Evening star., 1932-10-24
PITT, NOTRE DAME
IN STAGE CENTER
Irish Heavy Favorites Over
Unbeaten Panthers-Pur.
due Faces N. Y. U.
BY HERBERT w. BARKER,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

L
M Conference races will be all
/ Y but abandoned this week
as the Nations foot ball
leaders engage in the biggest
slate of intersectional games of
the season.
The Midwest and East will be the
principal storm centerS with nearly q
dozen battles involving teams from
different sectors of the loot bail battle
front.
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
top-heavy favCrite especially in view
of Pitts disappointing scoreleSs tie with
Ohio State. but the Panthers should
give the RambleTS plenty of opposition.
NTHER Eastern intersectional pair
~ lngs include Syracuse and Michigan
State, conqueror last week of Ford
nam: New York University and Purdue,
undefeated member of the Big Ten:
Army and William and Mary which
holos a decision over the Navy; Ogle-
| thorpe of Atlanta and Manhattan. and
George Washington and Iowa of the
Big Ten. This latter game will be
played Saturday night.
| In the Midwest, Michigan, leader and
| favorite in the Big Ten, battles Prince
ton, West Virginia plays Marquette and
Indiana takes its stand against Missis-
| sippi A. and M Detroit will face
Georgetown Friday night.
Within the major conferences the
situation after last weeks games might
be summarized as follows:
East-Colgate. Penn, Harvard, Brown,
Columbia, Pittsburgh. Holy Gross. Cor
nell and Temple the majo undefeated
leaders. with Colgate looking the best
after its sensational showing against
New York University. Cornell and Co
| lumbia and Harvard and Brown are
paired against one another this week.
Colgate plays a weak Penn State eleven,
Penn meets Navy. and Holy Cross faces
Catholic, one of the smaller undefeated
teams. Fordham and Boston College,
Villanova and Bucknell. Lafayette and
Washington and jefferson, Yale and
Dartmouth meet in other major intra-
sectional contests.
DIG TEN Michigan. the unques-
- toned leader and favored to win
its remaining conference games
with Indiana, Chicago and Minnesota
and gain the title outright. Chicago,
with one conference victory against no
defeats, plays Illinois this week. Mime
sofa meets Northwestern and Ohio
State battles Wisconsin.
South-Tennessee Auburn, Virginia
Poly. North Caroline STATE. South Caro-
/ lima and Louisiana State all undefeated
in the conference. with Tennessee and
Auburn conceded the best chance Of
finishing with perfect records. Ten
conference GarlcS on this weeks slate:
Tennessee Duke. Auburn Mississippi,
Louisiana Statc-Scwanec. North Caro-
lima State-North Carolina. South Caro-
lima Tulane. Virginia Poly Washington
and Lee. Kentuckv-Alabama. Georgia
Florida. .Maryland-Virginia Military and
Vsnderoilt-Georg;a Tech
Southwest Texas Christian and
Teas the cnly unGefeatad teams, with
Texas looking the stronger at this time
Both play this week. Texas Christian
meeting Baylor and Texas battling
/ Southern Methodist Rice. beaten by
Texas last week. plays Creighton Of
the Missouri Valley Conference, and
Texas A. ana NJ. meets Centenary Of
the Southern intercollegiate A. A.
which already holds decisions over
Texas and Southern Methodist.
DIG SIX-Nebraska, co-leader with
| - Oklahoma. plays Kansas State in
onlv conference game. Oklahoma
meets Oklahoma A. and NJ. leader Of
the Missouri Valley group: Kansas plays
! ST. Louis and Missouri meets Washing
! ton University OF s.. Louis. another
Missouri Valley Conference member.
Pacifc-U. c. L. A. nominal CO.
leader with Southern California, takes
on Stanford in biggest game Of the
day. If the Bruins get past Stanford.
they may finish the conference season
unbeaten and share the tCp with South
ern California. assuming the latter wins
from California, Oregon and Washing
ten. Washington State and Montana
meet in only other conference game
this week
Rocky Mountain-Utah. favored to
win title for fifth consecutive year. re-
sumes conference competition against
the Utah Aggies. Colorado Aggies, un-
defeated, but tied by Denver, play COL
orado College and Wyoming faces
Brigham Young in other conference
games.