The Bismarck tribune., 1931-11-09
H0OSIERS AND iowa
ONLY OBSTACLES IN
PATH OF WILDCATS
Only Startling Upset Can De-
prive Evanston Team of Big
Ten Supremacy
GOPHERS GIVE THEM SCARE
lntersectional Tits Give Way to
Sectional Clashes This
Weekend

Chicago, Nov. 9.-(P)-Unless the
biggest upset of the western confer
ence football season has not yet been
recorded, Northwestern's Wildcats
can spend the rest Of the campaign
working on the business of becoming
All-American selections.
Northwestern crushed Minnesota
Saturday, 80 to IA, to remove the last
high ranking threat from it's path,
and have only to take care of In
diana and Iowa on the next two
Saturdays. Iowa and Indiana have
a combined record of one victory and
three defeats, along with mutual
ly owned tie, and nothing they have
done would lead to suspicion that
either might upset the untamed
Wildcats.
Beside the Indiana
game Saturday, six other Big Ten
elevenS will meet in conference COM
petition. Ohio State and Wisconsin,
participants in a four-way tie for
third place in the ranking, will tangle
at Madison; Iowa will meet Purdue
at Lafayette, and Chicago and Hi
nois will stage their renewal at
Champaign. Michigan, holder of
second place, entertains an old, and
often very troublesome foe in Mich
igan State college, while Minnesota
will take q workout on Cornell
Oowa) college at Minneapolis. Notre
Dame will make its second excursion
into the east to meet Navy at Balti-
more.
Minnesota was even tougher than
advertised against Northwestern Sat-
urday, and for 30 minutes it looked
as though a stunning upset was in
the making. The Gophers led by IA
to Z at the half, but after Pug Rent
ner ran back kickoff for IS yards
and a touchdown, following it up
with an 80 yard return of punt for
another score, it was Wildcat
parade.
Michigan gained temporary pos
session of second place by mauling
Indiana, % to 0. Wisconsin defeated
Illinois, to 6.
Ohio State found Navy easy and
scored 20 to 0 victory. Purdue spot
ted Centenary of Louisiana, six
points, then cut loose for seven
touchdowns and a 49 to triumph.
Chicago came within three min
utes of winning its first victory since
the first day of the season, but wound
up in a 1913 tie with Arkansas. Iowa
lost its fifth decision of the season, Z
to o, to Nebraska.
For the first time this season, in
tersectional football competition will
play second fiddle this week to strict
ly sectional combat with the south
and east as the principal storm CEN
tiers.
The south, In fact, becomes the
football capital of the nation, at least
for a day, with the crucial encoun-
ters between Georgia and Tulane or
the one hand, and Tennessee anc
Vanderbilt on the other. Georgia
Tulane and Tennessee all are un.
beaten and united while Vanderbilt
after accepting beatings from Tulane
and Georgia, has come along fast II
recent weeks. These two games not
only will have a vital bearing on thu
southern conference race but alse
will affect the mythical nationa
standings in which the three un'
beaten southern outfits rank close tt
the top.
In the east, in spite Of such In.
tersectional contests as those involv.
ing Notre Dame and Navy. Georgis
Tech and Penn, and Washington &
Lee and Princeton, far greater in
terest will center on a half dozer
sectional struggles. OF the major un
beaten eastern teams, Cornell, Har
ward, Syracuse, Fordham, Temple
and Bucknell all face possible trouble
The Big Ten and Pacific coast con
ference titles virtually have beer
clinched by Northwestern and South
ern California and apparently nothing
can stop Utah from annexing tn
Rocky Mountain crown again. 1
wide open fight between Southern
Methodist and Texas Christian feat
ures the southwest conference an,
Nebraska, Iowa State and poSsibl,
Kansas State all have chance TO
the Big Six championship.