The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-07
Tennessee, Cornell Wins
Take Gridiron Limelight
Neyland's Team May. Stand
Off All Comers; Big Red
Faces Test In Ohio State
BY BILL BONI

hard-pressed picker who has to
start forecasting football games be-
fore there's any concrete evidence
on hand, it's encouraging today to
study the results of two of yester-
days major games - Tennessee's
1870 victory over Duke, and Cor
nell's $40 humping of Colgate.
For the sake of future refer
ehce, these we're. the most notable
scores returned from the custom
airy consignment Of form-folloWing
and form-upsetting gridiron bat
ties.
In the manner as much a the
margin of their triumphs, Tennes-
see and Cornell showed they once
again are ready to stand off all
eomers-Major Bob highlands YER
satile Volunteers quite r ossibly for
the rest of the season, the big Red
at least until the Oct. 26 meeting
with Ohio State.
Tennessee, paced chiefly by Bob
Foxx, broke away from its Gus
tomary conservative style of play
to befuddle the Dukes on offense.
On defense, the Vols threw up a
barrier that kept tn Blue Devils
on the wrong side of midfield all
afternoon.
Cornell, with 239 yards gained on
passes, also got rolling in the style
to which it became accustomed in
winning the unofficial 1889 Eastern
title. If: there was any individual
star, it was Hal Mccullough, who
threw. two scoring passes and set
up another. But. as usual with the
Ithacans, credit had to bt spread
over a vast array of able backs
and linemen.
With aggressive little Franklin
and Marshall's 1921 sleeper"
over Dartmouth as the one major
upset Ito all but the Diplomats,
who had been predicting something
on that order for weeks, there
had to be other revisions of pre-
season estimates all along the line.
Northwestern, beautifully drilled
and with a truckload of fine backs.
showed itself into the Big Ten pic
ture by handing Syracuse an I'm
merciful 400 shellacking. The Or
ange looked so helpless there may
be no real line on Northwestern
until next Saturdays game with
Ohio State-but you can't 60 far
wrong with a pair Of ball-toters
like Bill DeCorrevcnt and D o n
Clawson.
The preseason Big Ten co-fa-
vorites-Ohio State, Michigan and
Minnesota-did little to hurt their
notices., though the Buckeyes did
have to call on Charley Mag for
a last-minute field goal to shade
Purdue, IVA, in the conference
opener. Michigan turned Tom Har.
mon loose for all its .nts in beat
ing Michigan State, 21-14, as Bob
Westfall gave Harmon nice sup
port. Minnesota, teaming S o h
Bill Daley with veteran George
Franck, madegit two straight ma
jor wins by a 1877 conquest Of Ne
braska.
Cornell's pre-eminent position In
the East was helped along by sev
eral developments, including the
20-19 close call Army, next on the
Cornell slate, had with Williams;
the 7-6 scare Vanderbilt threw into
Princeton; -Yale's 1914 defeat by
more resourceful Virginia; the un
impressive showings made by
Fordham, Navy, Columbia d
Harvard against West Virginia.
Cincinnati. Maine I'D Amherst,
respectively, and the $50 licking
which Louisiana State plastered on
Holy Cross.
Complaining the Southeastern
and Pacific coast races were ex'
pected comebacks which failed to
pan out. Tulane continued to make
mistakes and again found them
costly in bowling to Auburn, 20-4l,
and Southern California, for once
over-matched in manpower, was
fought to it's second straight tie
Oy OTeSOu OtdLc LII d U-V tilIlllcI
mo paradox here) in which each
side got is first downs. CALIFORNIA;
rebound SO conquest of St. Mary's
added more to the Coast muddle.
There was ample justification for
the prediction that. the Southwest
race will be wide-open. The Texas
Aggies looked their all-conquering
1899 selves in whipping Tulsa, >4l-6.
with six touchdowns by as many
men. But Texas Christian ept step
with a coo cor against Arkansas
in the first league game; Southern
Methodist mixed passes and run,
ming plays smartly to confound
North Texas Teachers, 20-7; JACK
Grains rabbit runs and booming
punts helped Texas to a 1876 score
against Indiana, and sophomores
were standouts for Rice, $50 win
ner over Centenary. l
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