Evening star., 1938-11-05
Big Conference
Scraps: Crowd
Grid Gard
IntersectionoI PIoy
Puts Many Major
Teams on Spot
BY HUGH S. FULLERTON, Jr.,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

Associated Press Sports Writer.
NEW YORK. Nov. 5.-A milestone
in college football history will be
marked today when Rutgers and
Princeton, the teams that began the
intercollegiate game back in 1869.
clash in the new Rutgers Stadium
at New Brunswick. N. J. But to
find the best football on the Nations
program, search would take one
long way from the no-longer sleepy
college town on the banks of the old
Raritan.
Teams that probably could beat
either Princeton or Rutgers without
half trying are scheduled to vie for
sectional or national honors OH
other fields.
Conference championship hopes
are at stake in the Big Ten, where
Northwestern tackles an always
dangerous Wisconsin outfit; Ohio
State, co-leader with the Wildcats.
tackles Purdue. and Minnesota tries
to take it out on Iowa It's an even
keener battle on the Pacific Coast.
where California and Southern Cali
fornia, sharing the lead with four
conference victories apiece, come to
grips in a game that likely will de-
eide the title. Stanford Washington
and Washington State-U. C. l.. A.
meet in other coast circuit games.
Many Intersectional Tits.
In other major loops the races ease
of a trifle, but there are intersec-
tional tilts to take up the slack in
interest. Starting with the East,
where Fordham-St. Mary's is tops,
they can be found everywhere.
Other intersectional games on the
Eastern seaboard include Harvard
Chicago, Boston College Indiana,
Navy-Notre Dame. Columbia-Vir-
ginia, Villanova Auburn. Manhat-
tan-North Carolina State, Mar
shall-Furman and Boston University
Tampa. If that doesn't satisfy the
fans. there are Michigan-Penn,
Western Reserve-West Virginia,
South Carolina-Duquesne, Clemson
George Washington, Centenary-Ari-
zona and Texas Tech-Loyola New
Orleans), for few others.
Then. too, the mighty men of
Pitt and other candidates for top
most national honors meet every
tough rivals. Pitt takes on its neigh
Dor, Carnegie Tech. which gave
Notre Dame peck of trouble, while
Syracuse Colgate, Holy Cross Tenn
pie and Yale-Brown help round out
the Eastern slate. Only two rank
ing teams. undefeated Dartmouth
and Army. take it easy against Dick
nson and Franklin and Marshall re-
spectively.
Trouble Looms In Big Six.
Almost any one of the Big Six
members is liable to meet trouble as
Oklahoma plays Kansas State and
Kansas meets Nebraska in confer
ence games: and Missouri meets
Michigan State and pace-setting
Iowa State plays Drake.
Texas Christian, Southwest Con-
ference leader. appears in little dan
ger against Tulsa, but Rice and
Southern Methodist. undefeated in
the circuit, play Arkansas and Texas
A. and M. respectively, and Baylor
meets last-place Texas.
Tennessee, pace-setter in the
Southeastern circuit, has a breather
against Chattanooga and Duke
Southern Conference leaders have
an open date. Otherwise there's
plenty of action in the South with
such games as Alabama Tulane.
Georgia Tech-Kentucky. Louisiana
State-Mississippi State, North Caro-
lima Virginia Tech. Virginia Mill
tary-Wake Forest and The Citadel
Richmond.
In the Rocky Mountain Big Seven,
Utah and Brigham Young, tied for
the lead. take on pair of tough RI
walls in Colorado and Utah State.
Last nights outstanding game saw
Georgetown. still undefeated and ur
tied, conquer Bucknell, 1870, as til
Hoyas combined a sturdy defen .
with some clever running and pas =
ing by Joe Mellendeck. In the be
Middlewestern tilt yesterday. VAS
ington of st. Louis trimmed Oki
homa Aggies, 24-0. and in the Sou; =
Miami routed Oglethorpe. 40.