Evening star., 1942-11-21
0de|I Is in Focus
With Eli Choice
Over Crimson
May Be Coach Of Year;
Buck-WoIverine Tilt
Pits Bright Sturs
BY HAROLD CLAASSEN,
World Wide Sports Writer.

NEW YORK, Nov. 21.-Tradition
takes over today's football program.
There's the hoary Yale-Harvard
contest at New Haven, the Coasts
big game of Stanford and California
Mississippi States encounter with
Mississippi, Indiana's affair with
Purdue and Boston College against
smaller Boston University.
And the Big Ten keeps alive its
tradition of having at least two
bowl" games every week of the
season with Michigan at Ohio State
and Minnesota at Wisconsin.
The Michigan-Ohio State FRAY,
about as traditional a game as the
conference has to offer, is expected
to lure $4,000 spectators for a
glimpse at two of the seasons finest
backflelds.
Gene Fekete and Paul Sarring-
haus are the Misters Big in the out
MT young Paul Brown has welded
IN his seemed year at the Buckeye
school, while Tom Kuzma, now that
ne Is whole again, does the heavy
Ior Mlchlgan.
Buckeyes Reach for Title.
An Ohio State victory would give
the Brownmen the conference title
while Michigan triumph would de-
lay the flag raising at Ann Arbor
until the outcome Of this afternoons S
meeting between Wisconsin and
Minnesota and next weeks tussle
involving Iowa and Michigan.
The Big Three title hinges on the
outcome of the Yale-Harvard get
together. Yale hasn't scored on the
Crimson since 1899, but the Ellis are
favored today, making it possible
that young HOWE Odell, a strong
candidate for the coach of the-year
honors, will tutor a title club in his
frst season at New Haven. Until
this campaign Yale had won only
two games in two seasons.
Boston College, although its CO.
captains, Halfback Mike Holovak
and Center Fred Naumetz, are hand
icapped by colds, should have little
difficulty handling neighboring Bos-
ton University, and Tulsa, also
plunging along undefeated, has
Creighton as its foe in a Missouri
Valley struggle.
The South's twin juggernauts,
Georgia and Georgia Tech, also take
the field today with the Engineers of
Bill Alexander slated with little
more than a heavy scrimmage
against Florida. Georgia, however,
may find the going difficult against
Auburn, team that was good
enough to make Louisiana State re-
gret it's hospitality.
Sugar Bowl Foes Meet.
Other Southern meetings are
Kentucky Tennessee. North Car
olina State VS.. Duke and North
Carolina at Virginia. In the South
west loop, where Texas and Texas
A. & M. are idle in preparation for
their Turkey day meeting, Baylor
plays Southern Methodist and Rice
mixes with Texas Christian.
The East has the replay of last
Sugar Bowl game with a
beaten Missouri opposing a battered
Fordham. Princeton closes its sea-
son against Army in Yankee Sta
dium and Paul Governali writes
f1nis to his Columbia career needing
239 yards to establish collegiate
passing mark. Dartmouth is the
opponent.
Washington and u. C.. l.. A.. try.
ing to keep in the Coast picture,
share the Coast limelight with the
Stanford-California game and Ore
gon-Oregon State are rivals in the
far Northwest.
On the intersectional program,
Arkansas takes its lowly record to
Detroit, West Virginia invades
Michigan State and Oklahoma tests
Temples Owls.