Evening star., 1942-10-19
Unbeaten Ranks
AreHeaded for
Severe Tests
Alabama, Sonto Clara
Among Nations Best
To Be Put on Spot
BY AUSTIN BEALMEAR,

AseVoAdlcu E1ceS opOTIS WHICH,
NEW YORK, Oct. 19.-Now that
the Nations collegiate football
teams have discovered that even the
Navy Pre-Flight squads aren't be-
yond defeat, they can return to the
business OF humping of their own
unbeaten clubs and settling their
conference disputes.
The unbeaten ranks were thinned
last week when such teams as Ten
'nessee, Vanderbilt, Colgate and Du-
quesne bit the dust, but there are
several left which have nothing to
worry about-untl the coming week
end.
Then the records of undefeated
powers like Ohio State, Illinois, Ala
bama and Santa Clara will be put on
the line against stern opposition,
with the Midwest section promising
to furnish a large portion Of the
fireworks.
Illinois, which clipped Iowa, 1877,
Saturday for victory number four, is
due for its stiffest test yet when it
collides with Notre Dame, the team
that grounded Bernie Bierman's
Iowa Pre-F'light Seahawks, 28-O.
Iowa, Coast Pre-Flights Tilt.
At the same time Ohio State, con-
queror Of Purdue by 26-O in a Big
Ten game, will tangle with North
ern, and Michigan, after beating
Northwestern, 34-16, will try Min
nesota, 1872 winner over Nebraska,
in conference play. Other Big Ten
struggles will pit Wisconsin against
Purdue and Indiana against Iowa.
Wisconsin tripped Great Lakes Ma
val, 1877, and Indiana turned back
Pitt, 1877, Saturday.
Army, high on the list OF the East's
unbeaten teams after squelching
Columbia. 34-6, takes on Harvard in
one OF the Eastern headline tilts.
Dartmouth, 1872 winner over Har-
ward, catches Yale. which lost to
Navy, 1876, and Navy entertains
unbeaten Georgia Tech in an inter-
sectional affair.
Syracuse, which kept its record
clean with a 1870 win over Holy
Cross, meets Cornell, and Brown, still
undefeated after a TO brush with
Lafayette, faces Princeton, a team
that turned in its second straight
surprise by tying Pennsylvania, 6-6.
b. C. Tackles Deacons.
Boston College, another unbeaten
giant killer which tripped North
Carolina pre-f1ight 7-6, stakes its
record against Wake Forest. In
other Eastern topnotchers, Holy
Cross will take on North Carolina
State, Penn will entertain Columbia,
Penn State will tangle with Colgate
and Pitt will face Duke.
Georgia, riding high after a 400
trouncing of Tulane, will meet
Cincinnati with its clean slate in
little danger, but Alabama, the club
that dashed Tennessee's hopes, 80,
and appears to be the only outfit in
the South big enough to hold
Georgia, must battle Kentucky.
Louisiana State meets Georgia
Pre-Flight and other Southern
highlights include Florida against
Mississippi State, Mississippi against
Arkansas, Tulane against Arkansas
and William and Mary against
George Washington.
Unbeaten Texas Christian, To
winner over Texas A. & NJ, steps
out of the Southwest Conference
for tilt with Pensacola Air Base,
but league affairs will send Rice
against Texas and Baylor against
Texas A. & M.
The Big Six will have full slate,
featuring Nebraska Oklahoma
Missouri-Iowa State and Kansas
Kansas State.
In the Far West, Santa Claras
un b e ten Broncos, who have
whipped three Pacific Coast teams
including Champion Oregon State
TO, last week, meet another, strong
U. c. L. A. Oregon State ties into
Washington State in a conference
tussle, with Washington meeting
California and Stanford facing
Southern Cal in others.
Tulsa, unscored on after four
starts, tries St. Louis on a Friday
program that also includes Auburn
against Villanova and the North
Carolina Pre-Flighters against
Temple.