Evening star., 1933-10-25
TELLING CONTESTS
IN MOST SECTIONS
East Alone, Though Offering
Big Games, Has Few That
Bear on Title.
BY HERBERT W. BARKER.

M studious foot ball follower,
/ Y curious to ascertain just
what the sectional cham
pionship prospects are, will have
plenty to gnaw on after this
weeks games have been won, lost
and tied.
An early season campaign against
Set-upS or interSectional foes, profit
able interesting it may have been.
leaves most conference races still In
the formative stage with no possibility
Of accurate ratings. This week should
correct that for most of the big fell
lows will take their fun in conference
games.
In the Big Ten, for instance, four
conference games should clarity the
situation considerably although there's
small chance Of anything occurring to
make Michigan's Wolverines any less
the outstanding favor1tes they already
are. The result of their meeting with
Chicago is regarded as foregone con-
cluSion. At Minneapolis, however, the
clash of IoWa's HaWkeyes and Mime
sofas Gophers should eliminate one or
the other from further contention
Iowa has hung up successive triumphs
over Northwestern and Wisconsin, but
Minnesota, despite ties with Indiana
and Purdue, looks impressive. Purdue,
tied but unbeaten. should coast by Wis
consin and remain in the chase. North
western and Ohio State, rivals at &c,
lumbuS, have been beaten, and, at tbA
moment at least, are out Of the ranA.
A NEBRASKA victory over OH
~ homa and a Kansas defeat hy
Kansas State would just aboltt
decide the Big Six race in favor OF
Nebr askas Cornhuskers. That would
give Nebraska three successive victories
with hapless Missouri and q strong de-
fersive Kansas outfit still to be met
The third conference game this week
Iowa State vs.. Missouri, involves the
tau-enders.
The nve-game Pacific Coast schedule
brings together only two eleveus unde-
feated within the conference. Southern
California and California, but Oregon,
Stanford and Oregon State, the frst
two undefeated and united. and Ore
gon State, only tied. Tm into s2eupous
opposition that may mako . Wholesale
slash In the contendfng hst.
Oregon must play q. O. l. 4. whose
only conference start cm6ed 70 . 30
defeat from Stanfoyd S&au6rd mays
Washington and Oregon Sndte meets
Washington State Tie ffh eawS, be-
tween Montana and Idaho. fnvofvss the
cellar dwellers.
TN THE Southwest ths ~ leaders,
Arkansas and Southeru Me1hodist,
meet at Fayetteville, but TeaAs max
ing its conference debut, will Jump into
the race II the Longhorns top Rice.
Texas A. & M. and Baylor, each beaten
once, clash at college station. Texas
Christian. with an even break In two
games. tackles Centenary Of the s. l.
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Little progress will be made IN the
South toward clarifying the Southern
and Southeastern Conference races al
though two undefeated teams in the
former group. Virginia Poly and South
Carolina, square of against one another.
Duke. the heir-apparent to the South
ern Conference throne, plays Kentucky,
Southeastern eleven.
| Floridas undefeated Southeastern
record may go by the boards in the
meeting with Tennessee, and Louisiana
| States first contest in the same group
takes the Tigers against Vanderbilt,
| whose only conference start resulted in
tie with Mississippi State.
THE numerous and unwieldly East
| ern colleges. with no major con-
ference alignment at all, will have
to wait until just about the end OF the
season before any generally recognized
| leader will emerge. but this weeks slate
may serve to eliminate some of the un-
beaten teams such as Yale or Army, who
collide at New Haven; Fordham, Holy
Cross. Dartmouth and Carnegie. all of
whom run up against what appears to
be formidable opposition.
Although apparently not so powerful
as in the past few years. the Utah In
dians still are the boys to beat in the
Rocky Mountain sector. and they loom
much too strong for Utah State. Den
yer and Colorado College, both unbeat-
en-, but tied. will try to eliminate one
another in the only other game involv-
ing elevenS who so far have escaped
conference defeat.
Drake will go after Its fourth straight
Missouri Valley Conference triumph in
a clash with Washington University of
St. Louis.
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