Evening star., 1938-10-10
UNbEATEN TEAMS
STRUGGLE IN EAST
Cornell and Syracuse Top
Card-'Bama, Tennessee
Headline in South.
BY HERBERT w. BARKER,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

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BY HERBERT w. BARKER,
Associated Press Sports Writer.
NEW YORK, Oct. 10.-Free finally
of potent competition from baseball,
the 1888 football season takes full
charge Of the sports scene this week.
Three weeks of preliminary firing,
marked on the whole by surprising
adherence to the form charts. simply
have whetted the appetites Of foot
ball fans for major tests to come.
Thus far it's been largely batting
practice, but from now on sectional
championship hopes will be on the
line week after week.
This weeks program lines up as
follows:
East: Two undefeated New York
State rivals, Cornell and Syracuse,
collide at Syracuse in the main domes-
tic battle Cornell, in triumphs over
Colgate and Harvard, the latter 400,
has shown great all-around strength
Syracuse routed Maryland, $50, last
week, but not yet really has been
tested
Four more unbeaten arrays meet
as Holy Cross, 1876 victor over Man
haitian, tackles Carnegie Tech, and
Dartmouth, 22-0 conqueror of Prince
ton on three long runs, engages
Browns vastly improved forces. Colum-
bia, paced by Sid Luckman and Art
Radvilas to a sensational 20-18 victory
over Army, tangles with Colgate, whose
sturdy defense held Duke to a TO
count.
Princeton Next for Peen.
Penn, whose potent attack built
around Francis Reagan and Jim Con-
nell crushed Yale 2l-0. the Ellis
first shutout in 81 successive games,
meets Princeton next. Harvard and
Army square off at Cambridge. Yale
may take its third straight beating
in a game with Navy. which rolled
up a $50 score on Virginia.
The intersectional program is headed
by the annual duel between untested
Fordham and Purdues Boilermakers,
who surprised by holding Minnesota to
TO decision. New York University,
meanwhile, entertains North Carolina; !;
Boston College plays Detroit; West
Virginia, shocked by 6-6 draw with
Washington and Lee, faces Michigan
State and Villanova plays host to
Centre College.
Middle West An intersectional bat
tie between Pitt and Wisconsin and a
perhaps crucial Big Ten match be-
tween Minnesota and Michigan share
top billing. Pitt and Wisconsin both
are unbeaten, the former routing
Duquesne, 27-0 and Wisconsin rolling
over Iowa, 3l-13, last week. Michigan,
under Fritz Crisler, seems to have
come a long way as 45-7 decision
over Chicago testifies, but the VOL
verines probably will be underdogs
against powerhouse Minnesota.
Ohio State, beaten lat by Southern
California passes, digs in against for
midable Northwestern, which routed
Drake, $50. Chicago and Iowa get
together in another Big Ten Confer
ence game.
Illinois Guns for "Irish."
Illinois, which surprised Indiana,
1872, will attempt to halt Elmer Lay
den's Notre Dame outfit, which had to
overcome stout resistance before top
ping Georgia Tech 14-6. Indiana
tackles Nebraska's Cornhuskers, who
celebrated Head Coach Biff Jones
birthday by dropping an all but unbe-
llevable 81 decision to Iowa States
Cyclones.
Big Six interest will center on the
meeting of Oklahoma, which halted
Texas, 1870, and Kansas, and the
clash at Columbia between Iowa State
and Missouri, beaten 21-13 by Kansas
State. The latter plays Friday night
against Marquette, whose TO conquest
OF Southern Methodist was one of last
weeks prime upsets.
South: Here the pivotal clash is
between undefeated Alabama and
Tennessee. Alabama was unimpressive
in a 14-0 setback of North Carolina
State while Tennessee was winning a
Southeastern Conference game from
powerful Auburn, TO. Mississippi.
which engineered a major surprise in
beating Louisiana State two weeks
ago, will try for another against Van
derbilt. hard pressed to stop Kentucky
14-7. Auburn and Mississippi State
pair of in the only other Southeastern
Conference game. Tulane's Green
Wave, which halted North Carolina,
17-14, now meets Rice, beaten, 80, by
Louisiana State on Guy Milnar's field
goal from the 25-yard line in the clos
ing minutes of play. Georgia Tech
plays Duke.
With Duke and North Carolina en-
gagged against non-conference rivals,
the Southern Conference race tenn
porarily is becalmed. Richmond, with
one conference triumph to its credit,
may come cropper against Virginia
Military, which held strong Clemson
to a TT draw. Wake Forest which
eked out 20-19 decision over South
Carolina, meets North Carolina State.
Furman and Citadel, Davidson and
South Carolina are the other confer
ence pairings.
T. C. Returns to Title Quest.
Southwest: Texas Christian, CO.
leader with Baylor, returns to con-
ference competition after routing
Temple. 1885, The Horned Frogs
meet Texas A. and NJ, which held
Santa Clara to TO score. Texas
apparently has small hope against Ar
kansas, which dropped heart-break-
ing 9-6 verdict to Baylor, when Bob
Nelson, sophomore center, booted a
field goal from the 19-yard line in
the last 80 seconds Of play. Baylor's
non-conference foe is Centenary.
Far West: A full Pacific Coast
Conference slate finds U. c. L. A.,
paced to a 1870 upset triumph over
Washington by Kenny Washington, ar
rayed against California's defending
champions in the outstanding engage
ment. Oregon, the current leader
with two victories and no defeats,