Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-07
Cornell Again Strong
In Competition for
Eastern Honors
Games This Week Figure
To Give Strong Line
On Title Aspironts
BY HUGH S. FULLERTON. JR.,

basis of performances rather than
predictions.
There's no guarantee, of course
that the teams that appear the best
now even will be in the picture at
the end Of the season. Still top
ranking in the various sections, on
present performances, must be
awarded to Cornell, Georgetown
Boston College and possibly Penn
svlvania in the East; Tennessee
Kentucky, Wake Forest and Glenn
son in the South; Michigan, Ohio
State and several of their challeng-
ers in the Middle West; Texas
Texas Christian and Texas Tech in
the Southwest and Stanford and
Santa Clara on the Pacific Coast.
Right back of these-or perhaps
even with them-are plenty of other
challengers and there's a schedule
for the coming week end that may
change the lineup entirely. This
is especially true in the Big Ten
where nearly every team looks
strong and in the Southwest and
Southeastern Conference. The Big
Six and Big Seven circuits haven
produced a standout yet.
Georgetown Has Breather.
Right now the set-up, by sections,
appears something like this:
East: Cornell. picking up where
1t left off last year, walloped Col
gates looking outfit, $40, last
Saturday. The Big Red teams
power was checked but it uncovered
a great new passing game that
makes it seem a cinch to retain its
unofficial Eastern title. Cornell
plays Army at West Point this week,
but the Cadets. who barely beat
Williams, 20-l9, don't appear
troublesome.
Georgetown also carried over from
last year by beating Temple 40,
Friday. and now goes back into the
"breather" class with Waynesburg
while Temples Owls face Boston
College, idle last Saturday
Penn. after opening with a 5l-O
triumph over Maryland, takes on
Yale. beaten. 1914. by Virginia.
Last weeks upsetS have taken
some of the edge off this week S
program. Dartmouth. conquered by
little Franklin and Marshall, 1871,
meets Columbia. $50 winner over
Maine. New York University, up
set, Sc, by Lafayette, plays SYRIA
cuse. 400 victim of Northwestern,
and Colgate meets Brown, an unln-
pressive winner. Princeton and
Navy come together after pair
of close calls.
IntersectionaI Games Headline.
Intersectional games furnish most
of the meat with Michigans
great team. which escaped a re-
bound from the California game
by beating Michigan State, 21-l4,
facing Harvard; Pitt, which came
back to beat Missouri, 1913, tackles
Southern Methodist. rated one of
the Southwest Conference powers;
Fordham, POT winner over West
Virginia. meets Tulane, which lost
its second game to Auburn, 20-l4.
Others are Villanova-F Florida, Du-
cuesne South Carolina. George
Washington Wa shington and Lee
and Franklin and Msrshall-Rich-
mond.
Big Ten.-The nlne-team Western
Conference maintained its excellent
record when only Indiana lost to
outside opposition and underdog
Purdue sprang a big surprise by
holding Ohio State to 1714 score
in the first conference game. This
week the Buckeyes encounter North
western. which looked very good
against Syracuse. while Purdue goes
outside the loop to play Michigan
State. Indiana, beaten by Texas,
1876, plays Nebraska. which lost to
Minnesota. 1877; Iowa. 460 winner
over South Dakota. plays Wiscon-
sin. which beat Marquette by sur
prising 1913 count Illinois, after
q 31-0 tuneup against Bradley, takes
on Southern California, whose two
ties have taken the edge of its
prospects in the Coast Conference
Big Six: Iowa State leads the loop
now on a TO victory over Kansas
while the other teams were turning
in dismal performances against non
conference opposition. This week
Iowa State plays Marquette; Kansas
plays Drake. one of the Missouri
Valley Conference leaders; Okla
homa. which barely pulled out a
1927 decision over Oklahoma Aggies
visits Texas at Austin and Kansas
State, nosed out, 7-6. by Colorado
meets Missouri.
Irish Meet Georgia Tech.
Notre Dame, which resumed its
career as the Mid-Western in
dependent" leader by whipping the
College of the Pacific, ISL, takes or
speedy Georgia Tech.
Southwest: Texas Christian. after
assuming the conference lead with
a 900 win over Arkansas. goes away
to play North Carolina while the
Razorbacks try again against heavy
Baylor, 14-7 winner over Denver
The Texas Ageies. title candidates
turned up with a Ais win over
Tulsa, Tor Journey west " pay
U. C. L. A., which lost its SECOND
e-6 game to Santa Clara Friday
S. M. U. and Rice turned in fairly
easy victories over North Texas ano
Centenary, respectively. Texas Tech
1910 victor over Loyola Of Los
Angeles. encounters Montana next
South: Tennessee's 14-0 triumph
over Duke in what was billed as last
Saturdays biggest game, but which
didn't quite come up to expectations
put the Vols temporarily at the tor
of the Southeastern circuit and
this weeks Chattanooga game CAM
hurt them much. Meanwhile Ken.
lucky, an impressive three-time
winner, plays Vanderbilt. which per-
formed we'll in losing 7-6 decision
to Princeton. Mississippi State
Auburn and Mississippi-G Georgia
should help straighten out the cur.
rent leaders who have won a con-
ference game apiece. Louisiana
State. $50 winner over Holy Cross
takes on Rice in another ma Tor in