Evening star., 1938-10-14
VOL-'BAMA SCRAP
IS DIXIE FEATURE
Program Heavy With Games
Between Intersectionai
and Sectional Foes.
BY GRANTLAND RICE,
Special Correspondent of The Star.

BY GRANTLAND RICE,
Special Correspondent of The Star.
NEW YORK, Oct. 14-Tomorrow is
another big day for sectional or inter-
sectional ranking There are no soft
Saturdays left, but this one is loaded
with nitroglycerine hooked to a fast
fuse. Plus just touch Of guncotton
and TINT.
You might take look at partial
list OF strong, unbeaten teams moving
into the jungle-Michigan and Min
nesota-Pittsburgh and Wisconsin,
Cornell and SyracuSe-Alabama and
Tennessee-Holy Cross and Carnegie
Tech-Dartmouth and Brown-Van-
derbilt and Mississippi-Columbia,
Fordham, Navy. Pennsylvania. Notre
Dame, California, Santa Clara, Duke,
Oregon, T. c. u, Northwestern, N. Y.
u. not to extend the list. At any rate,
here are Is nominations Of which at
least 10 or II must feed upon the bit
ter bread of the beaten.
The harder tests Saturday include
Michigan and Minnesota, the old bat
tie of the Wolverine and the Gopher,
with the Wolverine moving up again
Tennessee and Alabama in a game that
might decide Dixie supremacy-Pitts-
burgh and Wisconsin-Cornell and
Syracuse-Holy Cross and Carnegie
Tech.
These strong teams all have come
. safely through, but by Saturday night
there will be five missing at roll call
when the wild laurel sprigs are being
given out. You can add Dartmouth
Brown and Vanderbilt Mississippi to
this group.
A Few Others.
But don't overlook the fact that
beaten team in football does not mean
q weak team today.
Columbia has to meet a good, i'm
proving Colgate team. and out West
Elmer Layden's Notre Dame group has
to handle Bob Zuppke's Illinois squad,
strong enough to crack Indiana. Ford
ham has just as rugged an afternoon
against one Of the best Purdue teams
In many years-and Fordham still is
minus a real brawl under its belt.
T. c. U. will have just as rough an
afternoon against Texas A. and M.
Purdue and Texas A. and M. held
Minnesota and Santa Clara to a single
touchdown. .Unbeaten California won't
have any gallop against its brother-in-
law. U. c. L. A., not with Kenny WASH
tngton using rifle.
Notre Dame, Columbia and Fordham
all face the possibilities of sudden
pllncture. Zuppke, the painter and
philosopher takes deep pleasure in
socking Notre Dame, and the good
doctor has more stuff due for psy-
Geological letdown after Yale and
Army, with Pennsylvania on ahead.
Three Of the Big Ones.
Three of the most decisive tests on
Saturday will be- Michigan and Min
nesota, Pittsburgh and Wisconsin and
Alabama and Tennessee.
Minnesota. Pittsburgh, Santa Clara
and Alabama now are rated among the
top four. Minnesota and Pittsburgh
should get top rating.
However. Bernie Biermans highly
esteemed Gophers will face the best
Michigan team seen around in many
years. The Wolverine has big, fast
line and her share of good backs You
need that moving concrete forward
wall to have chance with Minnesota.
Michigan has it. And Michigan also
has new spirit.
From dreams of far-gone yesteryears
the ghost Of Heston waits,
Where Sweeney kicked and Neil Snow
fiared and Garrels stormed the
gates"
Now we come to Pittsburgh and Wis
tonsin. Harry Stuhldreher's Badgers
trimmed Marquette, 27 to 0, and Mar
quette was good enough to beat South
ern Methodist So our old friend. DR..
John Balm Sutherland, will have no
shadows to bat down. But neither
will Wisconsin have any shadows to
manhandle in Chickerneo, Goldberg,
6tebbins and Cassian ano-four war tanks
working back of fine line, including
two of the best ends in football, Daddio
and Hoffman. This will be a football
game.
Alabama Still South's Leader.
Alabama still stands out in front
as far as the South and the deep
South is concerned. This will be the
Crimson Tides second hard test-after
It's Southern California gallop. And
1t might be mentioned that Bob Ney-
land has good Tennessee delegation
headed for Birmingham.
Alabama will bank again on Mosleys
passing and running, plus zivich, Holm
and others who have a much better
lineup front than Frank Thomas had
= year ago.
It would be cheerful news to report
chat Harvard. Yale and Princeton had
q gentler day ahead. But Harvard
has fine Army team; Yale has
fast. hard-hitting Navy team, and
Princeton has Pennsylvania.
Army, Navy and Pennsylvania are
not our idea of resting spot in a
quiet land. It would be no shocking
surprise at this spot to see the old
Big Three drop eight of their first
Eine games.