Evening star., 1939-10-07
South and West
Turn on Grid :
Title Heat
IntersectionuI Games
Abound; Furmon Win
Is Leading Upset
BY HUGH s. FULLERTON, Jr.
Associated Press Stan Writer,

NEW YORK, Oct. 7.-Southern
and Western football teams. a step
or two ahead of rivals from other
sections, get down to the serious
business of settling conference titles
today, while outstanding teams of
the East, Midwest and Southwest
continue to concentrate on intersec-
tional and interconference clashes.
Although Alabama and Louisiana
State, two of the Southeastern cir
cults top-ranking teams, engage in
intersectional clashes in the North
east with Fordham and Holy Cross,
respectively, and Georgia Tech faces
Notre Dame at South Bend, no few
er than eight others in the loop
engage in conference contests. The
Kentucky-Vanderbilt clash looks to
be the only close one of the lot, as
mighty Tennessee takes on Sewanee,
Tulane plays Auburn and the sur
prising Mississippi State team meets
Florida.
In the Southern Conference, Duke,
defending champion and the team
to beat again this year, plays Col
gate, an Eastern rival. But there
are four conference games-North
Carolina, current leader, against
Virginia Tech; Clemson against
North Carolina State, v. M. I.
against Davidson and Richmond
against Washington and Lee.
Trojans Try Comeback.
Pacific Coast and Rocky Noun
tain Big Seven Conference teams
also are concerned mainly with
their own groups. Southern Cali
fornia, picked the Coast Conference
No. l team until it was tied by
Oregon, tries a comeback against
Washington State. Oregon plays
Stanford and U. c. L. A. faces
washington. California tackles its
old non-conference rival st. Mary's.
Utah, Big Seven leader, seems to
have a soft touch against Wyoming,
while Utah State plays Colorado
and Colorado State meets Brigham
Young.
In contrast, Iowa Indiana in the
Big Ten and Iowa State-Kansas
IN the Big Six are the only major
Midwestern Conference tits. Ar
kansas and Texas Christian meet in
the only Southwest Conference game.
The East, which has no formal or
ganization. offers only the Yale
Columbia "Ivy League" contest.
Nevertheless, there are plenty of
good games in these sections: Min
nesota-Nebraska, Oklahoma North
western, Missouri-Ohio State and
Texas-Wisconsin, on the Midwestern
front; Baylor Oklahoma Aggies and
Centenary Rice, in the Southwest,
and Pittsburgh-West Virginia, Cor
nell-Syracuse, Navy-Virginia and
Temple-Carnegie Tech, in the East.
Furman Victor BY Surprise.
Southern teams also played lead
ing roles in the rather dizzy Friday
night doings. with Furman turning
IN the biggest surprise by whipping
Georgia, 300. Wake Forest added
to Southern Conference prestige by
trimming Miami. 1870, and the
Citadel best Presbyterian, 1877. In
reverse, South Carolina, which
spoiled Villanova's unbeaten record
last year with a tie, took a 400
beating from the Wildcats at Phila-
delphia.
Boston College downed st. Joseph's
in the other major Eastern game,
20-6. In the Midwest, Kansas State
conquered Marquette, 80, with a
50-yard drive and a fourth-period
field goal by Jim Brock. Drake, Mis-
souri, Valley Conference leader, beat
Grinnell, 1870. Bradley Tech tied
st. Louis University, 90, and Omaha
beat Montana State, 1910.
New Mexico turned in its second
victory over Rocky Mountain Big
Seven team, beating Denver, 7-6.
Texas A. and NJ, rated one Of the
strongest in the Southwest Con-
ference, had to come from behind to
whip Santa Clara, 7-3.