Evening star., 1938-11-12
lvy-Twiined Ti|ts
Stud Gridiron
Gard Today
Form ReversoIs Mark
HotIy Contested
Armistice Games
BY HUGH S. FULLERTON, Jr.,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

ASSCCldleQ fTeSS SpOTlS writer.
NEW YORK, Nov. l2.-If the
scattered Armistice Day games in
dicate the trend for this weekend,
another splurge of upsets and mar
row escapes is in store for the Ma
tion's leading football teams today
With the season drawing toward
its close, most of the leading elevens
are scheduled for games of major
Importance. either against rivals
of long standing, conference enemies
who may make or break a champion
ship season, or maj jor intersectional
foes.
Setting the stage for another day
of upsets. Boston College and Holy
Cross. two Eastern leaders, barely
pulled out decisions over opponents
they figured to beat easily yester-
day and in-and-out Colgate lost
1871 to New York University. Bos-
ton College STAYED off a last-period
air attack to down its smaller neigh
Dor. Boston University. 2l-l4. while
Holy Cross rallied in the final quar-
ter to beat Brown, 14-l2.
That's just a hint of what may
happen on todays big program.
Many Chances for Upsets.
The East has dozen chances for
upSets with list of traditional
scraps topped by Princeton Yale.
the longest continuous football
series. Other Ivy-tWined games in
clude Cornell-Dartmouth, the title
scrap in the mythical Ivy League.
and Carnegie-Duquesne. Columbia
Navy. Pennsylvania Penn State,
Rutgers Lafayette. Temple Villa
nova and West Virginia Georgetown.
On the intersectional side are
Fordham- North Carolina, Syracuse
Duke (the latter the Nations only
major undefeated, united, unscored-
on team, George Washington Kan
Sas, Harvard-Vlrglnia. Army Chat
tanooga and Western Maryland
Wake Forest
There's a breathing spell in the
Western Conference race. but not for
the teams concerned as Minnesota
takes an unbeaten Notre Dame and
Wisconsin goes West to play U. c..
l.. A. Michigan and Northwestern,
meantime, fight it out for runner-up
honors, while Ohio State plays Ilh-
nols, Indiana meets Iowa and Chi
cago plays the College of the Pa
cific.
Task for Oklahoma.
oklahoma, in tough race for the
Big Six title, meets Missouri. hardly
contender. but a very difficult GUS
toner. while Iowa State, co-leader,
plays Kansas State Nebraska takes
on its favo:ite intersectional enemy.
Pittsburgh.
Texas Christian, Southwest Con-
terence leader, plays last-place
Iexas, while Rice and Southern
Methodist, tied for second. meet
texas A. and M. and Arkansas. re-
spectively. Baylor went to the Paci-
nc Coast and walloped Loyola of
Los Angeles. 25-2. yesterday.
The Southeastern Conference tus-
sles. sending pace setting Tennessee
against Vanderbilt, Georgia against
Tulane and Alabama against Georgia
Iech, head the Southern slate. Other
interesting games are Auburn-Louis-
lana State, kentucky-C Clemson, Mis-
Slsslppl-Sewanee, Florida Maryland,
North Carolina State-Detroit, Mis-
slsslppi State-Centenary, V. M. l.
Davidson, Furman-South Carolina
and Washington and Lee William
and Mary. Virginia Tech and Rich
mond played a scoreless Southern
conference game yesterday.
Big Battles in West.
On the West Coast. Southern Cali
lorna. the conference leader, plays
washington. California meets Ore
gon and Oregon State plays STAN
ford.
Utah, heading the Rocky Noun
tain Big Seven. meets Colorado
State. Other pairings are Colorado
Brigham Young, Utah state-Wyo-
ming and Denver-H Hawaii.
Some OF the other leading tussles
Friday saw Catholic whip Miami
'Flao, TO; st. Anselm preserve an
unbeaten record by stopping Scran-
ton, 1914; Texas Tech also stav on
the undefeated, united list with a
to win over Gonzaga; Texas Mines
stop Arizona. 26-14. and San Fran
cisco defeat Fresno State, 14-6.