The Washington times., 1938-10-10
By CHICK KENNY

with Pitt as headlinerS among thu
unmarried. Down South, Alabams
plays Tennessee and Vanderbilt
opposes Ole Miss.
TUMBLED HOPES
Many other of the top-rankine
undefeated elevenS meet stern
tests which may result with
tumbled hopes. Columbia meets
Colgate; Fordham battles Purdue;
New York is host to North Caro-
lima; Penn plays Princeton, and
Navy invadeS New Haven for its
annual clash with Yale.
Other top-flight battles include
Harvard-Army, while West Virginia
meets Michigan State at Morgan
town in an intersectional fray Of
importance.
In Western Conference tits, Chi
cago meets Iowa and Northwestern
plays Purdue. Undefeated Notre
Dame goes up against the strong
Illini, Kansas meets indicated
Oklahoma, Iowa State, conqueror
of Nebraska last weekend, ploughS
into Missouri, and Nebraska plays
Indiana in other interesting games.
The Southwest commands par
ticular attention this week as
Texas A. and M. battles an old
rival in Texas Christian. The tilt
has had the Lone Star State talk
ing since last winter. Baylor
clashes with Centenary and Arkan-
sas entertains a punched-about
Texas eleven in other encounters
in this section.
On the Pacific, Arizona tests the
championship aspirations Of Santa
Clara, while California meets u. c.
IL, A. in a traditional tilt. South
ern California, conQueror of Ohio
States last Saturday, moves
against Washington State, while
Stanford meets oregon, and Wash
ington plays Oregon State.
Locally, undefeated George
Washington picks a tartar in
Colorado at Boulder, while unde-
feated Georgetown plays around
with another soft touch in Ran
dolph-M Macon. its third Chesapeake
conference rival of the campaign.
American University inaugurates
its grid campaign on Eagle Field
here, entertaining Swarthmore,
while hapless Maryland plays
Western Maryland at Baltimore.
Catholic U. is idle this week.
MANY SURPRISES
Friday night, too, has several
stirring battles carded, with
Temple playing undefeated Buck
nell; Kansas State meeting Mar
quette, and Duquesne opposing
West Virginia Wesleyan. On Co
lumbus Day, october IL. Detroit
plays undefeated Boston College
before q Boston holiday crowd.
AS usual, last weeks play pEo-
vided a bumper crop Of surprises.
The two biggest upsets Of the
day was Iowa States 81 defeat OF
Nebraska and Washington and
Lees 6-6 draw with West Vir-
ginia. To many Ohio States 147
loss to Southern California and
Indiana's 1879 defeat by Illinois
were unexpected.
In last weeks headlinerS in the
East, Columbia came from behind
to nose out Army, 20-18; Dart
mouth walloped Princeton, 40;
Penn trounced Yale, 21-0, and
Cornell ran over Harvard. Navy
showed drive in downing Virginia,
$50, and Duke noSed out Colgate
in an intersectional fray at Buf-
falo, 10, while Pitt Subdued its
city rival, Duquesne. 27-0.
DIXIE RESULTS
In the South, Tulane dumped
North Carolina, 17-l4, as Notre
Dame flashed a 14-6 setback on
Georgia Tech. Clemson's TT draw
with v. M. /. was q Southern sur
prise, but other games went as
heduled-TenneSsee topping Au-
burn, TO; Alabama defeating
North Carolina State, 40;
Vanderbilt overcoming Kentucky,
14-7. and L. s. o. topping Rice
by a fourth-quarter field goal,
80.
Michigan humbled Chicago,
45-7, in a Big Ten rout, and Wis
consin showed itself to be very
much alive by walloping Iowa,
31-13. Kansas State pounded an
impressive 21-13 victory over
Missouri; Northwestern cracked
down on Drake, SO, and Okla
homa clouted Texas, 13-O in the
Midwest warfare.
In the Southwest sector, Baylor
nosed out Arkansas, 8 to 8, in the
last half-minute with a field goal
in the big game of the day.
SANTA CLARA WINS
On the far coast, Santa Clara
moved ahead by defeating Texas
A. and M, 10; Stanford whacked
Washington State, 30, and q. G
L. A. turned back Washington,
13-0.
Locally, Georgetown thumped
Roanoke, 33-6, but injury-riddled
Maryland travelled to Syracuse tc
take a $50 beating. Last Fri
day night, George Washington
won its second start, vanquishine
Butler University, 26-0. but Cath
olic U. travelled way out to Michi
gan to be shellacked by Detroit q.
27-0.
In the oldest score Of the day
} West Virginia Wesleyan noSed out
oDaviS- -ElkinS, 8 to 5.