Evening star., 1933-10-26
HALF Of BIG TEN"
SPICE WEEKS LIST
Army-YaIe Encounter Heads
Card-AIabama'S Visit to
Fordham Attracts.
BY HUGH S. FULLERTON, JR.,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

n IEW YORK, october 26.-The
| M idea of an Eastern foot
1 Y ball conference, which has
been discussed in fan
ming" sessions for a good many
years, lends a little enchantment
to a survey of this weeks Eastern
grid program which already is
good enough to satisfy most fans.
Within the confines of an imaginary
Eastern big Ten" composed of Army,
Navy, Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Dart
mouth, Columbia, Cornell, Pennsylvania
and Brown, come nearly half of the
outstanding games Of the section Satur-
day.
! These 10 colleges, natural rivals and
each playing at least three games
| against others of the group, offer such
major struggles as Yale-Army, Harvard
Dartmouth and Penn-Navy. All three
might have an important bearing ON
! the championship if there was a title
10 decide. In addition the schedule in
cludes Brown VS.. Holy Cross, Columbia
VS.. rem State and Princetons inter-
sectional meeting with Washington and
Lee. Cornell has an open date.
| The Yale-Army clash already is one
OF the weeks biggest games, as both
teams are undefeated; the Cadets are
rated as possible contenders for national
honorS after last weeks triumph over
Illinois, and Yale, which frequently
starts slowly, has a habit of showing
improvement about this time.
outside OF these 10 colleges, the lead
ing games are Fordham VS. Alabama.
perhaps the most important of the
week lntersectional clashes; Colgate
Lafayette. Carnegie Tech Washington
and Jefferson and BucbnelI- Temple,
THE Midwest, which has demon
| strated the possibilities of con-
ference competition for a good
many years, has another big battle
within its Big Ten to follow last weeks
Michigan-Ohio State clash. Iowa s
HaWkeyes, which look like an outstand-
ing threat to Michigan's title hopes.
lace the tough young Minnesota team
minnesota appears to be a tough op-
| ponent for any team, especially after
last weeks triumph over Pittsburgh,
WhiIe Iowa has beaten Northwestern
and Wisconsin.
dangered by Saturdays clash with Chi
cago. Ohio State and Northwestern.
Doth out of the race for the present.
may put on a great struggle, as both
are out to regain some lost prestige
The remaining conference clash is Wis
consln vs.. Purdue, the latter tied but
| unbeatef
The Midwest program also includes
sumo highiy interesting intersectional
games as Pitt makes an effort TO come
back from last weeks defeat at Notre
Dames expense and Michigan State
encounters Syracuse
| THE Nebraska Cornhuskers, already
! i victorious over Kansas State, have
! a chance to clean up the Big Six
struggle They face a strong Oklahoma
team while Kansas, powerful defen-
slve outfit, meets the already beaten
kansas State team. Iowa State and
Missouri also clash but they already
nave been counted out of the running.
II the South. competition between
! Southern and Southeastern Conference
teams leaves little room for title games
and several of the leaders are occupied
with opponents from other parts of the
| country. In addition to Alabama's s trip
TO New York, Georgia, Southeastern
leader. faces New York University,
Duke, looking like the best of the
Southern Conference teams faces Ken
| lucky of the other loop. Virginia Poly
| and South Carolina come together with
records of not having been beaten in
the Southern, and Florida, facing Ten
nessee. hasn't lost game in the South.
| eastern.
| While it may may not decide the
championship, the Cahtornia-Southern
| California fray tops the Pacific Coast
program by a wide margin Some of
the edge was taken off the 18th
meeting between these rivals when
Washington State played 6-6 tie with
California last week and Oregon State
played a scoreleSs draw with the Tro-
jams. Oregon and Stanford, both un-
beaten and united within the confer
ence, face lesser rivals. Stanford plays
Washington and Oregon plays U. c. L.
| A., which has lost one conference game.