The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-10-24
NOTRE DAME WILL
INVADE STRONGHOLD
OF PITT PAINTERS
Syracuse Will Face Michigan
State; New York U and
Purdue Are Matched
MICHIGAN TO PLAY TIGERS
Iowa Matched With George
Washington; Indiana Awaits
Mississippi State
by The Associated Press

Conference races will be all but
abandoned this week as the nations
football leaders engage in the biggest
slate of intersectional games of the
season.
The midwest and east will be the
principal partners with nearly dozer
battles involving teams from different
sectors Of the football battlefront.
Heading all the rest is the duel of
the undefeated arrays of Pittsburgh
and Notre Dame in the Pitt Stadium
Notre Dame, which has averaged So
points in its first three games. will be
q top-heavy favorite. especially in
view of Pitts disappointing scoreleSs
tic with Ohio State, but the Panthers
should give the Ramblers plenty Of
opposition.
Other eastern International pair
irgs include Syracuse and Michigan
State, conqueror last week of Ford
ham; New York university and Pur"
due, undcfeated members Of the Big
Ten; Army and William 81 Mary,
which holds decision over the Navy,
Oglethorpe OF Atlanta and Manlat
tan. and George Washington and Iowa
OF the Big Ten. This latter game will
be played Friday night.
In the midwest. Michigan, leader
and favorite in the Big Ten. battles
Princeton. West Virginia plays Mar
ouette and Indiana takes its stand
against Mississippi A. and M. Detroit
will face Georgetown Friday night.
While future opponents ponder on
ways and means of stopping MIGHT
CANS rush toward the Western Con-
ference football championship. the
Wolverines will meet Princeton Sat-
urday in the top game Of the BIG
Tens biggest intersectional program
Northwestern failed to get full re-
venge Saturday from Purdue for last
years charity game defeat. but the
Wildcats did rally in time to gain a
7 to 7 draw and leave Michigan with
almost clear path to the title. Pur-
cue probably will not lose another
conference engagement, but that tie,
should Michigan conquer Indiana,
Chicago and Minnesota in its remain
ing championship games, would leave
the Wolverines in undisputed posses
sion of the title.
Michigan. apparently gaining mo-
mentum dealt Illinois 80 to 0 beat
ing Saturday, and unless the Hoosiers,
Maroons or Gophers develop uneX-
pected power, the championship will
land in Ann Arbor. Even with two
regular halfbacks, Stan Fay and Jack
Heston. out with injuries, Michigan
shifted its power around and swamped
the Illini without difficulty.
The Northwestern Purdue game
was just another example of the
Boilermakers unhappy inability to
turn yardage into touchdowns. Pur-
due outgained the Wildcats, II first
downs to four.
Chicago's 10 to 7 victory over In
diana amounted to wild upset. The
HoCsiers were rated as more powerful,
but the Maroons snatched both their
scoring opportunities and at the fin
ish staged successful stand against
a sensational Hoosier passing attack.
Minnesota did about as expected in
beating Iowa. 2l to 6, but the Haw-
eyes had the consolation of scoring on
conference opponent for the first
time since 1929.
Ohio State, huge Disappointment
in early major games. held one of the
casts best elevens, Pittsburgh, to a
scoreless tie, while Wisconsin moved
Coe down so easily, 80 to 0, tina:
Coach Clarence Spears gave the
Badgers a practice session after the
game.