Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-14
Chance al Title
Seen for Hoyas
In East Group
Michigan, Tennessee,
Cornell, Stanford
Setting Hot Pace
BY HUGH S. FULLERTON, Jr,
Associated Press SPORTS Writer.

Associated Press Sports Writer.
NEW YORK, Oct. 14-By this
time next week football fans should
know lot more about where their
favorite teams belong in the ma
tional picture.
The first two Saturdays Of o.
tober have helped lot to sift out
the weak ones. but there is a lot
more to be done. Next Saturdays
schedule should help to do the job.
Still its a good idea to remember
that some of the teams that were
whipped a week ago already have
made notable comebacks and that
they'll continue to do that right up
to the end of the season.
Best Title Prospects.
Looking at things as they are
now, the best prospects in various
sections for the title awards appear
to be these:
East-Cornell, Pennsylvania, Bos-
ton College, Georgetown and Viii
lanova with Fordham. Navy and
Duquesne among the possibilities.
Midwest-Michigan Northwestern,
Minnesota and possibly Iowa in the
Big Ten: Nebraska and Missouri In
the Big Six, and, of course, Notre
Dame
South-Tennessee. Mississippi and
Alabama in the Southeastern Con-
ference; Clemson and Duke in the
Southern and independent" Vir-
ginia.
Southwest-Texas Aggies, Texas
and Rice. although they're all tough.
Rocky Mountain Big Seven-Utah
and Colorado with Denver a con-
ference threat.
Pacific Coast-Stanford. Washing
ton and Washington State with a
good chance that Southern Cali
fornia may make a comeback.
Cornell Upholds Experts.
Having gone that far out on the
limb, a further survey of the sit
uation by section reveals these per-
tinent facts:
East: Cornell's $50 victory over
Army confirmed the experts first
impression that it's team with
out q real weakness. The Big Red
either has faced weak opposition or
has played we'll enough to make it
look weak. Next Saturday Cornell
meets an old rival. Syracuse. which
bounced back from defeat by
Northwestern to wallop New York
University. Alb Penn also gave
an amazing performance in hand
ing Yale its worst defeat. 50-7.
Princeton, though downed 1876 by
Navy. should be strong enough this
week to prove whether the Quakers
really are good.
Fordham showed great promise in
walloping Tulane, 20-7, and Boston
College followed form in whipping
Temple. 1920; Villanova and
Georgetown beat South Carolina
and Waynesburg by impressive
scores Friday.
Big Intersectional Week.
This is "intersectional week" in
the East and as result few of the
top teams come together although
Fordham meets Pitt, which played
IT tie with Southern Methodist
Other important sectional tussles
are Yale-Dartmouth, Harvard-Army
and N. Y. U.-Holy Cross.
The intersectional list, however,
sends Boston College against thrice
beaten Idaho: Colgate, 20-3 victor
over Brown after an opening loss
to Cornell, against Duke; Columbia,
20-6 winner over Dartmouth. against
Georgia, Navy against Drake, and
on Friday, Georgetown against Vir-
ginia Tech, Manhattan against De-
troit and Temple against Michigan
State.
Playing on foreign fields. Villa
nova meets Baylor, which was
bounced from the Southwest Con-
ference picture by a 1876 loss to
Arkansas; Duquesne's eaten
team meets Mississippi, Southeast
ern Conference leader: Carnegie
Tech, beaten 21-0 by Holy Cross,
visits Notre Dame and George
Washington, 20.l4 winner over
Washington and Lee, plays Ken
lucky.
Tough Tests in Big Ten.
Big Ten: Harvard was just q
300 breeze for Michigan and Tom
my Harmon, while Northwestern,
with Bill De Correvont playing q
great game, conquered Ohio State,
6-3. Iowa grabbed a place in the
sun by beating Wisconsin, 30-12.
All three have tough conference as
signments this week. Michigan
plays Illinois. which gave the VOL
verines their first setback q year
(See FOOTBALL, Page A-16.)