Evening star., 1938-10-24
WHOLESALE FLOP
IS DUE THIS WEEK
Pitt and Rams Headline In
East-Duke and N. c. u,
Battle for Title.
By HERBERT w. BARKER,
. Associated Press Sports Writer.

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By HERBERT w. BARKER,
= Associated Press Sports Writer.
NEW YORK, Oct. 24.-The looping
of last week of nine more teams from
the undefeated football list seemed
today to be only prelude to wholesale
execution among the leaders before
another Monday rolls around.
With Carnegie Tech, Syracuse,
Georgia. Vanderbilt, Creighton, Colo
RADIO State. Brigham Young, Idaho
and San Francisco all biting the dust,
the undefeated list had shrunk to Il
major teams, five Of which have been
tied.
Survivors included:
East-Pittsburgh, Dartmouth, vi.
lanova, Georgetown, George Washing.
ton, Boston College (tied) and Ford
ham (tied).
Oklahoma, Iowa State, Western Re.
serve and Northwestern (tied).
South-Tennessee and Duke.
Southwest-Texas Christian, Texas
Tech and Baylor (tied).
Far West-California and Santa
Clara.
Rocky Mountain-Utah (tied0.
Virtually all these must run con-
siderable risk this week as the fol.
lowing high-spot program reveals:
Pitt and Fordham Feature.
East Seven intersectional battles,
including Army and Notre Dame, are
on the card, but the feature battlo
sends Pitt against Fordham at Pitts
burgh in an effort to break a series of
three successive scorele&s ties. This
appears almost certainty, for Pitt has
scored three touchdowns or moro
against every rival in winning five sue
cessive games, the latest 34-7 rout
Of Southern Methodist. Fordham.
with a sharp ground attack, ran UP
26 points while blanking Oregon.
Notre Dame, stopped cold most Of
the afternoon, finally pushed across
touchdown to beat Carnegie Tech,
TO. while Army was tuning up in
400 conquest of Boston University.
Ohio State, still contender in the
Big Ten race after a 42-7 runaway
with Chicago, probably will NOV down
New York University. nosed out, rs, By
Lafayette. Boston College, tied. 1926,
by Temple, plays Florida, which has
yet to win from . major rival. Du-
quesne, stopped by Mississippi stats.
1877, meets Detroit. beaten, 1876, by
Villanova. George Washington's per-
feet record will be at stake in q Friday
night game with Mississippi, which
ran up q 47-l4 count on Centenary,
Dartmouth Meets Tough Yale.
Dartmouth. which found Harvard q
tough customer before winning, 1877,
meets a Yale outfit which put up an
astonishing fight before bowling to
Michigan. 1913. The first Big Three"
game pits Harvard against Princeton,
which came from behind twice to tie
Navy, 1913. Nays next rival Is
Penn, 1913, conqueror Of Columbia's
Lions, who tackle Cornell, 2l-6 victor
over Penn State.
Syracuse. whose unbeaten record
went by the boards last week when
speedy Michigan State scored q 1912
victory, plays Penn State, while COLI
gate, after scoring a 14-0 triumph
over Iowa. must play Holy Cross
powerful Crusaders, who buried Geor-
gia under a 1875 score. Georgetown's
Hoyas, whose 14-13 verdict over Man.
haitian kept them in the unbeaten
class, meet Temple next.
Middle West-Minnesota's unbeaten
Big Ten pacesetters return to tho
wars against Northwestern's Wildcats,
who tripped Illinois, 1870. Minnesota,
Northwestern and Ohio State, alone
Of the Big Ten group, 70 far have
escaped conference defeat. Michigan
meets Illinois; Wisconsin, halted by
Purdue. 1877, plays Indiana, beaten
1876 by Kansas State, and Iowa
clashes with Purdue in other confer
ence contests. Michigan State plays
host to Santa Claras Broncos, who
stopped Arkansas. AIS. Marquette,
beaten, 2l-0, by Texas Christian,
tackles Iowa State, another unbeaten,
united array.
Iowa State, Oklahoma and Kansas
State all are unbeaten within tho
Big Six Conference. Kansas State
should halt Kansas, heated. 2l-7, by
Iowa State. Nebraska, halted by Ok
lahoma, l4-0, meets Missouri, 1870
conqueror Of Washington University
(St. Louis). Oklahoma, meanwhile,
will play the tough Missouri Valley
Conference outfit. Tulsa.
Tennessee and L. S. U. Collide.
South-In the Southeastern Confer
ence. Tennessee's Vols, leading the
parade with three successive victories,
tuned up at CitadAs expense, 40,
for this weeks meeting with Louisiana
States Tigers, who removed Wander.
bilt from the unbeaten list, TO, on
q fourth-period drive. Georgia Tech,
7-6 victor over Auburn in its f1rst
conference test, plays Vanderbilt, while
Tulane and Mississippi and Kentucky
(see BARKER, Page A-l6)