Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-10-18
UNBEATEN, UNITED
MEET TOUGH FOES.
Only II Major. Teams Have
Clean States After Big,
UpheavaI Last Week.
BY HERBERT w. BARKER,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

GW 1oNh, OCtOper 16.-InCeT-
collegiate foot ball approached
" the seasonal halfway mark
\ today with the ranks Of I'M
defeated and united teams drastically
reduced and sectional championship
RACES turned upside down by another
series Of form reversals that struck
every part of the country.
Today only II major teams still
could boast perfect records and these
win be materially depleted after next
Saturdays program has been written
into the records. Figures tell best
the carnage wrought among favorites
last week. Twelve major teams SUI
fered their initial defeats; eight others
escaped defeat, but were tied. The
net result left II undefeated and I'M
tied arrays and 10 unbeaten, but
tied.
Here's how the undefeated list stands
now:
East-Dartmouth, Syracuse Holy
Cross. Yale, George Washington. I'M
defeated and united; Pitt. Fordham,
Navy, Harvard, Boston College, Tenn
pie and Villa Nova, undefeated, but
tied.
Midwest-Wisconsin Northwestern
and Detroit, unbeaten and united;
Nebraska, tied.
South-Vanderbilt, Louisiana State
and Alabama, undefeated and united;
Tulane, Auburn, Duke and North
Carolina, tied.
Southwest-Baylor, undefeated and
united; Texas A. & M, tied.
Far West-California and Santa
Clara, undefeated and united.
Rocky Mountain-Colorado Western
State tGunnison) and Montana, I'M
defeated and united.
Pitt to Face Tough Wisconsin.
PROSPECTS for this week seem
about as follows:
East-Pitt, which outplayed Ford
ham by wide margin. but fumbled or
otherwise kicked away its chances for
victory in the third consecutive score
less tie these teams have played,
tackles Wisconsin's revived Badgers,
whose fourth consecutive victim was
Iowa, 1876. Alabama, which struck
heavy blow toward a share in the
Southeastern Conference champion
ship by upsetting Tennessee, AT,
travels north to play George Wash
ington in clash of undefeated and
united teams.
Detroit, which removed Catholic
from the unbeaten brigade last week,
faces Boston College, held to a score
less tie by Temple. Colgate. impress
sive in holding Tulane to rs score.
tackles undefeated Duke, whose Blue
Devils pushed over touchdown in
the last few minutes to whip Georgia
Tech in thriller at Atlanta, 2O-le.
Keeping the intersectional ball roll
Ing, Fordham plays Texas Christian.
which surprised by holding powerful
Texas A. and NJ to TT draw.
Syracuse, whose great halfback,
Marty Glickman, paced the Orange to
last weeks most startling upset, a
1915 conquest of undefeated Cornell,
plays Maryland, 80 victor over Vir-
ginia. Army, soundly whipped by the
crack Yale array led by Clint Frank.
eases OF against Washington Uni
versity Of st. Louis.
Yale, Cornell in Big Battle.
HE domestic slate is headed by a
clash at New Haven between Yale
and Cornell, who sadly needed the
services of injured George Peck against
Syracuse. Carnegie Tech, held to
net gain Of Z yards by rushing, but
e-7 victor over Notre Dame just the
same, on Coleman Kopcsak's field goal,
plays Temple in Friday night game.
Columbia, after crushing Penn, 1855,
with Sid Luckman doing yeoman serv-
ice finds Brown, crushed 41-0, by
Dartmouth, next on the slate Dart
mouth plays Harvard, which held
Navy to scoreleSs tie.
Holy Cross, which played a strong
defensive game to top Georgia, 10,
should ease past Western Maryland.
and Villanova, whose John Wysocki
scored all three touchdowns in 300
route of Manhattan, should hurdle
Bucknell.
Princeton, which had too much
Power for Chicago, 1877, plays Rutgers,
indicated and united in four minor
engagements; Penn plays Georgetown,
Unexpectedly upset by Lafayette, SO
Lafayette, undefeated and united, may
come cropper against New York
University.
South-Louisiana States Tigers, who
chalked up their second straight
Southeastern Conference victory
against Mississippi, 1870, play Wander
bilt, 60 conqueror of Southern Meth
odist and victor over Kentucky in its
Only conference test. Auburn, which
ran up tremendous 1877 count on
Mississippi State, meets tricky Georgia
Tech in another standout conference
game. Mississippi State and Florida,
Tennessee and Sewanee are other con-
ference pairings.