The Washington times., 1937-10-23
Pitt Figured
To Defeat
Wisconsin
YALE BEST
Nv DAVIS ]. WALSH


but the law of averages was with
him. and that's how it ought to be
with a very tough day in the most
uncertain theater of intercollegiate
football.
There's Fordham, Texas Christ
ian and Pittsburgh, for instance.
They're not the kind Of teams that
figure to finish in ties every week,
especially with the type OF scoring
machines they feature. They
have, in other words, the law OF
averages running with them, and
that's why Fordham and T. C. u,
meeting each other in New York,
are due to go on something OF
scoring spree.
Last week, T. C. U. couldn't
fight its way out Of a tie with
Texas Aggies, and Ford h a m
couldn't, and didn't, score at all
against Pitt. The delayed touch.
downs, therefore, seem almost Ger.
tain to pile themselves up, and
personally think Texas Christian
will do most of the piling, although
the betting odds are running the
other way.
PITT MEETS BADGERS
Pitt, meantime, is turning
loose it's power attack of Goldberg,
Stapulis, Patrick and Stebbins on
unbeaten and united Wisconsin,
and it seems to me that the fury
of frustrated hopes are bound
to be visited on the Badgers. For
the third straight year, Pitt was
unable to score against Fordham
last Saturday. It seems almost
ordained it will come back this
time.
Anyhow, there never was a limb
on which there wasn't room Tor
another prophet, and that's where
I hope to have a reserved seat
on Pitt, Fordham and L. c. U.
Pitt simply happens to figure as
the winner against Wisconsin. A
lot of people have figured as a
winner against strychnine, too,
only they didn't. Pitt, however,
Just can't go wrcng two Satur'
days in row.
On another front, there's the
annual Dartmouth custom which
involves betting the viscera out
of all the small colleges available
in the first four weeks Of the
season, and strictly in keeping
with that, Bates, Amherst, Spring
field and a Sub.no1mal Brown
have been annihilated. But when
Earl Blaik's inexperienced team
meets Dick Harlow'S weli-SeaSoned
Harvard Juniors and seniors,
they'll be against something be-
sides an accent and a background.
In short, Harvard is due, and
Dartmouth is due to take it.
YALE BEST TEAM
AS for Cornell, during the first
three weeks of the season, its
hackers were throwing their hats
so high in the air they came down
filled with eagle eggs. Then the
Big Red team met Syracuse last
week and folded up, with Yale
next in line. The fact that Yale
quite possibly is the best team IN
the East ought to be the tip-off.
On still another and more dis
tant front, the Big Ten figures
virtually to produce Big Ten
champion, or co-champion, before
the day is over. Ohio State,
beaten point by U. S. c., tackles
Northwestern and the squad that
comes out of this one with the
most feathers ought to get no
worse than an even split with
Minnesota for Western honors.
Still clinging to my perch on the
limb, III take Ohio State and
Minnesota. BY way of providing
further information, might add
that Minnesota has an open date
in its schedule.
On the coast, California is ia.
vored to beat Howard Jones
Trojans, but they probably won't.
Jones team came a long way to
beat Ohio State, has two great
backs and the Jones system, which
when it's working, wins. And it
is working now after a five-year
hiatus.
L. S. U. TO WIN
In the South, Louisiana State
figures to take an improved Van.
derbilt team on sheer power, Duke
is too much for Colgate, Tulane
rates over North Carolina, and, in
the Southwest, Baylor ought to
top Texas A. and M. in spite of the
AggieS' showing in the East
against Manhattan.
You can lump the rest about
like this-WaShington to beat
Stanford, Kentucky to beat Man.
haitian, Syracuse to beat Mary
land and Pennsylvania to muddle
through against Georgetown.
It's a commentary on the foot
ball situation in South Bend that
I've gone all the way to the final
paragraph before getting to Notre
Dame. The Irish, tied by weak
Illinois and beaten by Carnegie
Tech on successive Saturdays
could go wrong against a very
good Navy team. But I don't think
they will.
Anyway. I'm on a comfortable
Limb. I could do worse.