The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-11-07
T.C.U. AND NOIRE DAME NOW RATE
 GRID ST ANDOUTS |
Only Eight Teams Left With Perfect Records,
 Bad News Ahead
BY HARRY FERGUSON Limited Press Sports Edit0rl

New York. Nov. ' - (UPJ Eight major football teams were llu- defeated and united today, and all of them are hereby advised to en- joy 1t while they can because the weekend schedule indicates some body is going to get ambushed.
 There isn't soft spot in sight for the eight who have had luck and talent on their side this season Notre Dame, Texas Christian. Santa Clara, Duke, Iowa State, Dartmouth Oklahoma and Tennessee. All meet tough opponents this week.
 Allowing for the fact that nobody is able tc see all the leading teams in one season, 1t would appear from the records and from reports of ob- servers through the country that the rmdefeated eight should rank about this way: 1. Texas Christian: ?. Notre Dame; B.. Tennessee; 4. Duke; 5. Dartmouth: 6. Santa Clara; 2. Oklahoma: 8. Iowa State.
 Don't be surprised if by next Sum- day evening that list is scrambled out of all recognition because the schedule sends
 Texas Christian against Texas, a team strong enough to have at least one good game in 1t; Notre Dame against Minnesota, still a power. house despite that three-point de- feat by Northwestern; Tennessee against Vanderbilt, which will be primed to deflate Rose Bowl hopes; Dartmouth against Cornell, a big, fast outfit that hasn't yet risen to the heights of which it is capable; Santa Clara against St. Mary's, a tricky sophomore team that may turn out to be the best in the country next year; Duke against Syracuse, an unpredictable squad that looks like . whirlwind one Sat- urday and a bush league outfit the next; Oklahoma against Missouri, which was good enough to beat Michigan State; Iowa State against Kansas State, which has shown power throughout hard schedule.
 Hit The Skids
 The top news of last weekend was the fall of Pittsburgh and Cali fornia from the dizzy heights. Oddly enough, there seems to have been a general feeling around the country that Pitt and California, two great, undefeated teams, were in for a licking last Saturday. M
 Carnegie Tech, conqueror of Pitt, displayed power in its game with Notre Dame and had been pointing for the Partners all season. Even persons who swore they would never bet against Pittsburgh seemed to be carrying a hunch around on their shoulders that Saturday was the time pr. Jock Sutherland was go- ing to lead the Panther to the well once too often.
 Fans Had ''Hunch"
 The belief that Southern Califor- mia, a young team that has been developing fast in the last three weeks, was going to spoil Califor- nia's record was even stronger. Ale most all reports from the west last week hinted at a Southern Cali. fornia victory. The defeat of Cah- fornia left the choice of the West- ern representative in the Rose Bowl game way up in the air. Southern California has no time to start wor. rying about the Rose Bowl. for it still has Washington, Ucla and Sotre Dame to take care of on its regular season schedule.
 But 1t remained for the east to supply the prize upset of the week little Rutgers victory over Prince ton. On past performance Princeton looked three or four toucldowns better than Rutgers.
 The middle west made two contri- buttons to the days upheaval. Mis- sollri's 60 victory over Michigan State and Wisconsin's 20 to l3 de- feat of strong Northwestern squad.
 In the southwest, Southern Meth odist finally got going and Texas A. & M, a far better team on this sea- sons record, came to the end of the game to lind itself on the short end of a 10 to 2 score. 7