Evening star., 1933-11-14
AGAIN STANDING B.
. TO REpEL INVADERS
Oregon State, Nebraska Big
Threats Saturday-Purdua
Rolls Up Record.
BY HERBERT w. BARKER,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

n TEW YORK, November IA
m The Fordham Rams and
i Y the Pitt PantherS, whose
schedules annually give
them a large share of the task
of upholding Eastern foot ball
prestige in intersectional games,
stand by again this week to repeI
invaders of no inconsiderable
power.
Fordham.. victor over Alabama. but
beaten by st. Mary's Gaels, winds up
a highly successful season against the
Beavers of Oregon State. Pitt, beaten
only by Minnesota and conqueror of
Notre Dame and Centre from other Sec
tionS, hopes to add Nebraskas unde-
feated and united Cornhuskers to the
list.
EORDHAM wants revenge on the
Far West for that st. Mary,s de-
feat and may get it at Oregon
States expense. but Jimmy Crowley
viii be ready for the closest kind OF
a battle. Lon Stiner, in his first season
as head coach, has developed the
Beavers into a formidable array of
iron men," Their only defeat SO far
came last week when they dropped a
1873 decision to Oregon's unbeaten and
united outfit, heir apparent to the Pa
ciflc Coast throne.
The Beavers feats of endurance have
aroused widespread interest not only
in the Far West, but throughout the
country. They used only IL men in
holding Southern California to q score
less draw and made only one substitute
ton in hard-fought 1877 victory over
San Francisco and only one when they
nosed out Washington State, 20.
Saturdays game will mark the third
New York appearance of an Oregon
State team. The Beavers of 1928 laced
New York University, 25-13 Last year
they were nosed out by Fordham, s-6.
A LTHoUGH Nebraska travels East
n ward with a perfect record and
its third successive Big Six cham
pionship safely slowed away, the Corn
huskers probably will be conceded no
better than an even chance against Pitt.
There viii be two reasons for that:
First, some doubt as to the quality of
the opposition through which the Corn
huskers have paraded SO far; second,
the fact that Nebraska teams have had
little luck against Pitt since the schools
put their foot ball relations on an an
nual basis In 1927.
Nebraska, in fact, hasn't won a game
from the Panthers In that time, al
though the games of 1923, 1880 and
1882 ended in scoreless ties. Pitt won,
2l-13, in 1927; 1877. in 1929. and 400, in
1881. This Is another odd year, and
precedent calls for a Panther victory.
Nebraska can take considerable cheer
out Of the fact, however, that this has
been poor year for precedents.
CPEAKING of precedents calls at
u tention to the fact that Purdue
still Is going strong. unbeaten In
20 games and unwhitewashed in As.
Nobody's whipped the Boilermakers
since Wisconsin earned q 21-l4 triumph
early in 1881, and nobody has shut
them out since Minnesota won. 1870.
in the second game of the 1928 cam
paign.
Since then Purdue elevens have scored
8s9 points against the opposition's 212
in hanging UP 80 victories and 3 ties
against only defeats. Three of those
reverses were by 1-point margins.
With Iowa and Indiana yet to face
this year, the Boilermakers seem certain
to carry their long streak into 1884.