeated
Pittsburgh, beaten only by Notre
Dame, showed amazing power and 0
versatile attack in crushing Nebraska.
400. Nebraska had expected to make
it close, but had no chance to stop the
Panthers. Pitt finished it's season un-
beaten in the East, tripping up West
Virginia, Penn State, Carnegie Tech
and the Army among Eastern rivals.
A S general rule there were few sur.
"A prises in other holiday results
Colgate, Holy Cross and New York
University, favorites ALL had to come
from behind to win. Colgate turned
back Brown, 1877; N. Y. u nosed out
Carnegie Tech, 7-6, and Holy Cross
just made the grade against Boston
College, also by a 7-6 count. Cornell,
beaten only by Dartmouth, wound up
highly successful season by whipping
Pennsylvania, TO. Maryland had little
trouble with Johns Hopkins and won,
35-14. North Dakota and George WASH
ington fought to a call tie.
In the Midwest, Indiana won the
big Tens" charity round robin. The
HooSierS beat Chicago, 60, in the final
round after being adjudged the winner
on first downs in a scoreless two-period
preliminary game against Illinois. Chi
cago won its way into the final by beat
ing Iowa, TO. Marquette took while
to get started against Drake, but finally
roIle0 up 52-6 count.
A LABANfA, finishing its Southern
n Conference schedule with a rush,
walloped Vanderbilt, 14-6; Auburn
just managed to stave of South Caro-
lina's many scoring bids to win, 1876;
Virginia Poly whipped Virginia Military,
1876, and North Carolina took" Vir-
GINA by the same count. Mississippi de-
feated the Mississippi Aggies, 25-14 in
the other conference game Of the day.
Chattanooga powerful team won the
Southern intercollegiate A. A. A. crown
by whipping Centre, 25-7. Howard of
Birmingham chalked up an interSec-
tional win at DuqueSne's expense, q3-6,
but Loyola of the South fell before
Santa Clara, 1877.
The Texas AggieS conquered Texas,
7-6, in their annual Southwest Confer
ence duel, while Arkansas outpointed
Centenary, 60. Oklahoma City won
its eleventh straight victory, beating
Tulsa, 14-0, but Oklahoma and Okla
homa A. and M. fought to scoreless
draw.
The University of California at Los
Angeles furnished the Pacific Coast
with its first victory over a Southern
team as the Bruins tripped up Florida,
1870. st. Mary's of Oakland returned
to form and walloped Oregon, 1910.
While Utah was clinching the Rocky
Mountain title, the Colorado Aggies de-
feated Denver, 300; Colorado College
trounced Colorado Mines, 20-7, and
Colorado Teachers turned back West
ern State, 1872. Wyoming beat New
Mexico, 1872, and Colorado University
was the winner over Arizona, 27-7.