Evening star., 1941-11-03
Tough Ti|ts, Bad
Weather Tire
Grid Horde
Only Pitt, GoeIs, N.Y.U.
Bur Fordhom's Path
To Unbeuten Slate
Bv HAROLD CLAASSEN,
Associated Press Sports Writer.


NEW YORK, Nov. 3.-The coun-
try's football teams. worn out by
fighting potent opposition and ad-
verse weather conditions last week,
relax bit this Friday and Satur-
day before starting the final drive
to the seasons end.
Although almost all of the le
teams which remain unbeaten and
united snap into action. a pair Of
elevenS with tie to their dlScredit
tangle in the coming programs FORE
most game-Notre Dame VS.. Navy
at Baltimore.
The Midshipmen sloshed to a l3-
to-6 triumph over previously-un-
beaten Pennsylvania, while the mud
and a hard-hititng Army eleven
held Notre Dame to scoreless draw
in their 28th meeting last Saturday.
Fifteen of the countrys unbeaten
and united machines slipped to the
side in the CRIME and mud that
characterized the Saturday play
throughout the East and much Of
the Middle West
The six major perfect teams,
divided geographically, are:
East-Fordham, Duquesne.
Midwest-Minnesota
SOuth-Duke.
SouthWest-Texas and Texas
A. and M.
Pacific Coast-None.
All Play This Week.
They all are busy this week
end, with Fordham at Pittsburgh,
Duquesne at ST. Mary's, Minnesota
entertaining Nebraska. Duke taking
on Davidson, Texas playing BAYLOR
and Texas A. and NJ. going against
Southern Methodist.
The program by sections:
East-Fordham, 17-to-0 victor
over feared Purdue. now has only
Pittsburgh, st. Marys and New
York U. threatening a perfect rec
ord-and a bowl bid. Harvard.
which got by Princeton. 6 to 4, takes
on the Army crew that held Notre
/ Dame, and Princeton entertains
Dartmouth, 3-to-0 victim of William
and Mary. Yale, beaten by Brown.
Is at Cornell, loser to Columbia.
to 0. on Paul Governalis long run.
The Lions take on Pennsylvania,
Navy's victim of Saturdays mud
battle. Syracuse, which upset Wis
consin, 27-0, Journeys to Penn State.
Duquesne waits until Sunday be-
fore playing the Gaels of st. Mary's.
Temple, thoroughly thrashed BY
Boston College, plays Villanova and
the Boston Eagles take on Wake
Forest.
Gopher Cripples Play Huskers.
Midwest-Minnesota's cripples will
attempt to hand Nebraska its fourth
straight setback, and Northwestern.
against Indiana, hopes to forget its
8-to-7 loss to the Gophers. Michigan.
20-to-0 winner over Illinois. is idle
Iowa. surprise 13-to-7 winner over
Bo McMillins aggregation meets
Illinois, and Purdue goes against
Michigan State. whipped. 19 to 0, by
Missouri. The latter club will dis
play its ambidextrous sophomore,
Maurice Wade. in the annual meet
ing with New York U.
Oklahoma, which Smothered
Kansas, 38 to 0. has an appointment
with Iowa State. whose injury list
disappeared in the 27-to-0 beating
given South Dakota. Ohio State,
victor over Pitt. plays Wisconsin.
Southwest-Texas. with Pete Lay
den on the bench, whipped Southern
Methodist worse than Fordham
could do with its roster at full
strength and now goes against
Baylor S. M. u, 34-to-O victim of
Jack Grain, will try to halt Texas
A. and NJ. the Southwest Confer
ence's other unbeaten crew. The
Aggies counted in the final period
to spill troublesome Arkansas
machine, 7 to o.
Rice, 54-to-0 winner over
Centenary, tries the Razorbacks next
and Texas Christian tackles the
Louisiana Gentlemen.
Trojans Rested for Stanford.
Far West-Stanford, apparently
clicking again, invades Southern
California. which rested last Satur-
day. The Rose Bowl champions
debated Santa Clara. 27 to 7. show
ing little resemblance to the team
that lost to Oregon State early in
the season.
California. also a 27-to-7 winner,
but with U. c. L. A. as the
victim. entertains Washington. whose
Huskies stopped Montana, 81 to 0.
Oregon State, master of Idaho bv
80 to 0, descends on U. C. L. A.
South - Vanderbilt, its perfect
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