The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-21
NO GRID UPSETS
DURING WEEK END
Top-Heavy Scores Mark Vic
tories OF Leaders In Every
Section Of Country
BY Bill BONI

more attractive. because it is moro
open and produces bigger scores.
Y esterday the collegians
launched a mass rebuttal the Ike
of which never has been seen. An
even dozen of the nations top
ranking powers came through to
victory by scoring a minimum Of
three touchdowns each and WIN
ming by a minimum margin of two
On an afternoon remarkable for
the lack of a single major upset,
the scoring parade ranged all the
way from the East. where Boston
college swamped Idaho, 600,
through the Midwest, where Notre
Dame crushed Carnegie Tech, ol-0.
to the Pacific coast, where Stan.
ford trampled Washington State,
26-14. On the way it dipped down
into the deep South for Tennessee 5
Pip conquest of Alabama and into
the Southwest for Texas A. and
MS 21-7 decision over Texas
Christian.
Nor were the most one-sided win
ners necessarily out to make it
look bad. Notre Danes Elmer
Layden used 81 men, including
several not even good enough to
have been assigned numbers, while
Boston colleges Frank Leahy, Carl
Snavely of Cornell, which trimmed
Syracuse, 1876, and Nebraska's Biff
Jones, whose Huskers routed Kar-
sas, 53-2, also cleared the bench Of
all available substitutes. Their
clubs simply got rolling, and there
was nothing that could stop them.
Thus it was a day on which
leadership claims yer 1e-ernpaa-
sized rather than readjusted.
Notre Dame, showing better bal
ance than any team Layden has
had, staked out its Claim to ma
tional ranking by a wah3ping I'm
expected only in the size of the
final score. The Irish now should
have clear sailing until the No: tn
western game Nov. %.
The Wildcats meanwhile took
over first place in the Western con-
ference by making it two straight
Big Nine" triumphs in beating
Wisconsin, PIT, will Bill de Core
wont passing to n touchdown and
turning the Badger end for so
yards and another. Michigan,
switching the heavy duty from
Tommy Harmon to Bob Westfall,
used the fullback's 152 yards to
good advantage in crushing ILL
nois, $50, while Minnesota, with
out throwing a pass all day, broke
Bruce Smith loose for tn two
touchdowns that beat OHIO State,
1877, and virtually closed the door
on the defending champs.
Nebraska's Big Six title stock
doomed tremendously in the rout
of Kansas, gained with star back
Herman Rohrig on the bench. Mis-
souri,, with Harry Ice averaging u
yards per try and going for three
t%allies, trimmed Iowa State. 30.14,
to hold the challenging spot.
Eastern attention this week will
be conferred on Ann Arbor, where
Penn will play Michigan and on
Ithaca, N. Y, where Ohio State
will meet Cornell. OFF yesterdays
results the fur is going to fly.
Penn, getting set for All-Ameri-
can Harmon, laid the ground. work
for a great man-to-man duel. The
red and blues Francis Xavier
Reagan, running for 200 yards and
five touchdowns, passing for anoth-
err and refusing a substitute until
he had attended to that fifth tally,
was a one-man gang in Penn's
dizzy 1923 conquest of Princeton.
Cornell meanwhile was putting to-
gether 534 yards of running ard
passing gains against Syracuse,
and appears well-primed to make
it two straight over Ohio State.
With Penn and Cornell dominat-
ing the Ivy league, Boston college
and Fordham rule tn poison
ivy'' circuit. B. c. rolled to nine
touchdowns against Idaho. The
Rams, boasting possibly the best
backield in their history, turned
three second-period breaks into as
many touchdowns to trim Pitt, a.
IL, after Jimmy Blumenstock's 49,
yard romp had tied the score in
the first quarter.
History repeated for Tennessee.
The same Johnny Butler who
stepped in for George Cafego to
start the Vols moving against Ala
bama a year ago filled in for Bob
Foxx this time. He ran 60 yards,
then passed II for e1e score, re-
turned a punt 40 yards for another,
and thus put the Southeastern con-
ference leaders in front to stay.
In the Southwest the Texas Ag-
gies raced to three touchdowns in
seven minutes against T. c. IT,
with blocking back Jim Thomson
stepping out of comparative OBJ
security to snag two scoring aerials.
For Stanford, still on top in the
Coast conference, it was four
touchdowns by as many backs that
whipped Washington State. Wash
ington meanwhile stayed close on
the Indians heels with 4 1910 whip
ping of Oregon State.
Not too far behind these pace
settlers are
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