Evening star., 1940-11-04
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BY HUGH s. FULLERTON, Jr.,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

NEW YORK, Nov. 4.-Minnesota
plays Michigan next Saturday; the
Texas Aggies encounter Southern
Methodist and Stanford meets
Washington. When these games
are over the long-suffering football
experts" may have some real idea
of who is who in the football world
this season.
Minnesota and Michigan are the
unbeaten and united survivors Of
the titanic struggle for the Western
Conference championship. The
Texas Aggies and Stanford have
equally perfect records and high
ranking. S. M. u, unbeaten, has
been tied once, but figures TO give
the Aggies the battle of the season
for Southwest Conference honors,
while Washington, defeated by Min
nesota at the start of the season,
is right behind Stanford in the
Pacific Coast Conference race.
Ranking with these on the list
of unbeaten and united candidates
for the mythical national title are
Cornell, Georgetown, Boston Col
lege, Notre Dame and Tennessee.
Penn State, Lafayette and Hardin
Simmons also have clean states and
Texas Tech has only one tie against
record. They don't appear to
rank quite as high as the others,
however.
Others Still Going Strong.
Pushing these leaders for sectional
honors are lot of teams that have
suffered setbacks. but still are going
strong. Among them are Pennsyl-
vania and Fordham in the East:
Nebraska, the undisputed Big Six
Conference leader; Mississippi, tied
with Tennessee for first in the
Southeastern Conference, and Duke
and Clemson, rivals for the South
ern Conference crown.
Looking them over one section at
time, the prospects for continued
success of the leaders are about like
this:
East-Cornell has played by far
the toughest schedule without show
ing a sign of let-down. Columbia,
considered a possible upsetter, was
Just 27-0 victim for the big red
team last Saturday and Yale, off
its showing so far which includes
a 60 loss to Brown last Saturday.
will be lucky to do as well this
week.
Georgetown didn't fall far short
of Cornells score when it beat Syra-
cuse, 28-6, for its 22d consecutive
game without a defeat. The Hoyas
enjoy a breather this week against
an old but weak rival. Maryland.
Boston Colleges $50 victory over
Manhattan helred the Eagles status
a trife, but they go back to minor
league company this week against
Boston University, 1910 victim Of
Western Reserve.
Fordham Tackles Purdue.
Penn State, which remained ur-
defeated by beating South Carolina.
1910, encounters Syracuse Saturday
and Lafayette. $50 winner over
Washington and jefferson, faces its
middle three" rival. Rutgers. Penn
sylvania, which rallied from its de-
feat by Michigan to trounce pre-
viously unbeaten Navy, 300, plays
Harvard. which fought PrincetonS 5
favored team to scoreless tie. Ford
ham, also beaten the previous week,
downed North Carolina, 14-0. and
now tackles Purdue, 2l-6 winner over
Iowa for its first Big Ten triumph.
Other games of major Importance
this week include Columbia against
Wisconsin, Holy Cross against Missis-
sippi Manhattan against Marquette,
Pittsburgh against Carnegie Tech,
Princeton against Dartmouth, which
beat Sewanee, 800, and Army
against Brown.
Midwest-Being held to q TO
score by an Army team which forgot
all about its dismal earlier record,
was a big let-down for Notre Danes
Fighting Irish and they'll probably
be out to make up for that showing
when they meet Navy at Baltimore
this week.
Michigan Faces Rough Road.
The Western Conference race was
reduced to a two-team affair when
Minnesota, dark horse" at the
start of the season, edged out North
western, 1912. If they can get past
Michigan by even as small margin,
the Gophers should have clear
road to the title. Michigan, how
ever, has to play Northwestern later
and the whole thing may wind up
in a tangle. This week North
Westerns Wildcats face Illinois, 1876,
victims of Wisconsin. Indiana,
beaten, 21-6, by Ohio State, meets
Michigan State, 800, winner over
Kansas State, while Iowa plays
Nebraska's powerful Cornhuskers,
who went to the top of the Big Six
standing with a 1870 win over
Oklahoma.
Oklahoma, now tied with Missouri
for second in their circuit, plays
Kansas, which was beaten, 1877, by
Villanova Friday. Missouri, which
passed its way to $50 decision over
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