The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-19
ACCIES MOVE into
SECOND POSITION
Cornell Falls From Second 10
Fifth, While Stanford
Moves Up To Third
BY BILL BONI

NEW YORK, Nov. 18-R-Even
though most of the votes were cast
before Cornell officially conceded
victory to Dartmouth, the Big Red
team dropped from second place
to fifth today in the sixth weekly
Associated Press football ranking
poll of the season.
Minnesota, winning out over Tex
as A. and M, the 1899 champion,
in a close. race, finished first for
the second straight week, the Ag-
gies meanwhile moving into the
runnerup spot vacated by Cornell
and Stanford advancing from
fourth place to third.
Comparable to the Cornell slump
was the rise in Boston college
stock. The Eagles, 1918 winners
over Georgetown and wreckers of
a Hoya unbeaten streak that had
gone % games, benefited by that
near-epic victory to the extent of
a boost from eighth place to fourth.
Only six teams received first
place votes from the 1863 experts
throughout the country. Minneso-
ia, polling So for first and 66 for
second, was ranked no worse than
fourth by anyone and amassed
1,544 points. The Aggies, with SO
firsts, 81 seconds and nothing
worse than fifth, got 1,485 points;
Stanford, with the bulk of its sup
port in Sc third-place nominations,
was named first by "a and got L.
331 points, while B. c., with IL,
Cornell, with 6, and Tennessee
with 3 we're the others to be rank
ed first.
Out Of the top ten went Notre
Dame, unimpressive winner over
Army and Navy and 10 victim
Saturday of Iowa. In place of the
Irish came Nebraska, beaten only
by Minnesota and judged strong
enough to get eighth place. Ten
nessee went down from fifth to
sixth and Michigan from sixth to
seventh, while Georgetown and
Northwestern remained ninth and
tenth.
Though Saturdays meeting be-
tween Cornell and Penn has lost
some of its lustre through the
termination of the Big Reds string
of 10 games without a loss, it has
enormous possibilities, with Cor
|nelPs seniors out to make their
last game a winning one and Penn,
ranked 18th this week, equally Gag
err to prove Dartmouth's defeat of
the Ithacans was no f1uke.
Minnesota, against Wisconsin,
will close out its campaign Sat-
urday the Aggies, against Texas,
will be closing out their 1910 cam
paign on Nov. %. Stanford will
take q week off before it's annual
climax game with California Nov.
80.
AS for the others, B. c., will
continue shooting for a post-season
bowl bid against Auburn; Tenn
essee, after two softer ones, will
play Kentucky; Michigan will at
tempt to sew up second place in
the Western conference against
Ohio State; Nebraska, with the
Big Six title already in the bag,
should take it even safer against
Iowa State; Georgetown will finish
off its schedule against neighbour
ing George Washington, and North
western will play it's finale against
Notre Dame.
The standings (points figured on
1~O-9-8-7-6, ETC., basis, first-place
votes in parentheses).
l. Minnesota ........ (68) 1,544
2. Texas A & M. go. (59) 1,485
3. Stanford .......... (2) 1881
4. Boston college go. q2) 1,O43.5
5. Cornell ......... { g. 1886
6. Tennessee ........ - 851
Z. Michigan ..... 821
8. Nebraska ....... 1923
9. Georgetown ..... 318.5
IN Neutrality-suspicious. ,oe