The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-10-15
PITT-WISCONSIN'
BEST In EASTa
RAMS ARE READY
Minnesota and Michigan
May Be CIOse-Texas
Teams in. Tangle Y
BY HARRY FERGUSON
UNITED Press SnNrts Editor

UNITED Press SUOrts EditOf)
New York, Oct. 15.-(UP).-1f the
law Of averages means anything
and nobody has ever kicked II
around much--at least one Of the
"bi: Ave" among the football teams
Ia going to be nat on Its back IN
the dust of defeat come shutdown
today.
This Is the afternoon that the
"big five"-Minnesota, Pittsburgh,
California, Texas Christian and Ala
bama-get down to business against
rough, tough opposition. 1t vii lbe
a miracle II all come through UNI
scathed.
The Minnesota powerhouse triea
Its luck against Michigan, o team
of surprising strength that has
piled up SO points In two games.
They play this one for "the little
brown jug" and the word out OF
Minneapolis Is that one touchdown
may tell the story.
Pittsburgh, with one OF the great.
est Of the great backhelds that have
run, passed and kicked for Jock
Sutherland, risks It's unbeaten rec
ord against O Wisconsin team good
enough to score AZ points against
powerful Marquette,
California, which this morning
looks like the hope OF the West In
the Rose Bowl, may look like some-
thing entirely different after 1t gets
through playing u. g. L. A. this
afternoon. The UCLAN'S lost o IA
~ game TO Oregon, but they're load
ed for California.
At College Station, Tex. Texas
Christian University has to risk Its
great record this season against 0
wiry Texasc A. e. M. squad that has
yielded only seven points this year
Santa Clara got those seven points
for Texas A. 81 Ms only defeat.
This game stacks up favorably
against any In the nation.
Those two oid.time enemies, Ala.
bama and Tennessee, will claw So
each other ut Birmingham each try
Ing TO keep It's record clear Of de.
feat. Alabama, with its victory over
Southern California In the season
opener, looks like 1t has the edge.
But when Alabama plays Tennessee.
you might a. well raise the window
and throw al the dope down the
well.
Those Ave games will draw most
Of the national interest, but there u
going to be plenty OF hard, Interest,"
ing football played In other sta
diuns.
In the East the afternoon Will
bring Fordham out OF hiding after
two early-season breathers. Purdue
travels TO New York with q great
reputation coming along ahead Of 1t
to find out how good the mysterious
Fordham outfit really Is. Other good
ones In the East: North Carolina vs..
N. Y. u; Princeton VS.. Pennsyl-
vania; Navy vs. Yale: Syracuse vs..
Cornell; Dartmouth vs.. Brown;
Army vs.. Harvard; and Columbia vs.
Colgate. 4.
The Far West offers Stanford w..
Oregon, and that Is likely 70 be as
good q game as there Is west NJ the
Mississippi; y. 8. O. vs.. Washing"
ton State; and Washington vs.. Orc
gon State.
Below the Mason. Dixon line good"
teams will collide all over the lard
scape. Tulane plays Rice and that
one has given the picker sthe shud-
ders al week. Duke and Georgia
Tech Is another one that will des.
troy the reputation Of Q hundred ex-
perts and Baylor Centenary Is
strictly fiip-a-coin choice. Van
derbilt-Mississippi and Auburn
Mississippi State are two more
tough ones to figure.
Out on the prairies Nebraska ano
Indiana will put on Q whale OF O
game and II you feel lucky try 70
get the winners between Marquette
and Kansas State and Oklahoma
and Kansas.
There isn't any such thing as 0
national championship" but folks
who like 10 talk about II VIII lave
plenty OF material around the break
fast table tomorrow morning.