Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-11-11
Tough Contests
In All Sections
On Program
Texas Aegies, S. N. U.
Rated Tops Among
Battles Curded
BY HUGH S. FULLERTON, Jr.,

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Associated Press Sports Writer.
NEW YORK, Nov. l.-This may
not be the biggest Saturday of the
football season, mostly because the
make-or- break games of the Sec
tional championship races aren't on
the program, but it would be hard
to make up better national list
than you'd find by taking a couple
of the outstanding games from each
section.
The list would include, say, Pitt
Carnegie Tech, Missouri New York
University and Dartmouth Prince
ton in the East, Alabama Tulane
and Kentucky Georgia Tech in the
South, Notre Dame Iowa and Min
nesota- Michigan in the Midwest,
Texas Aggies-Southern Methodist
and Texas-Baylor in the Southwest
and Michigan State-Santa Clara
and Oregon State-Oregon on the
Pacific Coast. That, of course,
wouldn't take in all the best teams.
but the ones that win WILL HAVE
TO BE GOOD.
That battle for Southwest Con-
ference laurels between Texas A. and
NJ and the Southern Methodist
Mustangs probably is tops if you
have to pick out one contest. The
unbeaten. united Aggies seem head
ed for their first conference title
since 1927 and the Mustangs loom
as the only team with real chance
to stop that march.
Three Trailing Tennessee.
Tulane, Kentucky and Georgia
Tech are tied for runner-up honors
in the Southeastern Conference be-
hind the mighty Tennessee outfit.
But today's games aren't likely to
have much bearing on the title I'M
less some one manages to trip up
the Volunteers, who go outside their
circuit again for "breather"
against The Citadel. Still they're
major" battles and so is Mississippi
State-Louisiana State.
North Carolina and Duke. the
Southern Conference pace settlers,
figure to do right we'll against
Davidson and Virginia Military. re-
spectively. though there's nothing
soft about such opposition.
The Eastern leaders, Cornell and
Duquesne, don't have anything but
upsets to fear against Colgate and
North Carolina State if the records
mean anything, and the best games
likely will turn out to be Pitt VS..
Carnegie, where there's nothing
much at stake. the clash between
tied but unbeaten Dartmouth and
once-defeated Princeton. and the
intersectional struggle between two
fine passing teams, Missouri and
N. Y. U.
Other outstanding attractions are
the colorful Army Harvard affair,
Penn Penn State. Temple Holy
Cross and Indiana F'ordham.
Iowa. with Nile Kinnick, hopes to
knock Notre Dame off its unbeaten
perch. Michigan. last weeks upset
victim, and Minnesota, winner of
only one game so far, hope to re-
deem themselves in this annual
struggle. Ohio State figures to hold
its Big Ten lead easily against Chi
cago and Oklahoma is favored to
take Kansas State and tie Missouri
for the Big Six lead.
Trojans Outclass Stanford.
Southern California, sharing the
Pacific Coast Conference lead with
U. c. L. A., is rated far above STAN
ford, the traditional rival it meets
today. while the Uclans are idle.
Oregon and Oregon State, mean
while. are tied for the runner-up
spot.
In the Mountain States Big
Seven, since the def1ation of Utah,
they're apparently waiting for the
Colorado-Denver game November
30 to settle the title. Denver faces
Colorado State today and Utah
plays the University of Hawaii
Wyoming, last-place club of the
Big Seven, took 1876 drubbing
from st. Louis University, member
of the Missouri Valley Conference,
last night.
In other important Friday con-
tests, Virginia conquered Washing
ton and Lee, TO, on fourth-period
drive, and Miami of Florida routed
another Missouri Valley loop team,
Drake, 1876, as Terry Fox led a
attack. Two unbeaten and
united small schools, Maryville (MoD
Teachers and De Sales. beat Kinks
vile, 1913. and Grand Rapids
(Mich) College, 26-0, respectively.