Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-19
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NEW YORK. Oct. .l8. (UPD-Three
unbeaten football iuggernautS which
picked up the 194l season rlgh.
where they left off in l940-mo1a
against perfect record rivals today
in the standOut games OF banner
program that is sprlnklcd Literally
with conference classics.
III the cast it's Cornell, the w.
league runncr-up last ,;car, agalna.
The tremendous manpOWer OF thN
Navy. The MidciVS nave crushed
imec small opponents end get their
first test IN this orc. Despite Cor
nCllS Two major triumphS, 49,0e9
people III Baltimore look for a Nav
triumph.
In the mldlandS it's Michigan,
second to Minnesota last year, YER
Sua Northwestern at Evanston, Ill
capacity crowd Of 1880 is cX-
pccted to watch these two high scor-
crs in what may prove to be the
battle for western conference cham
pionShip. The fayOritc: Northwest
crn and Bill DcCOrrcvOnt.
And III the deep southwest it's
the Cotton Bowl champions OF Tex
as A & NJ defending conference
champions, against the reVltaized
Horned Frogs of Texas Christian
in a contest which has all Texas
aeog This game Will be played be-
fore upwards OF 10000 at Ft Worth
and it's rated dead even.
Those are the SpiCicSt dishes on
tap, but there are plenty of other
good ones.
The program by sections:
The middleWcst-ThC top battle
in the western conference Is, OF
course. that between Northwestern
and Michigan but the other leaders
swing into action, OHIO State faces
Purdue ana Wisconsin opposes Iowa
with the league while Minnesota
takes on haplCsS Pit and Indiana
meet Nebraska. Illinois gets a rest
against Drake and is favored along
with Ohio, Iowa Minnesota and
Nebraska. In the Big Six, Kansas
State meets Oklahoma and Iowa
State tackles Missouri. Kansas U
goes out of the conference to OPP
pose Marquette.
The East Cornell Navy heads the
parade but within the IVY league
defending champion Pennsylvania
opposes Princeton and unbcaten
Dartmouth goes against Harvard.
The Army has a tough assignment
in Yale while Syracuse meets N.Y.
and penn State tackles Temple.
No're Dame gets q pU@hoVCr against
oncC-mighty Carnegie ToCh while
Fordham has an equally easy tast
III West virginia. Holy Cross en-
tcrtains Mississippi and Boston Col
leee will try ~ fattrn its lnllmprc5-
sivc record against Manhattan,
The South-Duke, the top team III
Dixie plays host to Colgate in the
most important game here while
Tennessee and Alabama clash in 4
contest normally a classic but this
season just ball game between
Two beaten teams.
In the southeastern conference,
unbeaten Vanderbilt opposes GeOr-
Gia Tech while on non conference
games Tulane goes against North
Carolina and Florida meets Mary
land. In the Southern conference,
North Carolina State faces Wake
Forest and The Citadel opposes Fur
man
The Pacific Oregon Stat.
the sections new Cinderella, takes
a rest while Oregon opposes Cali
fOrnia as the round robin scramble
towards the Rose Bowl goes on.
Southern California will try again
against Washington State and Wash
ington will attempt to continue its
comeback against UCLA. Stanford
goes out of the conference to meet
San Francisco u. while Santa Clara,
only ma jor unbeatcn squad in this
section, risks its record against
Michigan State In the Rocky Noun
tain area. its Colorado AGAINST Col
orado state, Denver versus WyOn
ing and Utah state against Idaho