Evening star., 1932-11-14
ROSE BOWL DATE
/. BECKONS PANTHER
Choice May Hinge on Strong
Finish-MiChigan Near
Big Ten Title.
BY HERBERT w. BARKER,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

Associated Press Sports Writer.
N JEW YORK, November IA
M The mythical national
/ Y foot ball crown may find
no head to fit it comfort
ably this year for the first time
in many a season.
Seldom has there been a cam
paign where there were so few
teams at this late date with clear
cut claims to consideration when
the balloting began for the Ma
tion'S champion"
There are plenty of contenders, Of
course, but many Of them can be
eliminated, whatever the actual fair
ness, on the ground that their schedules
have not been comprehensive enough
to warrant serious consideration for
them.
efforts to select three or four outStand-
ing machines and Jumped Southern
California, Pittsburgh, Michigan. Au-
burn, Brown, Colgate, Army, Purdue,
Tennessee, Vanderbilt and Texas
Christian, and perhaps one or two
others, together in the top bracket and
let it go at that.
EoR time it appeared that Pitt,
l. playing a suicide schedule" might
earn almost general recognition,
but the Panthers' two scoreleSs ties,
with Ohio State and Nebraska, have
done their claims no particular good.
However, should the Pittsburgh outfit
ka aIr fn Horoaerfa FTtort4 av,1
Stanford in its last two regularly
scheduled games, they can retrieve most
Of the ground they've lost. In that
event, they would be the most likely
Eastern team to receive a bid to COM
pete In the Rose Bowl game at Pasa-
dena New Year day, probably against
Southern California. Should the
Trojars, as seems probable, enter that
game Indefeated then the winner
might well be generally recognized as
national champion.
The season begins to taper of this
week SIS many teams will be idle until
Thanksgiving day. Most of the de-
cisive action IS to be fought in the
big 10 which closes its season Sat
urday.
HERE are the prospects for this
Big Ten-Michigan can cinch the
conference title by beating Minnesota.
Purdue, an almost certain winner over
Indiana, can slip into the championship
If Michigan should lose. The remainder
of the conference program sends Illinois
aRainss Ohio state, Northwestern
against Iowa, and Chicago against Wis
consin. Other leading Middle Western
contests involve Navy and Notre Dame
at Cleveland; Michigan State and De-
troit; Marquette and Washington and
jefferson, and Creighton and Wyoming.
East--Brown and Colgate, unbeaten
and united, will rest until their Thanks
giving day battle, but Pitt plays Car
negie Tech, and Temple, another un-
beaten outfit, faces ViIlanova. Yale and
Harvard clash in the outstanding
game from a traditional angle, while
Columbia plays Syracuse and Lafayette
meets Lehigh. Army, tuning up for the
Notre Dame and Navy games, encoun-
tiers a well-coached West Virginia Wes-
leyan eleven. Fordham clashes with
Oregon State In the only big intersec-
tional game.
COUTH-Auburn, which, with Louis
- lana State, is the only unbeaten
and only united team in the South
ern Conference, plays Georgia In the
only game involving the leaders. If
the Plainsmen get by Georgia and
South Carolina on December 3, they
probably will win general recognition as
champions, whatever the outcome Of
Louisiana States game with Tulane
December 26. Meanwhile, some OBJ
servers are pointing with pride to Cen
tenary's gentlemen who. have won eight
successive games, three from Southwest
Conference and two from Southern
Conference rivals.
Southwest-Texas Christian, favored
for the title, battles Rice, which has
been beaten both by Texas and Texas
A. M. Texas plays Arkansas and
Baylor meets Southern Methodist.
Pacific-California plays Stanford
in the big game. U. c. l.. A., seeking
a share with Southern California, IN
the the title should beat Montana.