Evening star., 1941-10-18
TexasAg-T.
Battle Among
High Spots
Northwestern's Clash
With Michigan, 'Bumo-
Vol Froy Stir Fans
By HAROLD CLAASSEN.
Associated Press Sports Writer.

NEW YORK, Oct. 18-Today's
football program perhaps doesn't
have the quantity of recent Satur-
days, but it makes up that deficiency
in quality and there are at least a
half dozen games whose outcomeS
have caused more discussions than
the issues in a by-year election.
Uppermost in the debates is the
Michigan fracas In
which Lynn o. Pappy) Waldorf
turns loose a whole horde Of backs
against a Wolverine line that isn't
supposed to have a weak spot.
Every one of the Evanston sta
diums $4,000 seats will be occupied
for this first meeting of two Big
Ten standouts, but it can't COM
pletely overshadow such other get
togethers as Corneu-Navy, Texas
Christian-Texas A and NJ, Column
bia- Georgia or Michigan State-
Santa Clara.
And down in the South they will
bet that you can't pick the winner
of the Alabama Tennessee or North
Carolina Tulane contests.
The Michigan-N meet
ing, however, does overshadow such
Big Ten tilts as IoUa's meeting with
tWice-beaten Wisconsin, Ohio States
hopes of making it three wins at
Purdues expense Pittsburgh's visit
to Minnesota and brakes collision
with Illinois.
Indiana After First Victory.
Indiana, unable to get started this
wear. goes against another tough
foe, this time Nebraska Of the Big
Six and last years Rose Bowl
victim.
Down in the Southwest Confer
ence where they call themselves the
Lone Star elevens but every club
has a half dozen heroes. Texas gal
Iops against Arkansas in a strictly
league affair. while Southern Meth
odist is the foe of Auburn and Rice
drives against Louisiana State.
Climbing just a notch higher on
YOUR map you will find Oklahoma
A. and M. entertaining Detroit Uni
versity. and Tulsa, one Of the Mis-
souri, Valley threats, playing host to
the st. Louis University Billikens,
In addition to Indiana-NebrasKa,
the Big Six offers Oklahoma at
Kansas State and one Of Missouri
better teams against Iowa State at
AmeS.
Out on the Pacific Coast. where
they change football leaders as often
as Broadway playboy changes girl
friends. California mixes with Ore
gon while Stanford, its victory string
exhausted, hopes to take of on an
other with San Francisco University
as the victim.
Santa Clara Risks Record.
Other games on the Sunset Coast
pit Washington State against South
ern California and U. c. L. A. against
Washington in addition to unbeaten
Santa Clara's party with Michigan
State.
The Rocky Mountain area Is con-
cerned only with itself in a quartet
of contests that sends Utah over TO
Brigham Young, Denver TO Wyo-
ming, Idaho to Utah State and Colo
RADIO State to Colorado.
The whole of Dixie is f1ecked with
attractive contests. Vanderbilt. still
rolling along, meets Georgia Tech
and somewhat tarnished Alabama
faces blemished Tennessee, plus Col
gates invasion of Duke.
The South also puts on display
Wake Forest and North Carolina
State, Furman VS.. The Citadel, Vir-
ginia VS.. V. M. l., William e. Mary
against Hampton-Sydney and v. P.
I. at Davidson.
Along the Atlantic seaboard the
program is dominated by Georgia's s
unbeaten Bulldogs against Colum-
bias smartly coached Lions and
Notre Dame with crumbling Car
negie Tech. 1t is the final game in
a 19-year-old rivalry between the
Scots and the Irish.
Yale Out to Trip Army.
Yale's ambitious Sophomores hope
to give Army's unknown forces their
first defeat and Pennsylvania carries
an unblemished record on the field
against Princeton's Tigers.
West Virginia wants to prove by
beating Fordham that the 40-to-0
score Navy accumulated was all a
mistake and Boston College, still
hunting its first l941 triumph. has
Manhattan College for attempt No.
8. Nearby Harvard entertains Dart
mouth and Syracuse, with its center
turning his back to the foes. brings
its "Y" formation to New York Uni
versity.