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"ivy league" champion; Duquesne
and Penn State.
Vols Really Great.
In last Saturdays windup Ford
! ham swamped its old rival, New
York University, $50, and Duquesne
conquered its Pittsburgh rival, Car
negie Tech, 14-7. The days biggest
game, though the seasons records
don't support that contention, saw
Navy whip Army, 14-0, in contest
that wasn't any more interesting to
the 100000 fans than the parades
which preceded it.
South-Tennessee when it beat
Vanderbilt 900, marked up string
of 80 consecutive regular-season vic
tories, which stamps the Volunteers
as great team even though there
may have been a few more soft spots
in their schedules than were neces-
sary. Mississippi State qualified for
an invitation to the Orange Bowl
with a 1870 triumph over Alabama.
In other Southeastern Conference
games, Auburn handed Florida a
mild surprise along with a 20-7
beating; Georgia turned back
Georgia Tech, 21-19, and Louisiana
State beat Tulane, 40.
Nebraska Goes to Rose Bowl.
Duke, while it finished second to
Clemson in the Southern Conference
standing, proved its right to about
equal ranking when it conquered
Pittsburgh, 1871, in a final intersec-
tional scrap. Clemson and Duke
didn't meet this season. Other
windup games saw Davidson beat
The Citadel, 2o-6, in the cellar
championship" contest, and Mary
land and Washington and Lee play
a TT tie.
Still remaining on the Southern
card are Miami-Georgia next Fri
day, Auburn Villanova, Florida
Texas and South Carolina The Cit
adel Saturday, and Geargia Tech
California December %.
Midwest-With the Western Con-
ference race ended, final week in
terest centered around Nebraska's
clinching the Big Six title and the
coveted Rose Bowl bid with a 800
victory over Kansas State. The
Cornhuskers have lost out only four
years since the conference was
| formed in 1923.
With Tulsa already holding the
Missouri Valley Conference title, st.
Louis University ended the cam
paign with a 80 victory over Wash
ington University.
Southwest Race Unsettled.
Southwest - Southern Methodist
and Rice met fairly strong oppoSi-
ton, but kept in line for a title shot
next Saturday. S. M. U. trimmed
Texas Christian, 1910, and Rice
beat off Baylor, 21-l2, after trailing
at the half. AS a result conference
faculty members who had planned
to vote today on a representative for
the Cottol Bowl game. delayed the
ballot until after next Saturdays
! game.
/ Among the Southwestern indie
pendents, Hardin Simmons re-
NAMED in the unbeaten-untied
ranks by whipping Howard Payne,
27-7, but Texas Tech, once tied, suf-
fered its first defeat at the hands of
New Mexico, 1914. Arizona out
scored Marquette, 17-14, in an inter-
| sectional tussle.
Pacific Coast-Quite according to
predictions, Stanford had its closest
call of the year against California,
winning out, 1877 Meanwhile,
| Southern California, which plays
Notre Dame next Saturday, whipped
the hapless U, C. L. A. team, 2S-12;
Washington clinched second place in
the conference standing by scoring
81 points in the last quarter to beat
Washington State, 1873; Oregon de-
feated Oregon State, 900, and Santa
Clara whipped Oklahoma. 1913. The
University of San Francisco yeSter-
day scored 21-0 over Loyola of L. A