Evening star., 1933-10-02
N0TRE DAME FACES
KANSAS IN STARTER
Conference, Intersectional
Games Feature Gridiron
Card This Week. u.
By the Associated Press.

n YEW YORK, October Coach
M Hunk Anderson will unveil his
1888 Notre Dame team at South
Bend this week to add an extra
fair to national foot ball program
marked by long series OF conference
and intersectional games.
It will take the fire of competition
to prove it, but the experts forecast
another fine squad at South Bend, per-
haps a good bit better than the one
which last year lost only to Pittsburgh
and Southern California. If SO, partial
proof should be forthcoming on Satur-
day when Anderson's charges make
their debut against the Kansas jay
hawkers of the Big Six Conference.
Although foot ball fans will keep
one eye on the excitement at South
a wide array of prime contests, includ-
ing the Southern California Washington
State and California-St. Mary's contests
on the West Coast, the Nebraska Texas,
Minnesota Indiana and Michigan Michi-
gan State games in the Midwest, the
Navy Mercer and Pitt-West Virginia
battles in the East and the Georgia
Tulane, Georgia Tech-Kentucky, South
Carolina -Villanova and North Carolina
Vanderbilt dlelS in the South.
Mercer Tough for Navy.
"HEIR meeting with Washington
State will give the Trojans of
South California their first real
test of the season. st. Mary's, which
opened yesterday with TO victory
over the University of San Francisco.
will give California, already beaten by
Santa Clara, another tough hurdle to
overcome. On Friday night, U. c. L. A.,
beaten by Stanford in conference
game last week, 80, meets the Utah
Indians, perennial champions OF the
Rocky Mountain Conference.
NAVY probably will have to ex-
tend itself to win over Mercer,
which gave Army q terrific battle
last Saturday before bowling. 1876.
Army will face a weak Virginia
Military Institute eleven, at West
Point.
Pitt. barely able TO squeeze past
Washington & jefferson last week,
should find the going easier against
West Virginia. Carnegie Tech Will open
against Pop Warmers Temple Owls.
Otherwise the Eastern program will be
marked by the opening games for such
major schools as Yale. Harvard and
Princeton, New York University, Co.
these will be tackling minor opponents
and figure to win about as they please.
Maryland in Conference Game.
VYyHnE Notre Dame, Nebraska,
w Minnesota, Indiana, Michigan
and Ohio State are the principal
headliners in the Middle West, Wiscon-
sin will play a sturdy rival in Mar
uuette. Purdue will meet Ohio Univer-
sity of the Buckeye Conference, and
Iowa. conquerer Of Northwestern in an
astonishing upset last week. takes on
Bradley in a "breather." Chicago will
open against Cornell College Of Iowa.
on Friday night Kansas State
and Oklahoma of the big Sir Uiu
s,ping into action, the former
against St. Louis and the latter
against Tulsa Oklahoma A. and
M of the Missouri Valley Con-
ference faces Colorado University
the same night.
All-Southeastern Conference games
will be furnished not only by Georgia
and Tulane, and Georgia Tech and
Kentucky. but also by Alabama and
Mississippi, Florida and Sewanee and
Tennessee and Mississippi State. Glenn
son and North Carolina State. and
Maryland and Virginia Poly collide in
Southern Conference duels. and North
Carolina and Vanderbilt clash in test
of the two big Southern Conference
groupings. South Carolina. badly beaten
by Temple last week. will attempt to
retrieve prestige against Villanova an
other school in the Philadelphia district
Texas Christian and Arkansas open
Southwes Conference competition,
while Baylor and Rice confront strong
non- Conference rivals, Centenary and
Loyola of New Orleans, respectively.