Evening star., 1938-10-29
TITLES IN LOOPS
At STAKE TODAY
Army-hotre Dame, Fordham.
Pitt Head Great Card
of Grid Fixtures.
BY HUGH s. FULLERTON, Jr.,
Associated Press SPORTS Writer.

NEW YORK, Oct. 2s.-Three or
four games overshadow the rest of
great football program today as leading
teams from coast to coast hook up in
knocked drag-out battles with sec
tional and conference titles at stake
nearly everywhere.
There's Army-Notre Dame, Pitt.
Fordham and Northwestern Minnesota
for the topmost attractions and Duke
North Carolina and Texas Christian
Baylor running close behind.
There's nothing quite like an Army
Notre Dame game, not even the Army
Navy classic, so far as public interest
is concerned. And it's a natural this
year with the Irish" unbeaten and
Army only nosed out by Columbia.
The Pitt-Fordham battle of the
naughts-three successive scoreless
ties-seems due to produce some scor-
ing fireworks this time as two Of the
greatest teams come together. Min.
nesota. ranking power of the mighty
Western Conference, runs up against
Northwestern. which hasn't been
scored on and which usually gives the
Gophers their hardest struggle.
Southern Title at Stake.
Between them. North Carolina and
Duke should settle the Southern Con-
ference race, for they outclass the rest
of the league. If any team is to stop
the mighty men of T. c. U. this season,
Baylor's Bears look the best candidates.
AS far the rest of the program. it
includes the Ivy League" classics.
Harvard-Princeton, Columbia Cornell
and Penn-Navy in the East; Holy
Cross Colgate and Penn State-Sryacuse
in the Poison Ivy" group and such
intersectional affairs as Boston College
Florida, N. Y. U.-Ohio State and
George Washington Mississippi. which
was postponed from last night.
Battling for what Big Ten honors
Minnesota and Northwestern may
leave are Michigan and Illinois, Wis
consin and Indiana, Iowa and Purdue.
Nebraska Missouri and Kansas Kansas
State top the Big Six slate as Okla
homa tackles Tulsa and Iowa State
plays Marquette. The big Midwest
ern intersectional game is Michigan
State VS.. Santa Clara.
Big Battles In Dixie.
Highly important in settling the
Southeastern Conference race are the
Tennessee-Louisiana State. Vanderbilt
Georgia Tech, Kentucky Alabama and
Tulane Mississippi State games. v. P.
1.-North Carolina State, Richmond
Washington and Lee and Maryland-V.
M. I. help round out the Southern Con-
ference program. Centenary meets
Loyola of Los Angeles.
Since California, heading the parade.
isn't expected to have much trouble
with Oregan State. the Pacific Coast
race is quiescent, although U. c. L. A.
plays Stanford and Oregon meets
Southern California.
Texas A. and M. VS.. Arkansas. Texas
VS.. Southern Methodist and the inter-
sectional Rice-Auburn clash are
( Southwestern headliners In the
Rocky Mountain Big Seven Utah plays
Denver. Colorado meets Wyoming and
Colorado State faces Utah State.
Hoyas Head Victory Parade.
| Undefeated Georgetown led last
nights victory parade by whipping the
Temple Owls 1870. and Duquesne pro-
vided the principal intersectional upset
by toppling Detroits Ttans, 14-e.
South Carolina was a close second as
it tied unbeaten Villanova, 6-6.
/ Clemson downed Wake Forest, TO.
/ in q Southern Conference tilt and
Washburn downed Oklahoma Aggies.
40. in the Missouri Valley Confer
/ ence.