Evening star., 1938-10-22
RATINGS H|NC|NG
ON PITTS SUCCESS
South, Southwest Stick to
Own Knitting as Others
Wander for Frays.
BY HUGH S. FULLERTON. Jr.
Associated Press Sports Writer,

NEW YORK, Oct. % LP.-Demon.
strating, perhaps, that October football
still is early-season stuff to prepare
the boys for the November tasks Of
battering at old and honored rivals,
there's flood Of intersectional games
on the national gridiron program to-
day.
A dozen or so games will have i'm
portant bearings upon ma jor sectional
or conference races. At least twice as
many are rated as first-line intersec-
tlonal battles. The result, from one
angle, Is about the same, however.
The major tests should attract some
where around half million fans.
Opinion is divided over the four
leading intersectional tussles in the
East-whether the most interesting
spectacle should be the clash of Michi-
gan's Western Conference contenders,
suddenly come to life this year under
FTltz Crisler's coaching, and Yale's
steadily improving team; Fordham's
stubborn Rams and the Oregon Web
foots, the Pittsburgh Powerhouse and
the Southern Methodist Aerialists or
Holy Cross and the Georgia Bulldogs.
Big Choice in Midwest.
In the Midwest there's Just as wide a
range of choice, with Notre Dame VS..
Carnegie Tech undoubtedly the No.
attraction. In the second rank there
are Michigan State-Syracuse, Mar.
quette-TexaS Christian, Iowa Colgate.
Xavier-Kentucky, Creighton West Vir.
ginia, Drake-Miami (Fla) and North
Dakota Montana.
Except for sending a few top-flight
teams into other sections, the South
and Southwest stick pretty close to
their own knitting, but in the Rocky
Mountain sector there is the intersec-
tional Brigham Young Portland tilt,
while on the Pacific Coast Santa
Clara, rated the best team in the dis
trict, although it's not a conference
member. tackles Arkansas from the
Southwest circuit.
On the other side. leading confer
ence clashes are Northwestern-I Illinois
aid Purdue Wisconsin in the Big Ten,
where mighty Minnesota is idle and
Ohio State plays Chicago. Oklahoma.
Nebraska and Iowa State-Kansas
make pair Of real Big Six tussles and
Indiana plays Kansas State in an
interconference clash.
Great Southeast Scrap.
A night game between Louisiana
State and the Tigers 1887 conquerer,
Vanderbilt, heads the Southeast Con.
ference slate. Alabama -Sewanee and
Georgia Tech-Auburn are other con-
ference tests. Southern Conference
leaders apparently have few worries as
Duke meets Wake Forest, and North
Carolina plays Davidson. N. C. State
Furman. Washington and Lee-Vir-
ginia Tech and William and Mary
V. M. I. round out the slate.
Baylor's Bears and Texas Aggies top
the Southwest Conference, while Rice
meets Texas. In the Rocky Mountain
Big Seven Colorado Colorado
Wyoming and Utah State
Utah provide plenty Of action.
Stanford and Southern California
meet in the most interesting coast
conference contest while California and
Washington come together, Oregon
State plays Washington State and u.
c. L. A. tackles Idaho's Vandals.
Dartmouth East's Favorite.
Swinging back to the East's ivy
League" Dartmouth's undefeated In
dlans encounter potentially danger
Gus Harvard outfit in renewal Of one
of the classic rivalries. Others are
Penn-Columbia, Navy-Princeton, Cor
nell-Penn State and Wesleyan-Am-
herst.
Temples comeback to gain a 1926
tie with favored Boston College team
shared interest last night with Missis-
sippi States intersectional triumph
over Duquesne, 1871 A 5O-yard run
back OF kickoff. followed by 52-yard
pass from Glen Stevens to Jim Powers
produced the tie. George Washington
preserved its undefeated- d-unscored- on
record by whipping Davis and Elkins,
27-0.
North Dakota State scored a 1910
lntersectional triumph over Greeley
State of Colorado, Wichita trimmed
Washburn, 35-6. and st. Louis Uni
versity walloped Grinnell, 27-7, in
Friday headliners in the Midwest. On
the Pacific Coast. Arizona conquered
Loyola of Los Angeles, 1912.