Evening star., 1941-10-28
Fordhan, Third,
Makes Biggest
Gain in Voting
Navy, Tulane Out Of
Top 10; Penn, Vundy
Jump to Select Lot
BY BILL BONI.
Associated Press Sports Writer.

NEW YORK, Oct. 28-If Min
nesota and Texas, leaders in oppo-
site parts Of the country and eX-
ponents of contrasting types of foot
ball. were to meet today their game
would end in a tie.
That. at least, is the view Of 127
of the country's gridlron experts.
Voting in the third Associated Press
ranking poll of the year, in which
each man lists in order the teams he
considers to be the top 10. they
placed the Golden Gophers of the
Western Conference and the Long,
horns Of the Southwest in deadlock
at the head of the parade.
On q 10-9-8-7-6, etc. scoring basis.
each team poued 1.161 points. Min
nesota held the edge in frst-place
votes, with so to So. but Texas made
up for that with more solid support
in the secondary positions.
Gophers, Irish, Penn Favored.
The poll also left little doubt OF
which teams are the CONSENSUS IA
vorites in next Saturdays three
major battles, each Of which al
ready is an assured selIout. Vim
dicated by the TO score in their
ranking of Minnesota two nOtches
ahead of Michigan last week. this
time the experts made the Gophers
a strong choice TO continue unbeaten
against Northwestern, by rating the
wildcats ninth.
Similarly Notre Dame, in sixth
place, is given a comfortable mar
gin over Army, rated 14th on four
straight victories. but probably
lacking in manpower to continue its
remarkable comeback past this en-
gagement. A closer game. the ex-
perts think, should be that between
all-Winning Penn. al eighth place,
and undefeated but once-tled Navy,
at llth.
Last weeks results shuffled the
order considerably. Minnesota and
Texas ran one-two the first two
weeks and Duke continued in
fourth place But Fordham, the
East's best. came up from sixth 20
third. Texas A and NJ. from ninth
to fifth and Notre Dame from sew
enth to sixth, While Michigan
dropped four notches to seventh.
Navy. Tulane. Santa Clara Sink.
Gone from the first 10 are Navy,
due to that scoreIess tie with Har-
ward: Tulane. through its second
loss of the year ito Mississippi and
Santa Clara, upset by Oklahoma. In
their places are Penn: Northwest
ern. impressive winner over Ohio
State. and Vanderbilt, only all
winning survivor in the Southeast
ern Conference and boosted from
18th to 10th on its rout of Princeton.
Texas and the Aggies have al
ways-dangerous conference dates
Saturday, the LOnghorns with
Southern Methodist and A. and NJ.
with Arkansas. Fordham takes on
improving Purdue in its fourth in
tersectional game in five starts.
gets by, should run out its season
without a loss; Michigan plays ILL
nois, and Vanderbilt appears in for
a thorough test againts Tulane.
The standing Of the teams FIRST
place votes in parentheseS, points
awarded on basis of 10-9-87-6. etc.
First 10.
Tie for Minnesota (60) and
Texas (53), 1.16l.
3-Fordham 90, 764.
4-Duke (5), 702.
5-Texas A and M 663.
6-Notre Dame, 636.
7-Michigan, 3o6.
8-Penn n, 315
9-NorthWestern. 23i.
lO-Vanderbilt, 100.
Second 10-1l, Navy, 1853: II, STAN
ford. 1856; 13, Temple, 107: IA, Army.
55; Is, Alabama, AZ; l6, Duquesne, "a,
tie for II. Mississippi and Mississippi
/ State, % each; 10, Missouri, %; 20,
! Southern Methodist, l6.
Also ran-Ohio State, Is; Tulane,
10; Texas Tech and Santa Clara, 7
each. and oregon State, 3; Washing