Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-11
Hoya,B. Clash
Outstanding on
Week sCard
Minnesota, Texas Ags,
Stanford, Cornell
Get Little Respite
BY HUGH S. FULLERTON, Jr.,

Associated Press Sports Writer.
NEW YORK, Nov. lit takes
persistence as we'll as power to win
recognition as champion in any of
the big football conferences and as a
contender for the mythical national
title.
The half dozen top-ranking teams
in various sections of the United
States all have these two qualifica-
tons and the schedule shows just
how much they need them.
Minnesota's Golden Gophers, who
might easily choose to rest on the
laurels they won in successive one
point victories over Northwestern
and Michigan, run into Purdue next
That should be a comparatively easy
assignment, but the Boilermakers
turned in a couple of good early
season performances and gave a
tough Fordham team a real scrap
last Saturday before going down,
1877.
Cornell, the East's ranking power,
found Yale stubbornly resisting
opponent, but won 21-0. This week
it's Dartmouth, and although the
Indians record is fully as bad as
Yale's, they won't give up without
a struggle.
Stanford Not Sure of Crown.
Stanford virtually clinched the
Pacific Coast Conference title when
it came through in the last quarter
to beat Washington. 20-10. Still.
there's no assurance that Oregon
State won't make trouble this week.
The Beavers have lost only to
Washington and were tied by South
ern California and they tuned up
with 21-0 win over Washington
State.
The mighty Texas Aggies couldn't
be stopped by Southern Methodist,
a previously unbeaten team. They
won, 1877, and that only sent them
on to meet Rice. AT winner over
Arkansas, loser only once in six
starts and currently the No. team
in the Southwest Conference
In addition to this Big -Four" the
Nations list Of unbeaten and united
major" teams includes Boston Col
lege, GEORGETOWN. Notre Dame. Ten
neSSee and Hardin Simmons. Mich
lgan was the weeks only important
casual and the Wolverines 7-6 loss
to Minnesota didn't take much away
from their rating.
Penn State, held to a 1913 draw
by Syracuse: Mississippi State and
Texas Tech have been tied, but not
beaten.
Game to End All Debate.
For these teams. and the defeated.
but still important members of the
big time" fraternity, the weeks
prospects look something like this:
East-Saturday's Boston College
Georgetown game should settle the
important question of whether these
two teams belong in the same class
with mighty Cornell Neither had
much more than a lieht workout
preparing for it. B. c. ran over
Boston University. 21-0. and George
town swamped Maryland, 41-0.
Fordham, Duquesne, TO winner
over st. Mary's of California yes
terday, and Brown. which downed
Army. 1879, rank we'll I'D among the
once-beaten teams. The first two
are idle this week while Brown
meets Harvard, which produced one
Of last Saturdays biggest surprises
by holding Pennsylvania to a 1910
tie. Penn will try to start its come
back against Army while Penn State
makes a similar attempt against
New York University. 1910 con-
oueror of previously unbeaten
Franklin and Marshall.
Yale, Princeton Revive Feud.
Harding Simmons comes East to
play Catholic University, 1876 loser
to the strong Tulsa team last week.
The meeting between those ancient
rivals. Yale and Princeton, heads a
list of games of traditional i'm
portance which includes Syracuse
Colgate, Columbia Navy, Holy Cross
Temple and Pittsburgh-Nebras
Midwest-Michigan and North
western clash in the standout game
of the Western Conference, with
second place as the stake. The
winner will retain chance of beat
ing out Minnesota if the Gophers
are as tired as they should be by
now Injuries struck Northwestern
hard in winning over Illinois, 32-14
Notre Dame, which had another
hard afternoon beating Navy, 1877,
meets Iowa, 14-6 loser to Nebraska,
the leading team of the Big Six
Illinois faces Ohio State, and In
diana, 900 winner over Michigan
State, tackles Wisconsin, 7-6 victim
of Columbia, in other Big Ten
games.
Oklahoma. 1870 winner over Kan
sas, and Missouri, which whipped