Evening star., 1938-10-15
T|[TS TODAY BEAR
HEAVILY ON TITLE
Major Riva|ries Renewed
to Thin Ranks of Main
Crown Contenders.
BY HUGH S. FULLERTON, Jr,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

Associated Press Sports Writer.
NEW YORK. Oct. 15.-About this
time every season, the football experts
run out Of superlatives and settle down
to sober consideration of champion
ship possibilities In the sectional and
national races.
The champions, of course, won't
emerge from the pack for another
month or more, but today's games,
everywhere from the ivy League" in
the East to the Pacific Coast Confer
ence, can do lot toward eliminating
teams that don't measure up to titular
standards. The competition most Of
them have to meet ranges from tough
to tougher.
In the major leagues" formally Or
ganized or otherwise, the schedule
shows such battles as unbeaten Dart
mouth and Brown, Columbia and Col
gate, Harvard and Army, Syracuse and
Cornell, another undefeated pair:
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. and Yale
Navy in the East.
4hS lOf AltIlc nTOWn jug.
Minnesota and Michigan, battling
for the Big Ten pinnacle as we'll as the
Little Brown Jug" and Northwestern
Ohio State top the Western Conference
championship struggles Chicago and
Iowa also meet. Kansas and Okla
homa and Missouri and Iowa State 20
to it in the Big Six.
Down South, Alabama and Tennes-
see meet hand to hand to settle cur
rent supremacy in the Southeastern
Conference and Vanderbilt plays Mis-
sissippl. Southern Conference games
are secondary with North Carolina
State playing Wake Forest. Richmond
meeting v. M. I. and The Citadel play
ing Furman.
Texas A, and M. and Texas Christian,
ranking Southwest Conference powers,
Rocky Mountain big seven" contest,
Texas hook up. Oregon, current leader
OF the Pacific Coast loop, plays Stan
ford, which took a shellacking outside
the circuit from Santa Clara.
Bears, Uclans Battle.
California and U. c. L. A., both i'm
portant title contenders, come together;
Southern California plays weak Wash
lngton State and Washington meets
Oregon State. Utah and Brigham
Young come together in the major
Rocky Mountain big seven" contest
while Utah State picks on Denver.
Doubling back to the starting points,
games that should help decide inter-
sectional supremacy and the imaginary
national title" include Fordham-
Purdue, New York University North
Carolina, Tulane-Rice. Wisconsin,
Pittsburgh, Baylor Centenary, Colo
rado-George Washington. Montana
Texas Tech and Arizona Santa Clara.
It's not a long list, but its sure to be
strenuous for every one concerned.
On top of this can be piled a flock
OF important contests that don't fit
in either classification, such as Car
negie Tech-Holy Cross in the East,
Notre Dame Illinois and Nebraska :
Indiana in the Midwest and the lead
ing interconference struggles in the
South, Georgia Tech-Duke and Ken
tucky- Washington and Lee.
Temple Stages Comeback.
Pop Warmers Temple Owls staged
a comeback to grab yesterdays head
lines by routing previously unbeaten
Bucknell, 26 to O. Duquesne breezed
past West Virginia Wesleyan, 1870, in
the only other important Eastern
game.
Auburn scored its first victory in the
Southeastern Conference by downing
Mississippi State, 20-6. while South
Carolina improved its Southern Con-
ference standing by running over Da-
wilson, $50. SeWanee routed Hiwas-
see, 44-0. and William and Mary
whipped Guilford, $50, in non-con-
ference games.
In the Midwest, great one man
show by Elmer Hackney gave Kansas
State a 60 decision over Marquette,
while Tulsa passed its way to a $50
victory over st. Louis in a Missouri
Valley Conference clash.