The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-27
iFORDHAM, PENN AND ARMY SHOW GLASS IN EAST.
Texas Has Two Great Teams; !; Minnesota, NOtre
 Dame Powerful
BY JACK GUENTHER United Press Stan Correspondent)

United Press Stan Correspondens)
 New York, oct 27-lUP)--The south and the east took command of the race for the mythical na- tional football championship today as eight more major powers were marked up among the missing after the stormiest weekend of the season tumbled all but 12 caSe-hardened elevent from the perfect record ranks.
 With four weeks of action ahead, here are the survivors of the first half of 6 season which has leveleo the ranks of the mighty in what ape pears to be record time for the course:
 The south---Texas, Texas A. & M, Texas Tech, Duke and Vanderbilt.
 The east--Fordharn, Pennsylvan. ia, Temple, Army and DuQuesne. The Midlands--Minnesota and Notre Dame.
 That's the complete list and the signs of sectional strength are clear ly marked. Of the even dozen titarls, five belong to Dixie and five more to the Atlantic Seaboard. To make the case even more complete, the only two major teams which have not been defeated but are tied also belong in the same divisions--MtS- sissippi State in the south and Navy in the east.
 The squads joining hundreds of other hapleSs clubs already cut down were Santa Clara, Clemson, Ohio State, Michigan, Detroit, Vil- lanova, Rutgers and Navy--the lat. ter losang<its honor position through scorelass tie. In all but two cases those of Rutgers and Michigan theh defeats were 24-carat upsets.
 How They Stand
 Here are the developments by sec- tions:
 The southwest--ThiS conference gets banner billing for the might of It's two top teams, Texas Aggies and Texas U., who became the nations leading scorers by crumpling Baylor and Rice, 48-0 and 4O-0. They have scored 206 and i06 points respec- lively and are tied in conference standings with two victories and no defeats. Outside the conference, Texas Tech retained it's perfect record, too, by whipping New Mex leo, 36.O, while thrice-beaten Ar. kansas knocked over unbeaten De- troit, o.6.
 The Midlands-Minnesota took clear lead in the western conference by shading Michigan, TO, in the days top game, and thereby re- tained its position as one of the na- tion'S foremost elevens. Within the conference Northwestern toppled Ohio State, 14-7, Purdue shaded Iowa, 7-6, and Wisconsin out.scored Indiana, 27-25. Notre Dame hunlil- lated Illinois, 49-14, for its fifth straight triumph, and Duquesne up- set Marquette, 3i-l4. In the big six, Missouri whipped Nebraska, 60, and Kansas broke its losing streak at the expense of Iowa State, l3-O. Oklahoma toppled Santa Clara, 16- 6, and Tulsa defeated Oklahoma A. & M, 16-0.
 Rams and Quakers The East-E'ordham continued a. top the independents and Penn atop the Ivy league. The Rams repelled Texas Christian, 28-14, and Penn whacked Maryland, 66 6 Army fashioned its longest winning streak in years by upsetting Columia, 13-0, while Navy's guns were spiked, GO, by Harvard. Penn now has 8 wide lead in the Ivy league, where Dart mouth defeated Yale, To, and Cor nell topped Colgate, 21-2. In other games Temple won its fifth straight, defeating Bucknell, 4l-14; Syracuse ended Rutgers brief spree, 49-7; Boston College defeated George town, 14-6; Manhattan upset Vil- lanova, 0-6; and Duke humbled Pitt again, 2T-7.
 The South-In the southeastern conference, Alabama defeated Georgia, 27.l4; Georgia Tech de- feated Auburn, 2S-l4; Mississippi surprisingly whipped Tulane, 2O-l3; and LSU toppled Florida, l0-7. Van- derbilt, undisputed leader of the conference, humbled Princeton, 46- 2, in an intersectional go. Tn the southern conference, William and Mary went into 8 tie with Duke for the lead by defeating George Wash- ington, 48-0, and South Carolina upset Clemson, 1S-14. Furman, Wake Forest, VPI and VAdI all ad- vanced successfully and Kentucky and Tennessee won non-conference contests.
 The Pacific Coast-Stanford was the only team to survive wave of upsetS, defeating Washington, 13-7, to take the lead in the coast confer eEca and Rose Bowl scramble. Both Oregon teams had their hopes smashed, Oregon by UCLA, and State by Washington State, 14-O. California upset Southern Califor- mia, 14-O. In the Rocky Mountain area, Denver, Colorado and Colo