Evening star., 1938-10-17
MANY BIC TEAMS
GET TOUGH TESTS.
Only Idle Minnesota Can Be
Guaranteed Against Loss
of Grid Prestige.
BY HERBERT w. BARKER,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

Associated Press Sports Writer.
NEW YORK, Oct. l7.-After close
survey Of the weekend wreckage, 1t
can be stated definitely today that of
the 80 major football teams still un-
defeated, Minnesota's Gophers will not
be beaten this week They don't play.
Nothing else can be guaranteed
not after a week which saw 20 big
time outfits bite the dust for the first
time, including such prime favorites
as Cornell, Navy Columbia. Pennsyl-
vania, Holy Cross, Alabama and
Oregon.
Subject to change without notice. the
chief powerhouses right now appear to
be Pitt and Dartmouth in the East;
Minnesota and Notre Dame in the
Midwest; Texas Christian, Baylor,
Oklahoma and Texas Tech in the
Southwest: California and Santa Clara
on the Pacific slope, and Tennessee,
Vanderbilt and Duke in the South.
Standings Again Threatened.
This weeks program, outlined below,
may change the situation completely
by this time next week
In the East. the intersectional angle
is strongly stressed In the middle
sector. Pitt, which overpowered
hitherto unbeaten Wisconsin, 1855
meets Southern Methodist, already
beaten by Marquette. Yale, led to a
sensational 81 upset victory over Navy
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against powerful Michigan. which
bowed to Minnesota, 7-6, after out
playing the Gophers most Of the way.
Fordham, tied by Purdue's closing
rush, 6-6. meets Oregon's Webfoots,
who suffered their first defeat In a
27-l6 rout by Stanford.
Holy Cross, whose first defeat since
1886 was rs loss to Carnegie Tech,
tackles unbeaten Georgia; Villanova S
perfect record will be at stake against
Detroit; Duquesne plays Mississippi
State, which suffered its initial loss
to Auburn, 20-6.
Hoyas, G. w. Risk Records.
On the purely sectional side, Boston
College, Dartmouth, Georgetown and
George Washington all risk unmarried
records. Boston College, which beat
Detroit e-e last week, plays Temple,
which routed previously upbeaten
Bucknel, $50. Dartmouth. whose
second-half rush buried Brown. 24-l3.
for the Bruins first defeat. meets a
courageous Harvard outfit Which
finally surrendered to Army, 20-l7
Georgetown, untested in major COM
petition, plays Manhattan. George
Washington, after beating Colorado,
1870, returns home to face Davis g.
Elkins.
Penn. tripped by Princeton. 1870,
and Columbia, stopped by Colgate,
1910, clash at Philadelphia. Cornell,
beaten by undefeated Syracuse, 1917,
as the winners scored all their points
in the final quarter, will try to start
again against Penn State. Navy and
Princeton get together at Baltimore
as New York University, nosed out
by North Carolina, plays Lafayette.
Army eases OF against Boston Uni
versity.
Middle West Situation.
The only major game Of the entire
national slate which involves two un-
defeated and united teams is sched-
uled for the Middle West and sends
Carnegie Tech against Notre Dame,
l4-6 conqueror of Illinois. Syracuse
may find Tartar in Michigan State,
which routed West Virginia, 800 Co..
gate plays Iowa, which gained a 81
IA decision over Chicago. Texas
Christians Horned Frogs, who rolled
over Texas A. and NJ, 34-6, meet
Marquette as Creighton and West Vir-
ginia get together at Omaha and Ken
lucky, upset 80 by Washington and
Lee, plays Xavier at Cincinnati.
Western Reserve, strong Ohio inde-
pendent, which is undefeated and un-
tied, plays the University of Cincin-
natl.
Hot Scraps Loom in South.
Southeastern Conference warfare
finds Alabama, 1870 victim of Ten
nessee's Vols, paced by George Cafego,
playing hapless Sewanee. Georgia
Tech, nipped, 60, by Duke, meets
Auburn, and Vanderbilt. whose fourth
quarter rally stopped Mississippi, 1877.
tangles with Louisiana State. Un-
beaten Tennessee has a "breather"
with The Citadel Tennessee, with
three STRAIGHT victories and Wander.
bilt, with two, are the current con-
ference leaders.