Evening star., 1941-10-11
Headline Scraps
Involve Rankinq
Dixie E|evens
Notre Danes Bottle
With Georgia Tech
Is Outstanding
By the Associated P,ess.

BY the Associated PteSs.
NEW YORK, Oct. 1.-Two foot
ball teams-Notre Dame and Illinois
battle today for a share of the
gridiron glory that was theirs in
the past.
Notre Dame, now coached bv
Frank Leahy, meets Georgia Tech
in one of the days numerous top
flight intersectional contests while
Illinois, still under the willy Bob
Zuppke, Is Minnesotas foe.
The Irish, longing for another un-
defeated team like those enjoyed
under Knute Rockne, are favored
to take the seasons third big step
in that direction despite the wiz
ardry concocted by Bill Alexander
and his magicians.
Zuppke seldom is denied when he
wants" or needs triumph as
Southern California and Michigan
can testify from experience in re-
cent years. His job threatened last
winter, Zuppke could silence his
critics by upsetting Minnesota. a
candidate to succeed itself as the
Nations No. | outfit.
Wisconsin at Northwestern.
The Illinois s-Minnesota clash is a
Big Ten title fracas, but the inter
sectional games highlight the days
program. Included are Fordham-
North Carolina. Florida
Boston College Clemson, Michigan
Pittsburgh. Rice Tulane. Indiana
Texas Christian, Southern Metho-
| dist College of Pacific and Texas A.
& M.-NeW York University.
Northwestern entertains Wlscon-
sin in the only other Big Ten game
and Coach Paul Brown of the idle
Ohio Staters is celebrating the open
date by scouting the Wildcat
Badger fray.
| The inVaSions by Notre Dame,
Fordlam and Villanova occupy the
South, but Kentucky celebrates its
5Oth year of football by entertaining
Vanderbilt for the 45th time in a
Southeastern Conference clash, and
Dukes mighty Blue Devils tussle
with Maryland in a Southern cir
cult game.
Other games oelow the Mason
Dixon Line are: Howard Alabama,
Louisiana Tech-Auburn, Mississippi
State-Louisiana State, Dayton
Tennessee. SeWanee Davidson,
North Carolina State Furman.
Wake Forest-South Carolina and
William and Virginia Poly.
Oregon State Tests Stanford.
| Arkansas and Baylor, two South
west circuit teams not engaged in
intersectional warfare. play the lone
game with a bearing on the loop
| standings. Texas University, grad
ually climbing to the Nations top
ranking, treks only to Dallas, how
ever. where Oklahoma of the Big
Six will be met in the Cotton Bowl.
Nebraska. the defending Big Six
champion, tangles with the injury
riddled University of Kansas squad
and MissouriIs band takes on Kan
sas State.
Along the Pacific Coast, Stanford
takes its T-formatlon TO oregon
State, and Southern California, al
most wrecked by the Ohio State
blast of week ago, tries to
straighten itself at OregonS eX-
pense.
Powerful Santa Clara will turn
its Bronchos loose upon California
of the Coast League and Washing
ton and Washington State will settle
the supremacy of the Far Northwest
In the East, Navy Is so sure OF q
triumph over Lafayette that only
two regulars are in the starting
lineup, while Coach Lou Little OF
Columbia combed the campus for
enough able bodied athletes to face
Princeton.
Yale, Penn Tangling.
Pennsylvania, already victor over
Harvard, takes on second member
of the Big Three in Spike Nelson s
surprising Yale sophomores.
Holy Cross rampaging Crusaders
mix with Syracuse, a team that
couldn't overcome graduation
wrecked Cornell. The Big Red has
: the slowly-developing Harvard squad
as its foe today.
Colgate is at Dartmouth and
Army takes on the West Point OF
the South" Virginia Military Insti-
tute. Bucknell and Pennsylvania
State will attract another Eastern
throng.