Evening star., 1939-11-18
in Big Six,
Southern Loop
Issues
Western Conference,
Southwest Crowns
Near Settlement
By HUGH S. FULLERTON, Jr.,
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Associated Press Sports Writer.
NEW YORK, Nov. 18.-The Yale
Princeton game is on at New Haven
today and that's sign df any Is
needed that the 1899 football sea-
son has just about reached its peak.
The Importance of that Yale
Princeton tussle merely is tradi-
tional, but tradition still tosses
lot of weight around on football
fields. These teams, who have been
at it since 1873, always come to-
gether in mid November, a week
before their seasons end Most
other teams try to schedule their
biggest games about the same time.
Roll of Big Gamess
Skipping across the sectional
boundaries like a halfback with
clear field ahead, today's program
of biggest games is this:
Missouri Oklahoma, Northwest
ern Noue Dame, Illinois Ohio
State and Minnesota-Iowa in the
Midwest; Tennessee Vanderbilt.
Duke North Carolina and Georgia
Tech Alabama in the South; Yale
Princeton, Cornell Dartmouth, Col
gate-Syracuse, Holy Cross,
Nebraska Pittsburgh, Michigan
Pennsylvania. st. Mary's-Fordham
and Tulane Columbia in the Fast;
Texas Aggies-Rice and Texas Chris
tian-TeXas in the Southwest; Santa
Clara-U. c. L. A. and California
Oregon State on the Pacific Coast
and Colorado Brigham Young and
Utah-Colorado State in the Rocky
Mountain Big Seven.
A lot of these games, like that
affair at New Haven, stand out only
because they always have, but they'll
also draw big crowds because they
bring together major" teams of
different sections, or because the
teams still have outside chances of
winning sectional or conference
titles.
Torrid Big Six Tussle.
There's a real decisive affair on
at Columbia, Mo, however. Okla
homa's Sooners. unbeaten and tied
only by Southern Methodist, come
up against Missouri's fine eleven,
which lost to Ohio State early this
season, but hasn't even been threat
ened in Big Six competition. The
winner likely will walk off with the
conference title. If Oklahoma comes
through it's almost sure to get a
New Year Day Bowl bid, but the
Tigers and their widely advertised
passing star, Paul Christmas, aren't
likely to be rolled aside without a
struggle.
The Duke-North Carolina game
is another natural There's an
old and torrid rivalry and the
Southern Conference title is the
main stake Neither has lost In the
circuit and North Carolina's worst
setback has been a tie with mighty
Tulane,
Tennessee and Texas A. and NJ.
both undefeated and united and
ready to put up claims to being the
Nations best football team, run up
against opponents in position to pull
OF upsets. Both Vanderbilt and
Rice probably have better teams
than their dismal records show and
they certainly have nothing to lose
by gambling for victory.
Buckeyes Can Clinch.
IT wouldn't be much of an upset,
however, if Dartmouth should beat
Cornell, generally rated the East's
best team. The Indians have spoiled
perfect records for their traditional
rivals before-last year was the
latest occasion-and despite last
weeks loss to Princeton they're a
pretty good team.
Ohio State can clinch the Big
Ten crown by beating Illinois, as
expected, providing Iowa's Hawk
eyes fail to negotiate the big Min
nesota hurdle. Otherwise it won't
be settled until next week, the last
of the conference campaign.
Arkansas virtually handed the
Texas Aggies the Southwest Con-
ference title yesterday by upsetting
Southern Methodist, 14-0. on a
steady attack led by Kay Fakin
and Ralph Atwood The Aggies
have two games to 60, counting to-
days, but every other conference
team but Baylor already has lost
two.