Evening star., 1939-10-30
Cornell Triumph
Boosts Eastern
Grid Prestige
Southeastern Honors
Probably at Stake
In VoI-L. S. u. Tilt
BY HUGH S. FULLERTON, Jr.
Associated Press Sports Writer.

NEW YORK, Oct. 30-The pay.
off" month of the college football
season-November- this week
with just the kind of games that
can be expected in the more i'm
portant half of the campaign.
The first half of the battle for ma
tional honors, winding up last Sat-
urday, produced about the results
that could be expected. There were
innumerable "upsets" at the start,
dwindling in number as the teams
began to show real strength and
weakness The end of October
found not more than II unbeaten
race for the mythical national
crown
Starting part 2. the major" un-
beaten and united teams are:
East-Cornell, Duquesne. Catho-
lie: South-Tennessee, Kentucky:
MidWest-Notre Dame, Michigan;
Southwest-TeXas A. and NJ; Rocky
Mountain-Colorado Mines; Pacific
Coast-Oregon State, San Jose
(CalifJ State.
Tied but still undefeated are Dart
mouth and Georgetown, in the aEst;
Tulane. North Carolina and Rich
mond, in the South: Nebraska and
Oklahoma. in the Midwest; South
ern California and U. c. L. A.. on
the West Coast, and Utah (tied
twice., in the Rocky Mountain Big
Seven.
Not All in Title Pack.
Not all of these teams, of course,
can be considered national title
prospects. BY the same token, there
are lot of real contenders which
have been beaten. often by the one
point that sometimes spells the diff
ference between a perfect season
and ruined one
Contenders for sectional and con-
ference championships take in a lot
more ground. The situation, by Sec
tions. shapes up like this for the
first week end of November:
East-1ts been long time since
any one team did so much to aid
the prestige OF Eastern football as
Cornell did last Saturday by whip
ping Ohio State. 23-l4. after spot
ting the Big Ten ''powerhouse" the
first two touchdowns. That triumph
automatically installed the big red
team as the East's No. / power, and
next Saturdays game against CO.
lumbia, despite the Lions decisive
26-7 win over Virginia Military,
shouldn't hurt Cornells stock.
Duquesne, 1870 winner over Texas
Tech Friday, faces another stiff in
tersectional test against Marquette.
and Catholic. 14-0 winner over
Miami, meets Tulsa of the Missouri
Valley Conference.
Dartmouth encounters its tradi-
tlonally troublesome enemy. Yale,
but off the Green's easy 1910 win
over Harvard and Yale's 27-7 licking
by Michigan, Dartmouth figures to
remain undefeated. Georgetown,
after beating George Washington,
TO, meets West Virginia. which tied
South Carolina, 6-6, Friday.
The biggest games on the Eastern
schedule pit Army, which hasn't
| shown much this season. against
Notre Dame and Harvard against
Princeton. which tuned up with a
26-12 win over Brown. Notre Danes
flne unbeaten team just managed
to stave of Carnegie Tech, 7-6, while
the Cadets routed Ursinus, 46-l3.
Penn Encounters Navy.
Pennsylvania, knocked out Of the
picture by 30-6 licking from North
Carolina, meets Navy, 15-7 victim
OF Clemson. Fordham, which came
back as an Eastern threat by whip
ping Pitt, 27-13, tackles Rice's hap
less Owls in an intersectional test.
New York u, 14-13 winner over a
stubborn Georgia team. eases of
against Lafayette. Boston College
and Holy Cross, still ranked among
the Eastern leaders, play Auburn
and Providence, respectively.
South-1t's Tennessee, the Nationa
ranking team in last weeks Asso-
ciated Press poll, against Louisiana
State with the Southeastern Confer
ence title as the probable stake. The
volunteers knocked of Mercer, ITO,
while L. S. U. turned back Wander
bilt. 1876.
Kentucky, co-leader with Tennes-
see, Georgia Tech and Tulane, faces
Alabama, which turned back Mis-
slssippi State. 10, in another major
battle. Mississippi beaten for the
flrst time by Tulane. 1876, encounters
Vanderbilt. Georgia Tech plays
Duke, which gained a second-place
tie in the Southern Conference with
a hard-won 60 decision over Wake
Forest. Tulane has an open date.
North Carolina. with the South
ern Conference pack on its heels,
returns to its own league to play
North Carolina State, while Rich
mond tackles v. NJ. I.
Virginia meets Chicago and Miami
plays Texas Tech in the South's best
intersectional tilts.
Buckeyes in Stage Center.
Midwest-In spite of that thump-
ing from Cornell, Ohio State plays
the leading role in the Big Ten, fac
ing Indiana. The Bucks still are
tied with Michigan for the confer
ence lead, while Indiana's Hoosiers,
idle last week. are real threat.
Michigan should win another from
Illinois, 1870 victim of Northwestern.
Northwestern plays Minnesota's so
far disappointing team, and Iowa,
1913 winner over Wisconsin, plays
(See FULLERTON, Page A-l8)