Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-25
Rose BowIGame
For Minnesota
Up 70 Big Ten
Fordhom, Penn State,
'Bumu Are Considered
For Orange Bowl
BY HUGH S. FULLERTON, Jr,
Associated praSs Shorts wrftar


NEW YORK, Nov. 25.-This week
the football season gets down to
what might be called the seminal
or 'you-pick- stage. That's
the time when the main interest is
in trying to guess what teams will
bowl games January l.
Barring possible, but unlikely, up
sets this week, the leading Rose and
Sugar Bowl candidates are the five
major" teams that still are unde-
feated and untied-Boston College,
Tennessee, Texas A. and M, STAN
ford and Minnesota.
Unbeaten Lafayette got all steamed
up last night over an Orange Bowl
invitation only to hear it was just
a "feeler," and that Fordham, Penn
State, Boston College and other
Eastern teams are under considera-
ton, with Alabama and Mississippi
State among the possible Southern
entries.
Mississippi State is one of the tied
but unbeaten teams. The other,
Texas Tech, and undefeated-untied
| Hardin Simmons also may be in
/ line for bowl bid.
Minnesota Likely in Line.
The prospects for a Big Ten
Pacific Coast meeting between STAN
ford and Minnesota are looking
brighter, while Tennessee VS.. Boston
College loom as the most likely
Sugar Bowl lineup.
Minnesota finished its Western
Conference sweep by whipping Wis
consin, 22-13, after spotting the
Badgers the first Is points. The
Gophers' chances of going to Pasa-
dena depend upon favorable action
by the conference faculty members
at their meeting December CT.
While sentiment seems to be swing
ing in favor of such a game, that
may be too late. Stanford, idle last
week, winds up Saturday against its
ancient rival, California, and the
bowl invitation usually comes right
after the final game.
Tennessee, victorious over Ken
lucky, $50, still has to dispose Of
Vanderbilt next Saturday, and Bos-
ton College, which walloped one
strong Southeastern Conference
team, Auburn, 1877, still has to get
past Holy Cross. Since both their
rivals have been beaten frequently,
these assignments don't look espe-
cially hard for the Volunteers and
the Eagles.
| Texas Ags Face Texas.
The Texas Aggies also have to go
through the formality of clinching
their second straight Southwest
Conference championship and COM
pleting an unbeaten season when
they meet Texas Thursday. They
also were idle last week.
Lafayette finished its unbeaten
season by beating Lehigh, $50;
Hardin-Simmons, which plays little
Howard Payne Friday night, beat
San Francisco University, 28-l8;
Mississippi State helped clear
Tennessee's path to the South
eastern Conference title by beating
Mississippi, 1870, to put the Rebels
out of the running. Texas Tech
had a week off in preparation for
Saturdays clash with New Mexico
| 1912, conqueror of Arizona.
Surveying the status of other
teams by sections, the situation Is
/ about this:
East-After Boston College Holy
Cross, the colorful, tradition-laden
Army-Navy game at Philadelphia Is
| this weeks only game of national
interest with Fordham-New York
University and Duquesne- Carnegie
as added attractions.
Penn Leads ivy" Group.
Once-beaten Fordham and Du-
| quesne both are candidates for
second ranking in the section. The
Dukes moved up by beating VIII
lanova, 14-0, last week while Pitts
burgh knocked Penn State down
out of the unbeaten-tied class with
20-7 trouncing.
Georgetown, beaten only by Bos-
ton College, didn't gain much pres
tige by defeating George Washing
ton, 80.
The top honors in the informal
ivy League" go to Pennsylvania,
| 1920, conqueror of Cornell in the
most surprising as well as the most
exciting game last week. Harvard
furnished another surprise in this
group by the decisiveness of its,
$50, victory over Yale.
Army took a 26-19 licking from
Princeton while preparing for the
| Navy game while Holy Cross tuned
up for Boston College by beating
Manhattan, 1925. Columbia. 2o-17.
winner over Colgate, and Brown.
which lost to Dartmouth, 20-6 meet
in a second" Thanksgiving Day
contest.
Observation-Disclosures, with a 400
rout of its old rival, Ohio State
and Northwestern, 200 winner over
(See FOOTBALL, Page A-I6)