The Washington times., 1933-11-03
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To TOPPLE
MICHIGAN
BY DAVIS ]. WALSH

the life OF every town Ghere
comes a time when, for day,
an afternoon, or a brief, unfor-
gettable hour, it rises right up
there in news print 10 challenge
the interest of nation with the
events that transpire within its
civic bounds. Such day is
coming tomorrow to Lafayette,
Ind, and Champaign, ILL.,, which
at last have lived to see the day
when they are to take issue with
New York, the great, big, soulless
hulk, with it's furious. spurious os-
tentation and The wash on the
fire escape.
Nationally speaking, these form
a trinity of football interest in
tomorrow's schedule, not an espe-
cially attractive one but tolerable
like the adagio and acrobats you
mildly sit through while awaiting
better things.
At that, you would sit long
time before getting anything bet
ter than the Fordham-St. Mary's
game here. Within a drive and
a pitch, there is to be another
good one between Tulane and
Colgate
At Champaign. Michigan, un-
beaten through almost three
years. will play Illinois, desperate
but apparently without any great
hope. with the Big Ten cham
pionship in escrow. At Lafayette,
the unbeaten teams of Purdue
and Carnegie Tech will settle
several things, including the ulti-
mate status OF both in the ma
tional rankings at the end of
the year.
Show Window Games
These seem to be the show
window games of the day. al
though there will be much neigh
borhood excitement from Texas
to Florida and in Baltimore,
Providence. Los Angeles. Nash
vile. Detroit. Evanston, Chicago,
Columbia, Mo-. and incidental
points. The Big Ten will be very
active, with Michigan VS.. Illinois.
Minnesota VS.. Northwestern, Ohio
State VS.. Indiana and Chicago VS..
Wisconsin. So will the Southwest
conference, with Texas VS..
Southern Methodist, Baylor VS..
Texas Christian and Centenary
VS.. A. and M. Also the south with
Florida VS.. Georgia, Duke VS..
Auburn, Alabama VS.. Kentucky,
Vanderbilt VS.. Georgia Tech,
Louisiana VS.. South Carolina,
North Carolina State VS.. North
Carolina and Mississippi VS..
Birmingham Southern.
But if the East wishes national
attention this time, it must look
to its intersectional meetings be-
TWEEN Fordham and St. Mary's.
Colgate and Tulane and George
Washington and Tennessee, the
latter at Washington. AS for the
Big Six. the Coast and the Rocky
Mountain Conference, they prom
Use all too little that is interesting
or conclusive.
In all. about 18 teams are going
into the day undefeated and how
many will come out that way is
something that Is coaches
throughout the country would be
glad to know. Admitting that
it's nobody's half-holiday to pick
four winners in a case like this,
shall propose to do it the hard
way. I'll name four losers.
mean they're to lose for the
first time, with the rest of this
particular field winging up some
what as follows:
To be beaten: Fordham (by St.
Mary's). Carnegie Tech (by Pur-
duel. George Washington (by
TENNESSEE, Holy Cross (by De-
troit).
Might be beaten, but unlikely:
Colgate, Michigan, Georgia (by
Florida), Duquesne (by w. & J6c).
Won't be beaten: Purdue, Louis
lana State, Nebraska (by Mis-
sourD; oregon (by Utah); Prince
ton (by Brown; Minnesota, Duke
the Army (by Coe); Mississippi.
Some of these latter, as mat
ter of fact, look the part of or
dained results. notably those in.
volving Nebraska, the Army and
Duke. Princeton may be picking
up a live one in Brown and Min
nesota undoubtedly is doing the
same with Northwestern. But, on
the whole, it is one of those mega.
tive days. This seems especially
true of the Big Ten, the Big Six
featuring also the Kansas-Okla'
homa meeting; the Southwest
and the South.
Speaking of the latter, I like
Georgia, Duke, Vanderbilt and
Louisiana State. A little further
west, I'll take Texas over South
ern Methodist.
Up North at Baltimore with the
Navy, Notre Dame will have tc
lose once more for me before III
believe it.