The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-18
NORTHWE STERN AND NAVY GET BIG TESTS TODAY
Michigan and Cornell Ex' pected to Show Real
 Strength of FavOrites
BY JACK GUENTHER United Press Staff COrrespOndentD

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 New York October IS = (UP) - Three undefeated football jugger' nauts which picked up the l94i season right where they left off in l940 move against perfect-record rivals today in the Standout games of banner program that is sprinkled literally with conference classics.
 Tn the east it's Cornell, the Ivy league runner-up last year, against the tremendous man-power of the Navy. The middies have crushed three small opponents and get their first test in this one. Despite Cor nell's two major triumphs, 40,000 people in Baltimore look for 8 Navy triumph.
 In the midlands it's Michigan second to Minnesota last year, yer sus Northwestern at Evenston, Ill A capacity crowd of 47,500 is ex' pected to watch these two high scorers in what may prove to be the battle for western confererce championship. The fayorite: North western and Bill Decorrevont.
 Texas Special
 And in the deep southwest It's the Cotton Bowl champions oi Texas A. & M., defending confer. erce champions, against the revit. alized horned frogs of Texas Chris tan in a contest which has al Texas agog. This game will be played before upwards of 10000 al Ft. Worth, and it's rated dead even
 These are the spiciest dishes on tap, but there are plenty of other good ones.
 The program by sections:
 The middle wcst-The top battle in the western confereEce Is, of course, that between Northwestern and Michigan but two other lead CTS swing into action. Ohio State faces Purdue and Wisconsin op' poses Iowa within the league while Minnesota takes on hapless Pitt and Indiana meets Nebraska. Illinois gets Q rest in Creighton and is favored along with Ohio. Iowa, Minnesota and Nebraska. In the big six, Kansas State meets Oklahoma, ard Iowa State tackles Missouri. Kansas U. goes out Of the conference to oppose Mar quette.
 The southwest--TCU and Texas A. & M. headline activities in the conference while in another league battle the Texas U. squad IS ex- pected to riddle Arkansas. S. M. U. engages Auburn of the south- eastern conference in Birmingham while Rice meets Louisiana State. Nearby, New Mexico meets Ari- zona and Tulsa takes on St. Louis. Baylor lost to Villanova, l4.6, at Philadelphia last night.
 Looks Good
 The east-Cornell-N heads the parade but within the Ivy League defending champion Penn. unbeaten Dartmouth goes against sylvania opposes Princeton and Harvard. The Army has a tough assignment in Yale while Syracuse meets NYU and Penn State tackles Temple. Notre Dame gets push over against once-inighty Carnegie Tech while Fordham has an equally easy task in West Virginia. Holy Gross entertains Mississippi arc Boston College will try to fatter its unimpressive record against Manhattan.
 The south-Duke, the top team in Dixie plays host to Colgate in the most important game here while Tennessee and Albama clash in 6 contest normally a classic but this season just a ball game be. tween two beaten teams. In the southeastern conference, unbeaten Vanderbilt opposes Georgia Tech while in Ilon-conference games Tulane goes against North Caro- lima and Florida meets Maryland. In the southern conference, North Carolina State faces Wake Forest and the Citadel opposes Furman.
 The Pacific coast--Oregon State, 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 Washington will attempt to con- tinue it's comeback against UCLA. Stanford goes out of the confer. ence to meet San Francisco U. while Santa Clara, only major lin- beaten squad in this section, risks its record against Michigan State. Tn the Rocky Mountain area, its Colorado against Colorado State Denver versus Wyoming and UtaE 6k-A AA