Evening star., 1933-10-18
EAST AND MIDWEST
STAGE 130F THEM
Pitts Jaunt to Minnesota,
Army's to illinois Head In
terSectionaI Tits.
BY HERBERT w. BARKER,
Associated Press Sports Writer.


nj Undefeated teams collide
l Y in IS major foot ball en-
gagements this week and
the crash of falling favorites will
be heard from one coast to the
other.
Out of the weeks warfare will
come the first general reduction
in the number of contenders for
sectional championships as well
as a new and more accurate basis
for calculating the comparative
strength of most of the leaders.
The East offers seven of these duels
of unbeaten teams and the Midwest
six, the other two being shared by the
Southwest and Far West.
In the East the Princeton Columbia,
Penn-Dartmouth, Harvard-Holy Cross,
Fordham- Boston College and Yale
Brown games all may have an i'm
portant bearing on the race Tor sec
tional honors, while Carnegie Teen ana
Duquesne. in their tussles with Notre
Dame and Detroit, respectively, will be
SldkiIlK uIlucdlCCo iCSOAAo e~9e~@A~Ss
powerful intersectional foes.
The Middle Western slate yields to
the East only in point of numbers. the
clash of mighty Michigan and mighty
Ohio State seems most important pc
cause of the strong possibility that the
winner ultimately will be crowned
champion of the Western Conference.
"HE Big Ten hopes of Purdue and
Chicago likewise hang on their
meeting at Chicago. but tnis
game will have to yield IN polnt OF gen
eral interest to the two big intersec-
tional battles, involving Pitt and the
Army. whose comprehensive schedules
annually entitle them to national recog-
milton so long as they win. Pitt In
vades Minneapolis for crack at Mimi
esota's Gophers, powerful but un,
lucky outfit which so far has been tied
twice. by Indiana and Purdue. Army,
with its lightest and fastest team IN
wears. tackles Bob Zuppkes llllnl at
Cleveland with the outcome In DOUBT.
Completing the Midwest list OF con-
tests involving unde1eateo Teams,
Nebraska and Kansas state wage an
important Big Six battle at Manhattan,
Kans.. while Kansas meets Tulsa.
mower In the Oklahoma big four,
whose ranks have dwindled to three
now that Phillips has abandoned
Oregon States winning streak seems
due for rude interruption in the FORTH
coming stand against Southern Cali1of-
MAS Trojans. while in the Southwest
Arkansas and Louisiana State will seek
to ruin each others record at Shreve-
port.
ARRINr, numerous tics these
games will take heavy toll among
~ the undefeated teams and hal1
dozen other elevens. who SO lar nave
escaped a reverse. may find the gong
tough even though their rivals have
been beaten.
In this class are Texas A. and M.
which encounters Texas Christian: Cen
tenary, which meets Texas; Alabama,
with Tennessee coming up Iowa, con.
fronted by Wisconsin: Florida. matched
with North Carolina, and George WASH
ineton, stacking up against Auburn.
A THOUGH there has been an un-
n precedented number of early-sea-
son upsets. most of last years sec
tional champions are conceded a good
chance to repeat Southern California
in the Pacific Coast Conference, Michi-
gan in the Big Ten, Nebraska IN the
Big Six, Utah in the Rocky Mountain
and Pittsburgh and Colgate IN the East
all look just as formidable as ever.
The exceptions come in the South
west. where Texas Christian Already
has been beaten by Arkansas and in
the South where the split-up of the old
Southern Conference into two separate
organizations has interrupted the reg
ular order of succession.
However Tennessee and Auburn, Who
shared the Southern crown with LOuisi-
ana State a year ago. have been beaten,
Auburn by Georgia Tech in a South
eastern Conference game and Tennessee
bv the Southern Conference outfit. Duke.
Louisiana State likewise looked none too
powerful in playing scoreless tie with
Centenary last week.