Evening star., 1941-09-29
Minnesota, Stanford
Again in Fair Way
To Win Crowns
Navy, Duke, Notre Dame,
Tulane, Texas Show
Eorly Strength
By HERB BARKER,
Associated Press Sports Writer

NEW YORK, Sept 29.-Put down
Minnesota and Stanford in your
football book once more as potential
champions and, even at this early
date, figure on keeping close watch
on Tulane, Duke. Texas, Navy,
Georgetown and Notre Dame And
don't waste any tears on Harmon
less Michigan.
Defeat for some of these may be
but the finger points to them on
the basis of their exploits on the
first big program Of the new season.
Dozens of other major teams will
make their 194l bows this week
and a radical revision of the list
probably will be in order
Faced with the sternest test Of all
are Wallace Wade's Duke Blue
Devils Victorious over Wake For
est, 43-14, the Blue Devils now
must face Tennessee at Durham in
the game that may decide whether
or not Duke is to finish with a
perfect slate.
Minnesota, rated No. team in
the country last year, started off
new campaign last week by whip
ping Washington's HuskieS, Pacific
Coast power, 1916, as Bruce Smith
scored both Gopher touchdowns
and generally comported himself
like the all-America he is touted to
be. Minnesota will be idle this week,
but Stanford, which just got past
tough Oregon. 1915. thanks mainly
to All-America Quarterback frankie
Albert, will play U. c. L. AS Bruins.
q. G. L. A, a tough luck team
year ago, beat Washington State,
T-6, in its opener.
Tulane Is Tremendous.
Tulane was tremendous in an
easy 2l-7 conquest of Boston Col
lege, Sugar Bowl champion and an
unbeaten, united array in 1910.
Next opponent for Tulane is All
burn.
Notre Dame. uncovering a fine
passer in Angelo Bertelli during last
weeks 38-7 rout Of Arizona, tackles
sitter opposition in Indiana this
week, even though the Hoosiers
dropped last-minute 14-7 decision
to Detroit. Michigans Wolverines,
with Sophomore Tom Kuzma taking
up where his Gary, Ind., fellow
townsman, Tommy Harmon, left off,
tackles Iowa after handing Michigan
State a neat 1877 trouncing. Iowa
warmed up with Drake, 25-8.
Dana Bibles Texas Longhorns,
who brushed aside Colorado. 34-6,
may find Louisiana States Tigers
harder to digest, although the
Tigers were beaten by Johnny
Grigas and Holy Cross, 1918.
Georgetown, conqueror Of highly
touted Mississippi, 1876, should
have no worries with Virginia Tech,
trounced by Kentucky, 37-14. Navy,
which lived up to its advance notices
in a $40 rout of William and Mary,
faces West Virginia, an Eastern
dark horse, in its next venture.
Intersectional games are stressed
heavily this week with the South
and Western Conference furnishing
most of the invaders. Paul Browns
Ohio State Buckeyes, who outplaved
Missouri, 1877, make the long trek
to Los Angeles to tangle with South
ern California, 1877 victor over
Organ State. Purdue, tripped by
Vanderbilt, 80, on Jack jenkins
first-period field goal, moves East
ward to play Pitt. Fordham, virtual
" certain to be a championship
factor in the East, makes its first
start against Southern Methodist.
South Against North.
Virginia Military, George Wash
ington and Citadel of the Southern
Conference all play Northern rivals.
Y. M. l., badly beaten by Clemson
faces Temple, easy 31-9 victor over
Kansas; George Washington plays
Manhattan and Citadel furnishes
Arny's opening opposition. Virginia,
former Southern Conference mem
ber, which trounced Lafayette last
week, $50, will seek to make it two
in row over Yale. Duquesne and
Tulsa, Missouri and Colorado, Viii
lanova and Centre and Denver and
Baylor complete the intersectional
pairings.
High lights of the weeks program
otherwise:
East-Penn and Harvard collide at
Philadelphia in the opening Ivy
League game, while Cornell plays
Syracuse and Columbia meets
Brown. Princeton and Dartmouth
play members of the Little Three"
the Tigers battling Williams, while
Dartmouth engages Amherst, Col
gate, with fine team in the making,
plays Penn State at Buffalo.
est-NorthWeStern makes its
debut against Kansas State, held to
a scoreless tie by Fort Hays Teach
ers. Wisconsin opens against Mar
quette and Illinois against Miami of
Ohio. Big Six competition starts at
Ames, where iowa State must face
Nebraska's champion Huskers.
Kansas plays Washington Univer-
sity of st. Louis.
Open Southwest Conference Play.
SouthWest-ArKansaS and Texas
Christian meet in the first confer
ence game as Rice and Texas A.
and M. face warm-up opponents in
Sam Houston and Texas A. and l.,
respectively.
South-Alabama's first Southeast
ern Conference foe is Mississippi
State. which barely got past Florida,
60, last week. Kentucky and
Georgia meet rivals from the South
ern Conference. Georgia has a
tough foe to beat in South Carolina,
which upset North Carolina, 1877.
Kentucky has no worries with
Washington and Lee.
Three Southern Conference games
are booked. Clemson plays North
Carolina State, held to a 6-6 draw
by Davidson. North Carolina meets
Davidson and Furman plays Wake
Forest.
Far West California which