Evening star., 1939-10-21
Top Gate Drawn
By '|rish'-Navy
cleveland
Army-YoIe, 'Bomo-VoI,
Big Duel in Texas
Are High Lights
BY HUGH s. FULLERTON, Jr.
Associated Press Sports Writer.


NEW YORK. Oct 2l.-Army plays
Yale in the East; Notre Dame en-
counters Navy at Cleveland; Ala
bama and Tennessee bump together
and Duke tackles Syracuse on
Southern gridirons; the unbeaten
Texas Aggies meet the 1898 cham
pion Texas Christian Longhorns in
the Southwest.
These are the high lights of today's
college football program, and If
they don't offer practically every
thing that can be desired by the most
eager fans, it probably will turn up
somewhere in dozens of other games
of almost equal importance.
The Army-Yale game is, of course.
an Eastern tradition. OF their rec
ords, they're just couple OF rather
unimportant teams, but years of coll
orful competition have built up this
37th meeting into a spectacle that
is expected to draw 10000 fans.
Peak Crowd at Cleveland.
Some 10000 customers are expect
ed to jam their way into Cleveland's
Municipal Stadium for the tile be-
tween unbeaten Notre Dame and
Nays strong team, which may be
due to release the punch" it lacked
In earlier contests.
In the South. Tennessee. champion
OF the Southeastern Conference last
year, gets its first real test of the
year against Alabama's S fine team;
Duke, beaten at Pittsburgh last
week, is favored to make a come
back at Syracuse's expense, while
North Carolina and Tulane meet in
an important interconference bat
tie.
In addition to the Texas A. and
MT. c. U. struggle in the South
west, Texas University's sophomores
face Arkansas and Southern Meth
odist faces Marquette in an inter-
sectional contest.
Farther West there isn't so much
excitement. The California WASH
ington State and Oregon State
Oregon games are the only Pacific
Coast Conference games, and neither
seems to have much to do with the
race for the championship. Utah,
Rocky Mountain district big shot.
faces Idaho in a non-conference
clash.
East is Lively Sector.
But there's plenty of action
throughout the East and Middle
West. For instance. Pitts unbeaten
Panthers tackle Duquesne in q
neighborhood brawl; unbeaten Cor
nell meets unbeaten Penn State:
Carnegie Techs fine team faces
New York University; Princeton
Columbia and Penn-Harvard are
major Ivy League" contests, while
Manhattan plays Auburn, West Vir-
ginia meets Washington and Lee
and Rutgers faces Maryland in in
tersectional tits.
The Big Ten offers such battles
as Ohio State-M Minnesota, test for
the tltle-seeking Buckeyes; North
WESTERN Wisconsin. Indiana Illinois
and Michigan's workout against
OAASo6o. ANSoA oohd, COIIQuCIOl Ol
Minnesota. takes on Baylor from the
Southwest; Oklahoma and Kansas
hook up in the leading Big Six battle,
while Missousi plays Kansas State.
First Win for Sewanee.
There's a bit of breathing spell
in the South aside from the three
biggest games, but Vanderbilt plays
Georgia Tech and Kentucky tackles
Georgia in less important South
eastern Conference games.
In last nights rather scattered
contests, George Washington rallied
to defeat The Citadel, 1877; Washing
ton University of st. Louis handed
Creighton an unexpected 1912 set
back to tangle the Missouri Valley
Conference race; Sewanee earned
its first victory, 81 decision over
Tennessee Tech and Pop Warmers
San Jose (Calif) State team hung
up its seventh straight victory,
beating A. A. Stages College of the
Pacific squad, 1873.