Evening star., 1935-10-14
STIRRING BATTLES
ON TAP SATURDAY
Sensational Yale Eleven
Tackles Navy-WiIdcats
Oppose Ohio State.
BY the Associated Press.

VI ule, the breath-taking ups and
a downs that already have put
their mark on the 1885 foot ball sea-
son will continue Saturday.
To the fans who like to look back
at the era Of bewhiskered behemoths
of the gridiron and 15-man teams,
this is the week when Princeton plays
Rutgers again and the week when
"Stagg fears Purdue"
The Tigers and their New Jersey
neighbors inaugurated the Autumn
custom of playing college foot ball
games back in 1869. After drifting
apart many years ago, they renewed
their rivalry in 1888. This weeks
meeting will be their thirty third, and
the indications are that Princeton will
ring up its thirty-second victory.
With the grand old man, Amos
Alonzo Stagg, gone from Chicago, and
the tale about his fearing Purdue"
worn thin by the Boilermakers' rise to
power. the clash between the Maroons
and Purdue still ranks as one Of the
best Of the week on the Big Ten pro-
gram.
The game, however, doesn't measure
up in prospect to the battle between
the mighty Ohio State team, which
walloped Drake IS to last Saturday.
And Northwestern's stubborn de-
fensive array.
Detroit In for Trouble.
OF PRIME interest among the weeks
intersectional games are Notre
Daniel Pittsburgh, Minnesota Tulane,
Boston College Michigan State. De-
troit- Catholic University and Ford
ham-Vanderbilt.
Pitt, though not so strong as last
year, should be good enough to give
the fighting Irish their stiffest test
so far.
The Michigan State Spartans. roll
ing up big scores in every game, ought
to do well against Boston College,
but Detroit, also unbeaten, may have
trouble with Catholic University.
Fordham and Vanderbilt both have
been defeated, but should be able to
put up stiff fight.
Other important intersectional
clashes include the Centenary Texas
and Louisiana State Arkansas games,
sending strong Southern teams against
Southwest Conference rivals; Syra-
cuse- Ohio Wesleyan and Fridays
Duquesne- Washington (St. Louis)
encounter.
In the East Saturday there Is the
Army Harvard game, always colorful.
! despite the Crimson's lack Of success
so far: the somewhat more promising
Yale-Navy game, sending the un-
beaten Tars against the Yale team
which outscored Penn, 31-2o, and
such old standbys as Penn-C Columbia,
Brown Dartmouth and Carnegie
Tech-Temple.
'Bama Plays Tennessee.
COUTHERN CALIFORNIA. victim Of
~ a 1910 trimming by Illinois, re-
turns to conference competition
against Oregon State Washington
and Washington State stage their an
nual scrap and California takes on
Santa Clara.
/ Mississippi, one Of the ranking
Southeastern Conference teams, meets
Florida Alabamas Tidesmen. who
were walloped, 20-7, by Mississippi
State, play Tennessee, and Auburn
encounters Kentucky in the big games
of one Southern group.
In the other, Duke, acknowledged
Southern Conference leader, faces
Georgia Tech; North Carolina, lead
ing challenger, plays an outsider, Da-
wilson; Georgia meets North Carolina
State and Maryland meets Virginia
Military.
Rice and Southern Methodist battla
to eliminate one or the other from the
Southwest Conference race, whils
Texas A. & M. and Texas Christian
meet on the same basis.
The Rocky Mountain Conference
clashes lead off with Utah State-Den-
yer, with Colorado Mines Colorado.
Colorado College Brigham Young and
Fridays Greeley State-Montana State
games rounding out the list.