Evening star., 1940-10-26
Pride.Wounded
Buckeyes Face
No. | Rankers
Wolverines, Quokers
Pit Leading Scorers;
Title Races Warm
BY HUGH S. FULLERTON, Jr.,
Associated Press Sports Writer,

ny mum .. FOLLEhloN, Jf.,
Associated Press Sports Writer.
NEW YORK, Oct. 26.-The foot
ball fan with an unlimited budget
and unlimited time-if there is
such person-probably would have
quite task today trying to decide
whether to see Cornell-Ohio State,
Michigan-Pennsylvania or STAN
ford-Southern California games.
The common variety of cash Gus
toner, who has to take the best
offering nearby, probably can do
just as well for himself.
Those three games undoubtedly
figure to be the most important of
the day. First, there's Cornell, con-
sidered the Nations No. team,
facing the Buckeyes, who are try
ing to wipe out the memory of an
upset beating by the big Red last
year as we'll as two unexpected de-
featS this season. At Ann Arbor
it's the duel between two champion
scorers. Michigan's Tommy Harmon
and Penn's Frank Reagan. sup
ported by a pair of fine teams. On
the West Coast it's Clark Shaugh-
nessy's dazzling playmakers, who
have tricked their way into the con-
ference lead, against Southern Cali
fornia's 1899 champions. who seem
to be coming back from a bad
start.
Exciting Games Numerous.
But, assuming you're not one Of
the 10000 or so fans who have the
privilege of watching those three
games, what else is on the program?
The East has unbeaten Fordham
against ST. Mary's of California,
always a hard-fought and colorful
affair. Princeton-Rutge the 37th
game between the rivals who started
the whole business of intercollegiate
football back in 1869: Georgetown,
unbeaten in 20 straight games. seek
ing to make it 81 against N. Y U..
and such interesting struggles of no
particular Importance in the ma
tlonal championship picture as
Columbia Syracuse, Temple Penn
State. Army-Lafayette. Yale-Navy,
Harvard-Dartmouth and Colgate
Mississippi College.
The big Midwestern program in
CludeS Northwestern Indiana, Min
nesota-Iowa and Purdue Wisconsin.
in the Big Ten title contest; Illinois
stand against mighty Notre Dame;
Nebra ska Missouri, which may de-
eide the Big Six title, and Oklahoma
Iowa State and Kansas-Kansas State
in the same league, and Michigan
State-Santa Clara and Marquette
Texas Tech in the intersectional line.
Down South, the title contenders
in two major circuits play strong
but assorted competition. Dukes
Blue Devils. seeking to keep pace
with Clemson in the Southern Con-
ference. encounter a troublesome
Wake Forest outfit with Furman-
Davidson. Richmond-V. M. l. and
Virginia Tech-W Washington and Lee
as supporting fixtures. Tennessee,
probably the strongest Southeastern
Conference team, plays Florida.
while Mississippi tackles Arkansas
of the Southwest Conference. Also
on the card are Georgia Tech
Auburn, Louisiana State-Vanderbilt
and the inter-circuit North Carolina
Tulane and North Carolina State
Mississippi State games.
Kentucky and George Tie.
Texas and the Texas Aggies,
Southwest Conference title contend
ers. play Rice and Baylor, respec-
lively while Texas Christian visits
Tulsa, leader in the Missouri Valley
Loop. Colorado, heading for the
Rocky Mountain Big Seven crown,
plays Wyoming, while the Buffaloes
main rival, Denver. encounters Utah.
Trailing only the Stanford-U. S.
C. game in interest in the Pacific
Coast are the Washington-Califor-
MIA, Washington State-Oregon and
U. C. L. A.-Oregon State tussles.
Heading a rather light Friday
program, Kentucky and Georgia
battled to a TT Southeastern Con-
ference tie, and Sewanee. member
of the same loop, took 20-6 beat
ing from Chattanooga. Duquesne,
one of the East's better teams, ral-
lied to beat Manhattan, 1915, and
st. Louis U. turned back Drake, 21-0,
in the Missouri Valley Conference.