Evening star., 1940-10-28
Week Tuss|es
To Blast Many
Title kopes
Navy, Northwestern,
Clemson Are Facing
Severe Tests
BY HUGH S. FULLERTON, Jr.,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

NEW YORK, Oct. 28.-Its a foot
ball tradition going way back to the
days of long-haired linemen and
turtle-neCk sweaters that November
brings the decisive games of the
season.
There's nothing to change that
idea in this weeks card, although
September and October games al
ready have eliminated all but a
dozen or two teams as contcnders
for the national crown. There's a
chance that about half the survivors
will go down this week end.
The weekly survey shapes up
something like this:
East-Cornell'S 2l-7 triumph over
Ohio State advanced the big red
team a little farther along the ma
tional title trail. With Penn elm
mated by a 40 loss to Michigan.
Cornell is the only Ivy League"
team in the national picture except
possibly Navy. The Midshipmen
looked good in beating Yale, 21-0.
but they haven't faced Cornells
schedule.
Tough Test for Navy.
Next Saturday the Ithacans figure
to beat Columbia, eliminated from
the undefeated class by a 80 last
minute defeat by Syracuse, but it
won't likely be by big margin.
Navy's encounter with Penn should
be make-orb break affair for both
teams.
Unbeaten Boston College, also
hurt by a weak schedule, plays its
strongest foe in three weeks when
it plays Manhattan, 1915 victim OF
Duquesne last Friday. Georgetown,
26-0 winner over New York Uni
versity, takes on Syracuse. Lafay-
cite. 1910 conqueror of Army, and
Penn State, which beat Temple, 1870,
face Washington and jefferson and
South Carolina, respectively.
Taking tradition into account, the
Army -Notre Dame, HarvardPrince-
ton and Yale-Brown games should
be among the weeks big attractions.
But Army this year doesn't figure to
cause trouble for mighty Notre
Dame, whose fourth straight win
was 800 over Illinois. Princeton,
which recovered to trim Rutgers,
28-13, looks better than Harvard,
loser to Dartmouth, 7-6, and even
Browns 9-6 win over Holy Cross
won't make the Yale game i'm
portant.
Intersectional Attractions.
Intersectional attractions include
Fordham, upset 60 by St. Mary's of
California, against North Carolina,
14-13 loser to Tulane; Duquesne-
Marquette, West Virginia Washing
ton and Lee, Dartmouth-Se
and, on Friday, George Washington
Wake Forest and Villanova-Kansas.
Midwest-If Minnesota is as pow
erful as it's 34-6 victory over Iowa
indicates the next two weeks should
prove it Next Saturday the Goph-
ers encounter Northwestern, which
beat Indiana, 20-7, without Bill
De Correvont, and the next week
they face Michigan, which is taking
a week off to get ready.
Other Big Ten games this week
are comparatively unimportant.
They are Iowa VS.. Purdue, 14-13
loser to Wisconsin: Ohio State VS..
Indiana and Wisconsin VS.. Illinois.
The Big Six, however, has one of
those crucial games-Oklahom
against Nebraska. They're tied for
the lead after the Cornhuskers
trimmed Missouri, 20-7, and the
Sooners beat Iowa State by the
same count. The winner figures to
go right on to the championship.
Kansas State, 300 winner over Kan
sas, meets Michigan State, which
played Santa Clara to Scoreless tie.
Major "Independent" Game.
A major independent" game
sends unbeaten Detroit, 100 winner
over Villanova Sunday, against
Tulsa, Missouri Valley Conference
leader and TO conqueror of Texas
Christian.
South-Unbeaten Tennessee and
Clemson are making the pace in
their conferences, but neither has
the race sewed up yet. Mississippi
State, which beat North Carolina
State, 26-10, and Mississippi, 21-20
upset victim of Arkansas, both are
unbeaten in the Southeastern cir
cult. L. S. u, TO victor over Van
derbilt, may be good enough to
bother the Volunteers Saturday
Mississippi encounters Vanderbilt
this week and Mississippi State plays
Southwestern of Memphis.
Clemson plays Tulane, rallying
from a bad start and winner over
North Carolina. Dukes Blue Devils,
also undefeated in the Southern
Conference, meet another South
eastern team, Georgia Tech, beaten
1877 by Auburn. Georgia, which
| tied Kentucky, TT, Friday, faces