The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-27
OHIO STATE LOSES
LEAD IN BIG ten
North Carolina Adds to Mar
gin of Leadership in the
Southern Conference
Bv HUGH S. FULLERTON, JR.

basketball ~ScheduleS go, oIiIy
few games were played last Weei
and they didn't go very Tar 70
ward settling the various sec'lona
and conference races.
Highlights were the ousting o.
Ohio State from the Big Ten lead
ership and the emergence OF Au-
burn in the Southeasterc confer
ence. Utah in the Big Seven anc
WASHINGTON in the northern divi'
sion of the Pacific Coast Confer
ence as undisputed leaders Of their
groups.
Dartmouth, Eastern league lead
er, and Arkansas in the Southwest
held their places without action;
North Cardinals defending cham
pions of the Southern conference
added to to their margin OF leader
ship although they took a 1924
drubbing from Navy in an outside
game Saturday. and Stanford i'm
proved its position in the southern
half Of the coast loop. Kansas and
Oklahoma continued their tie for
the Big Six lead as Kansas State
dropped out and there were no
conference games in the Missouri
Valley circuit.
Leading independent teams
SO found that the profs were pro-
viding more opposition than other
teams during the mid-winter ex-
animation period. In the East
Seton Hall. Rhode Island State,
Baltimore and Westminster Pa.)
remained undefeated. Long Island,
Viuanova. Georgetown, Washing
ton and Jefferson. New York uni
versity, Loyola CBaltimore), Du-
Quesne, Penn State and George
Washington preserved their good
ratings. In the midwest Toledo,
with twelve straight victories, re-
NAMED the only unbeaten major
team with Notre Dame, De Paul
Of Chicago, Detroit and little
Maryville Mo.) Teachers also
holding the limelight.
Business remains dull during the
coming week with Saturday bring
ing the first sign of a revival. A
couple of doubleheaders are listed
in the East, however, with the
high . scoring Rhode Island State
team and Butler from the Mid
west playing St. Francis and Long
Island respectively, at New York
Wednesday, and st. Joseph at Phil
adelphia Friday.
The current status Of the sec
tic al races looks romething like
this:
East-With Dartmouth idle, Cor
nell strengthened its hold on sec
ond place in the Eastern league
by whipping Yale 1927 after the
Ellis had dropped a midweek game
to Pennsylvania, 4O-35. George
town hung up its tenth successive
victory Wednesday, 1918 against
Blue Ridge 63-31 for its ninth
straight.
Big Ten-Wisconsin, making a
mighty comeback, whipped Ohio
State 46-31 Saturday to drop the
Bucks from first place into a tie
with Illinois for third. Idle Indiana
went into the lead while Wisconsin
took second. The Badgers previ-
ously had routed Chicago. Michi-
gan after whipping Minnesota, lost
to Northwestern, 1874. 1t was the
first conference victory for the
Wildcats, who had lost to Iowa
Monday.
Big Six-Kansas clouted Kansas
State 46-41 and Oklahoma routed
Missouri 1892 to keep their race
tied. Nebraska meanwhile bowl
over Missouri and Iowa State,
whose decline was the big sur
prise of the circuit, to take third
place.
Southern conference.-the confer
ence competition, North Carolina
stretched its unbeaten string to
five with victories over North Car
DINA State and Maryland. South
Carolina, with three victories, and
Richmond with two, also are un-
beaten in the circuit. Both we're
idle last week but will get into
action during this weeks 13-game
program.
Southeastern Conference.-The
bum, nov the only unbeaten South
eastern team, beat Tulane 45-4l
and Vanderbilt 1914 to take the
lead. The Plainsmen have won
seven straight games, four in con
ference competition. Georgia Tech,
unbeaten leader a week ago, was
dumped by Kentucky, then by
Clemson of the Southern loop and
finally Saturday by Tulane, 1920.
florida, idle for two weeks, held
second place against a strong
threat from Tennessee, which
bowled over Mississippi State and
Georgia.
Southwest observation-disclosures.
although idle, began to see visions
Of a conference title as Southern
Methodist showed Rice out of a
threatening position and Texas A.
and M. knocked off Baylor. S. M.
u, with three victories and one
loss is second. Arkansas has won
four Straight and gets a big
"break' from the schedule, which
enables the RaZorbacks to play
their next four games against Rice
and Baylor, where they are notori-
ously tough.
Big Seven-One of those home
team always wins" situations left
Utah on top with three straight
victories while only one other team
has better than a 500 average.