The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-10-18
PITT PAINTERS
 HEADED FOR '38
 NATIONAL TITLE
Sutherland ScOrns For ward Passes; Minn.,
 NOtre Dame Strong
BY GEORGE KIRKsEY United Press Staff Correspondent

United Press Statf Correspondent
 New York, Oct. lS (UPJ = Uneasy rests the head that wears a football crown but the Pittsburgh Panthers, mythical national cham pions of 1887, and the pick of this years eastern teams, scorn the pit- falls that wreck ordinary clubs as they roll on to greater gridiron tri- umphs.
 Heading into their fifth game of the season, the Partners look like the greatest team not only of the east but of the nation, They have crushed West Virginia, Temple, Du- quesne and Wisconsin with consum- mate ease. Ahead are s, M. U., Fordham, Varnegie Tech, Nebraska, Penn State and Duke. An unbeaten season would stamp Pitt as the years wonder team.
 In swamping hitherto unbeaten Wisconsin last week, 26-6, Pitt cm~ phasized once again It's tremendous power attack, in which Dr. Jock Sutherland gets more blocRers ahead of the ball carrier than any other coach. Power ahead of the ball is Dr. Sutherland's credo and with runners like Goldberg, Cas- siano, Stebbins and Chickerneo charging behind devastating block ing that means touchdowns.
 Few Passes
 Sutherland scorns the forward pass but when his teams use 1t they have the defense set up for a run ming play and thus usually cash in on one during a game. In the Wis consin game Pitt tossed only four passes but one of them was good for 70 yards and a touchdown.
 Pitts toughest spots ahead appear to be Fordham, boasting the best attack in years; Carnegie Tech, which showed surprising strength in upsetting Holy Cross last week, 7-6; and Duke, conqueror of Colgate and Georgia Tech.
 With the season nearing the mid way mark Pitt is definitely the class of the east. The only two serious challengers are Dartmouth and Sy- racuse. Dartmouth, featuring trio of brilliant backs In Bill Hutchin- son, Bob Macleod and Colby Howe showed It's class by spotting Brown touchdown last Saturday and then crushing her, 34-l3. Having prev lously smacked down Princeton, 22-C Dartmouth looked even stronger after the Tigers upset unbeaten Penn. 13-0. The weak spots in Dart- mouths schedule discount her na- tional championship hopes.
 Syracuse may not quite rank up with Pitt and Dartmouth but no one can deny that the orange put on one Of the most breath taking fal- lies of this or any other season to beat Cornell Saturday. Trailing, l0-0 with nine minutes left to play, Sy- racuse whipped over three touch- downs to win, 1917. In this cyclonic surge sidat-Singh, adopted son of Hindu physician, tossed i've passes for l62 yards and three touchdowns in less than five minutes.
 Colgate, although beaten twice showed strength by beating Colum' bia, 1920, and demonstrated how to stop Sid Luckman's passing. Col gates ends smothered Lucgman'f E efforts and harried him so he finally tossed e Colgate touchdown on an interception.
 The big three bounced back with bang, Princeton showing class in stopping Penn, Yale staging a whirl- wind finish to upset Navy, and Har- yard just failing to trim army in 20-i7 thriller.
 Rams Strong
 Fordham, noted for it's great de- fensive teams, finally has developed an attack. Halfback Leonard Esh. mont already is hailed as the great est runner in Ram history. Inexper- fence cost Fordham victory over Purdue as the Rams gained 4if yards to the Boilermakers' i20 but had to settle for q 6-6 tie.
 Two familiar names - Minnesota and Notre Dame-are the ruling powers in the midwest.
 | lUC 1OlueH 1OpIlcIb IFOll Mltltle- apolis and the Fighting Irish from South Bend have established them- selves as the teams to beat in that section. No one has ben able to turn the trick yet, and there's good chance that the two will fight 1t out for midwest supremacy when they collide November i2.
 Notre Dame faces the greater burden Before they meet Minne- sota, the Irish must hurdle a tough Carnegie Tech team Saturday and then take on the two service teams Army and Navy in that order-on successive week-ends.
 Minnesota gets well-earned rest this weekend before tackling one of the Big Tens foremost chal- lengers- Northwestern After thai comes Iowa, which isn't expected tc furnish any trouble. Then Notrt I NA