Evening star., 1938-11-21
Bow|Ganne Bids
Depend Mainly
On Ti|ts Due
LuureIs in Several
Football Groups
Still Disputed
BY HUGH S. FULLERTON, Jr,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

NEW YORK, Nov. 2l.-Four Sec
tional football champions are sport
ing brand-new crowns that can't be
knocked off until next season; the
1888 campaign practically is over in
some regions; but the big question
of which teams are to be rated the
best in the Nation, which two will
meet New Year Day in the Rose
Bowl and in other post-season
games, still is to be decided.
Most of these problems probably
will be ironed out this week when
the Thanksgiving Day classics and
next Saturdays climax games bring
the season almost to its end.
Last Saturday saw the Bib Ten
campaign close with Minnesota on
top again; Oklahoma complete its
sweep of Blk Six honors: Duke walk
off with the Southern Conference
crown; Utah take the title in the
Rocky Mountain Blk Seven and
California clinch at least a tie for
Pacific Coast Conference honors.
Other Bids for High Ranking.
Each of these new champions has
a claim of some sort to high national
ranking. but there are other claims
which must be considered. The
major" unbeaten and united teams
are Georgetown in the East: Notre
Dame and Oklahoma in the Mid
west; Texas Christian in the South
west and Tennessee and Duke in the
South Texas Tech and Western
Reserve may be as good as some of
these, but they haven't been able to
prove it yet.
Villanova, Boston College and
Utah also are unbeaten, but have
been tied one or more times each.
From the sectional and bowl
standpoint, the major events on this
weeks program are Thursday S
Southern California;. C. L. A.
game, the probably decisive Ten
nessee-Kentucky and Texas Chris
tian-Southern Methodist contests
and the intersectional battle be-
tween Duke and Pittsburgh.
East Still In Turmoil.
Taking the weeks program by sec
tions, here Is how the remaining
races look.
Georgetown rallied to beat Mary
land, 147, last Saturday and wind
up as the only major unbeaten and
united team. Claims of Villanova
1916 winner over Boston University
and Boston College. held to a score
less tie by st. Anselm, an unbeaten
little fellow, depend upon the for
mers tilt with Manhattan Thursday
and the Eagles annual struggle with
Holy Cross Saturday.
Just as the Yale-Harvard tussle
which Harvard won, TO, on single
uninterrupted drive after having
been bafied for three periods, was
last weeks standout game, the
Army Navy classic heads this weeks
slate. Army showed itself in fine
shape for Saturdays conflict by
whipping Princeton, 1877.
Cornell Favored ivy" Team.
Pittsburgh prepared for a decisive
test gainst Duke by routing Penn
State, $50, while Manhattan warm
ed up for Villanova with a 1870
victory over West Virginia. Penn
and Cornell, both idle last week
wind up the "Ivy League" schedule
Thursday with Cornell favored to
take the title.
In other Thanksgiving games Co.
lumbia, beaten, 1912, by Syracuse,
meets Brown, and George Washing
ton, 1910 loser to Bucknell, plays
West Virginia. Fordham, which out
splashed South Carolina, winds up
against New York University Satur-
day, while South Carolina plays
Catholic.
Middle West Titles Settled.
Minnesota retained its Big Ten
title by running over Wisconsin, a
likely looking candidate for the
honor, 21-0, while Michigan knocked
Ohio State out of the picture, 1870.
Purdue downed Indiana, 1876, and
Illinois routed Chicago, $40, in
other final conference games.
Notre Dame got past Northwest
ern, 81, as young Willard Hofer
scored all its points with a 65-yard
runback of an intercepted pass and
a 20-yard field goal. The Irish" can
rest on their very green laurels until
they wind up against Southern Cali
fornia December 3.
BY conquering a stubborn Iowa
State team, 100, Oklahomas Soon
ers took the Big Six crown, and only
a pair of games, with Oklahoma S
Aggies and Washington State, stands
(See FULLERTON, Page Aid