Evening star., 1941-10-27
Prolific B|astinq
Leaves Only Il
Clean S|ates
Coast Is Only Section
Without on Unbeuten
Big League Eleven
By HAROLD CLAASSEN,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

Associated Press Sports Writer.
NEW YORK. Oct 27-Football
fans will be saving their dimes and
box tops or pawning their summer
suits for any seats at the featured
games on this week ends bill that
includes Army VS. Notre Dame, Navy
VS.. Penn and Northwestern VS. Min
neSota.
Of those six teams, only North
western has been beaten, although
Navy was tied Saturday by a hard
charging Harvard machine. 0 to 0.
Last week ends prolific firing
brought the country's elevens to the
November mark with only II major
unbeaten. united aggregations and
three others tied once or more,
though undefeated.
Geographically they are split
this way:
Pacific Coast: None.
Midwest: Minnesota, Notre
Dame.
Rocky Mountains: Utah (tied
twice..
Southwest: Texas and Texas
A & NJ.
South: Vanderbilt. Duke.
Mississippi State Ctied).
East: Army. Fordham. Navy
(tiedD, Pennsylvania, Temple,
Duquesne.
None has a soft touch this week
end and any one of them may be
listed among the also-rans Saturday
night as are Santa Clara. Villanova.
Michigan. Ohio State. Detroit and
Rutgers for the first time today.
Army Surprises Itself.
The weeks program, by sections:
East-Army. doing better than
even the Generals expected under
Civilian Red Blaik. marched through
Columbia. 13 to 0, and now must
confront Notre Dame, likewise un-
beaten. before a sellout crowd in
New York Over in Philadelphia,
Navy defends an uncrossed goal line
against Penn team that has
whipped four straight foes Every
one of the 1891 tickets for the
contest already has been sold. Du-
! ouesne, a 31-to-14 victor over Mar
| quette to stay in the unbeaten
group, takes on Villanova. upset by
Manhattan, while Boston College
entertains Temple. another un-
! beaten eleven. at Boston.
| Another fray finds Fordham's un-
blemished record at stake in a meet
| ing with Purdue of the Big Ten.
The Rams clipped Texas Christian
Saturday, % to IA. after being held
even in the first half.
Columbia, Armys latest victim.
tricks to Cornell. a 21-to-2 winner
over Colgate: Dartmouth, 7-to-0
conquerer of Yale, plays host to VIII
liam and Mary of the Southern loop;
Harvard and Princeton, the latter
whipped. as to T. by Vanderbilt, open
the Big Three campaign, and Yale
takes on Brown.
Minnesota Banged Up.
Minnesota. with Capt.
Bruce Smith and a horde Of others
bruised in the 7-to-0 win over Michi-
gan, hopes to be in shape again for
the visit of Northwestern, in the
third chapter of the Big Ten title
mystery. The Wildcats pushed Ohio
State out of the all-victorious class,
IA to 7. Saturday.
| The Buckeyes take on Pittsburg,
which scored its first touchdown of
the year in losing to Duke. 81 to 7,
and the Wolverines seek solace in
their contest with Illinois, bounced
by Notre Dame, 49 to IA.
/ Iowa, spilled by Purdue, to s.
and Indiana. loser to Wisconsin in
a 27-to-25 thriller. tangle at Iowa
City. while the Badgers entertain
! Syracuse and the potent Y forma-
ton that showed Rutgers among the
. beaten teams. 49 to 7.
1 Missouri, 6-to-0 winner over Ne
braska, takes on Michigan State.
| Detroit. beaten. 9 to 6, by Arkansas.
seeks to start another winning streak
against Manhattan.
Georgia Tech Hurdle for Duke.
South-Duke, with only three
second division Southern Confer
ence foes remaining after this week.
has its toughest remaining hurdle
in Georgia Tech, 28-to-14 winner
over Auburn Vanderbilt will be
tested thoroughly by Tulane. spilled
by Mississippi. 20 to 13, but still
Southern poWerhouse.
Louisiana State, barely able to
sneak by Florida, 10 to 7, opposes the
Tennessee Vols. who weren't too i'm
pressive in their 21-to-6 victory over
little Cincinnati. Mississippi State
plays Southwestern.
Clemson. beaten for the first time
by South Carolina. has a Southern
Conference engagement with George
| Washington North Carolina, loser
by 13 to to Wake Forest, meets
North Carolina State. 44-to-0 winner
over NeWberry. Wake Forest mixes
(See CLAASSEN, Page A-16)