Evening star., 1932-11-07
FIELDS NARROWED
IN OTHER SECTIONS
Brown and Columbia Clash
Observation-Disclosures
Meets Vanderbilt.
BY HERBERT w. BARKER,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

n YEW YORK, November T.
N Foot balls conference races
/ Y today had reached the
point where only in the
East and South were there more
than two contenders still seriously
in the running.
1t was Michigan and, step behind,
Purdue in the Big Ten; Southern Cali
fornia and the University of California
at Los Angeles in the Far West; Ne
braska in the Big Six; Texas and Texas
Christian in the Southwest; Utah and
possibly, but not probably, Denver In
the Rocky Mountain.
The situation was slightly more COM
plex in both the East and South, where
the fields are unwieldly and where
championship ratings are not always
clearly defined. In the South, the only
undefeated contenders we're Tennessee,
Auburn, Louisiana State and Wander
bilt, the latter, however, tied by Tu-
lane.
an the records, Pittsburgh, Colgate,
~ Brown. Columbia and Army looked
like the class of the Eastern field.
Army, beaten by Pitt earlier in the sea-
son, has come along fast as its 46-0
rout of Harvard demonstrated, and
seems to boast about as much power, as
any eleven on the Atlantic Seaboard.
Briefly here's how the conference
races shaped up as the teams prepared
for their second November engage
mepts:
East-Brown and Columbia, both un-
beaten and united, battle in New York
in the most vital struggle from cham
pionship aspect. Colgate should win
easily from Syracuse, and Pitt, travelling
into the Midwest, will be favored over
Nebraska. Other intersectional games
will pit Penn against Ohio State at
Columbus, Carnegie against Xavier at
Cincinnati and Army-North Dakota
State, Navy-Maryland, Villanova-De-
troit and Washington and Lee-West
Virginia all in the East. Princeton and
Yale, Cornell and Dartmouth, Harvard
and Holy Cross and Fordham and New
York University, meet in other i'm
portant battles.
DIG TEN-Northwestern renews its
- feud with Notre Dame, with the
Ramblers heavily favored. A four
game conference slate finds Michigan
favored over Chicago and Purdue over
Iowa, with the Wisconsin Minnesota
and Illinois-1ndiana contests promising
closer action.
Pacific Coast-Southern California
continues its conference schedule against
Oregon. with Washington and Washing
ton State, California and Idaho, and
Oregon State and Montana the other
championship combatants U. c. L. A.,
co-leader with Southern California,
plays st. Mary's Gaels Friday.
South-TenneSsee's greatest test ap-
pears in the shape of Vanderbilt.
Auburn IS heavily favored over Florida,
while Louisiana State, only other con-
tender, plays a non-conference game
with undefeated Centenary. Other con-
ference games include Georgia Tech
and Alabama, North Carolina State and
Duke, Kentucky and Tulane, Missis-
sippi and Sewanee, Virginia Poly and
Virginia and Clemson and Georgia.
DIG SIX-Nebraska, apparently ''in"
- as conference champion, plays
Pittsburgh in an important inter-
sectional contest. Missouri surprise
victor over Oklahoma, meets Kansas,
and Iowa State battles Oklahoma in
conference games.
Southwest-Crucial game of the sea-
son pits Texas against Texas Christian
on Friday. The winner seems almost
certain to emerge as conference cham
pion. Other conference games include
Rice and Texas A. M and Arkansas
and Southern Methodist. Baylor seems
due for another drubbing from Texas
Tech, a non-conference foe.
Rocky Mountain-Utah meets Den
yer, its only remaining rival, in the
most important game. Denver. un-
beaten but tied by the Colorado Aggies.
seems due for trimming. Utah Aggies
and Colorado Aggies. Wyoming and
Colorado Teachers, Colorado College
and Colorado University and Colorado
Mines and Western State play other
conference games.