Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-23
Many Old Feuds
Revived Today
In Big Games
Yale, Harvard Stoge
59th Fuss; Crowns at
Stake in South
BY HUGH 8. FULLERTON, Jr.,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

NEW YORK, Nov. 23.-The foot
ball season isn't over yet by several
dozen games, but today, for the first
time, it gets down to the stage
where the fans can concentrate on
q few all-important contests and not
worry about anything that might be
going on behind their backs.
The Big Ten season ends with
Minnesota, already crowned cham
pion, seeking to complete a perfect
season against Wisconsin. Except
for next weeks classic Army Navy
tilt and few other big ones, Eastern
football winds up its activities; the
South's major conference titles
should be decided and probably those
In few other sectors.
Oddly enough, only two really de-
cisive games are on today's list and
they're not ones to settle the ques-
ton of national supremacy. They
are Penn-Cornell at Philadelphia
and Mississippi State-Mississippi at
State College.
Settles ivy League" Race.
The first will settle the mythical
championship of the "Ivy League II
but it won't decide the equally
mythical Eastern championship I'M
less something happens to Boston
College, which plays Auburn.
Cornell looked by far the strong
est team in the East until Dart
mouth proved the Big Red team
could be beaten-even though 1t took
a couple of days of doubt before
the final score was agreed upon.
Penn, beaten only by Michigan, still
appears to be second best in the
ivy" group and some $1,000 fans are
looking for a classic battle between
these two.
Mississippi. beaten only by Ark
anSas, and Mississippi State, I'M
beaten. but tied by Auburn, both
have chances to figure in the South
eastern Conference title race. Ole
Miss, if victorious, can claim part
interest, even If unbeaten and united
Tennessee should follow form and
whip Kentucky at Knoxville. States
only chance lies in an upset by the
Wildcats, which doesn't appear en-
tirely impossible.
Big Traditional Games.
The backgrounds that make to-
days other big games important are
different, but none the less COM
polling.
At the top comes the seth Yale
Harvard fuss. That's been a major
game since grandpa's time and it's
not going to stop Just because both
teams have had miserable seasons
this year.
Other Eastern games include the
74th Lafayette-Lehigh meeting
which finds Lafayette unbeaten ano
united: Columbia Colgate, Brown
Dartmouth, Georgetown George
Washington, Holy Cross-Manhattan
tied but unbeaten Penn State against
Pittsburgh and Villanova- Duquesne
While Minnesota closes its Big Ter
campaign against Wisconsin, the
other Conference teams take on fav-
ored rivals. Michigan plays Ohio
State, Iowa meets Illinois, Purdue
tackles Indiana and Northwestern
encounters Notre Dame.
Nebraska can clinch at least q
tie for the Big Six crown by whip
ping weak Iowa State while its rival
Oklahoma, marks time with an in
tersectional tilt with Temple.
Valley Title at Stake.
Tulsa and the Oklahoma Aggie:
fight it out for the Missouri Valley
title. Michigan State-West Vir.
ginia and Detroit-Marquette helE
round out the Midwest program.
In tn Southern Conference Glenn
son has only to beat Furman, as ex.
pected, to win the title. Duke, which
has a chance to tie If the Tigers
should lose, meets North Carolins
State. Also on the Southern Slate
are Virginia-North Carolina, Ala
bama-Vanderbilt and Florida-G
gia Tech.
With the Texas Aggies, Southwest
Conference leaders, and Stanford's
near champs of the Pacific Coast
circuit both idle, the best games in
those sectors are Baylor-Southerr
Methodist, Rice Christian
unbeaten Hardin VS.. Sar
Francisco, U. c. L. A.-Washington
Gonzaga Washington State and to-
morrow's Santa Clara -Loyola tilt
Colorado State VS.. Brigham Young
winds UP Conference activities in the
Big Seven.