Evening star., 1940-11-09
Big Ten, Coast,
Southwestern
Ti|tsCruciaI
Program Is Crowded
With Meetings Of
Traditional Foes
BY HUGH S. FULLERTON, Jr,
Associated Press Sports Writer

NEW YORK, Nov. 9-Minnesota
and Michigan aimed at the West
ern Conference championship and
at possible recognition as the Ma
tion's No. l football team today.
Stanford aimed at the Pacific Coast
Conference title and the Rose Bowl.
Texas A and M. sought to become
the first team to win the Southwest
Conference crown two years in sue
cession and Cornell attempted to
make a showing against weak Yale
that would obliterate any other pre-
tenders to the Eastern football
throne.
Such objectives made four games
the outstanding events on a ma
tional program that was loaded
with ordinary big" games.
Perhaps the most important was
that meeting between the two un-
beaten major powers of the Mid
west. The big question was whether
Minnesota could stop Michigan's
Tom Harmon as it had on two pre-
vious occasions. But whether or
not Tommy was stopped, 1t almost
was cinch that the winner would
be in line for the title and even more
prestige than ordinarily goes with
sectional cha upionship.
Cornell After Big Score.
Stanford met Washington. the
Pacific Coasts leading Northern"
team, unbeaten in conference play,
loser only to Minnesota and rested
by week away from competition.
The possibility of rain or q wet
field provided an additional compli-
cation here and in the Southwest's
decisive game between the Texas
Aggies and Southern Methodist, two
great passing teams. Both Mustangs
and Aggies were undefeated, al
though S. M. U. had a tie on its
record.
Cornell, generally recognized as
the East's best team, still has to dis
pose of strong challenge from
Pennsylvania and It was considered
that one step in that direction would
be TO improve or Penn's 5o-7 score
against Yale.
Some of the days other important
games, not quite up to the standard
of these four, included:
EaSt-Navy VS.. unbeaten Notre
Dame, Columbia Wisconsin, Ford
hame-Purdue, Holy Cross -Missis-
Sippi, Pennsylvania Harvard,
Princeton Dartmouth, Pittsburgh
Carnegie, Syracuse-Penn State,
| T m Pile Villanova, Georgetown
Maryland and Army-Brown.
Ancient tradition or intersectional
color lent interest to most of these.
Other Important Games.
Midwest-Northwestern, still
Western Conference title contender,
especially if Michigan should beat
| Minnesota, VS.. Illinois; Nebraska,
the Big Six leader VS.. Iowa, Indiana
Michigan State, Kansas Oklahoma,
Iowa State-Drake, Detroit-Texas
Christian. Washington (St. Louis)-
Virginia Military.
! Southwest-Texas-B Baylor, Arkan-
SaS-Rice, Tulsa Catholic U.
South-Alabama Tulane, Florida
Georgia, Kentucky Georgia Tech
and Louisiana State-Mississippi
State in the Southeastern Confer
ence; Duke-Davidson, Furman-Vir-
ginia Tech, Richmond North Caro-
lima and others in the Southern
Conference; an inter-circuit meeting
between Auburn and Clemson, and
the intersectional South Carolina
Kansas State game.
Rocky Mountain Big Seven
Wyoming Utah, Colorado Missouri.
Brigham Young Denver and Colo
RADIO State-Utah State.
Pacific Coast-Southern Califor-
mia. always colorful battle; Ore
gon-U. C. L. A. and Oregon State
Washington State.