Evening star., 1942-10-26
badger-Buckeye
Scrap Brings
Showdown
Geor9io-AIobomo Tilt
May Produce Champ
Of Southeastern
BY AUSTIN BEALMEAR,
Associated Presa Sports Writer.

Associated Press sports Writer.
NEW YORK, Oct. 26.-With most
OF their intersectional struggles and
non-conference "breathers" out Of
the way, the Nations college foot
ball teams come up this week to
that point Of the season in which
the various sections can begin sepa-
rating the champions from the ALSO
rams.
As on most football Saturdays of
the past in this wartime season, the
Midwest again will have a corner on
the so-called "naturals," but there
will be enough back yard feuds in
other sections Of the country to take
care of the paying customers and
help clarity conference title pictures.
The Big Ten Conference reaches
a showdown stage. with a drastic
revision of the standings 4 definite
possibility.
Ohio State, which lived up to its
No. / national rating by knocking
of Northwestern, 20-6, Saturday for
its nth victory Of the year and the
third in the conference. meets un-
beaten but once tied Wisconsin in
the days top tilt in that league, II
not in all the land.
Wisconsin blanked Purdue, 1870,
in its first conference outing Satur-
day and moved In along the loops
first three.
Illinois Meets Michigan.
Illinois, knocked out Of the un-
defeated ranks by Notre Dame,
2l-14, will 60 after victory No. 3
on a clean conference slate against
Michigan, tripped by Minnesota,
1914. Northwestern will try for its
first league win in four starts
against Minnesota, and Iowa, 14-13
winner over Indiana, will tangle
with Purdue. With no league op-
ponent to play, Indiana must
tackle the well-rested Iowa Pre-
Flight Seahawks.
Notre Dame, getting better by
the week, moves into Cleveland for
60 at Navy team that has won
and lost on alternate Saturdays and
was sunk, 21-0, by .unbeaten
Georgia Tech last week.
The Southeastern Conference
may find its 1912 champion in the
winner Of Saturdays Dixie head
liner between two unbeaten powers,
Georgia and Alabama. The latter
was hard pressed to stop Kentucky,
l4-0, for its fifth win, while Georgia
breezed through Cincinnati, 1913,
for its sixth. Georgia Tech has a
non-conference date with Duke,
which rolled over Pitt, $50, for its
second decisive triumph in a row.
Tulane, 29-14 winner over North
Carolina. clashes with Vanderbilt,
and L. S. u, which routed Georgia
Pre-Flight, $40, tangles with Ten
nessee in other loop tits.
Carolina Has Family Party.
William and Mary, the Southern
Conference favorite, has a nom
conference date with Dartmouth,
but North Carolina has its annual
argument with North Carolina
State in league play.
The East's top-flight encounte.
brings unheaten Army face to face
with Pennsylvania. which routed
Columbia. 1912. while Army was
stopping Harvard. 14-0, last week
Syracuse, another Eastern team
without a loss, dumped Cornell,
12-7 but must tackle North Caro-
lima Pre-Flight this week.
Unbeaten Boston College, 27-0
winner of Wake Forest, catches
Georgetown; Harvard battles Prince
ton. which handed Brown its first
defeat, 1912. and Brown faces Yale
In the Southwest, undefeated
Texas Christian, fresh from 21-0
triumph over the Pensacoa Flyers,
returns to Conference play against
Baylor, which nipped Texas A. and
NJ, 60. Texas. which pulled out
1877 decision over Rice, bangs into
another league foe, Southern Meth
odist, and Texas A. and M. plays
Arkansas.
On the Pacific Coast, U. C. L. A.,
which booted Santa Clara out OF
the unbeaten ranks, 14-6, faces a
siren test against Stanford, 1875
winner over Southern California.
After handing Washington a 1876
surprise, California meets Oregon.
Washington tangles with oregon
State in another conference struggle
and Washington State engages the
California -Flighters.
In the Big Six, Nebraska will meet
Kansas and Oklahoma will face
Iowa State in the only two con-
ference games scheduled.