Evening star., 1942-11-07
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Badger Slate
Big Six, Coast Loops
Hold Crucial Tits;
Dixie Front Active
BY HAROLD CLAASSEN,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

BY HAROLD CLAASSEN,
Associated Press Sports Writer.
NEW YORK, Nov. 7.-New York
City, which prides itself on It's In
difference unless tho event is some-
thing important like q bargain base
ment sale, is all worked up today In
its role as host to q trio Of football
games.
Every one Of the 10000 seats in
Yankee Stadium has been sold for
the 18th meeting between Notre
Dame and Army in which the Irish
are 3-to-1 favorites to gain their
21st triumph.
Just across the river in the Polo
Grounds, Fordham and Louisiana
State mix before a throng Of $4,000
and similar crowd is expected to
shuttle all the way to the northern
tip of Manhattan Island for Co.
lumbia's rouser with Colgate.
While all this Is going on In the
Nations metropolis, Wisconsin and
Georgia Tech will be defending un-
blemished records against rugged
foes in their own communities.
Tough Tilt for Badgers.
The Badgers, Big Ten leaders and
winners a week ago over Ohio State,
are at Iowa City for the Hawkeyes'
homecoming in what may be Wis
consin's toughest game. The Iowans
have the heaviest line in the Big Ten
and an attack built around the pass
ing of Tom Farmer.
Kentucky is Georgia Techs Zoe
and the Wildcats have prepared for
the struggle by losing, 7 to 8, to
Georgia and dropping a 14-to-o de-
cision to Alabama. In addition,
Coach Bill Alexander will be absent
at the order of his doctor and As
sistant Mentor Bobby Dodd Will DO
In charge of the Engineers.
Michigan's two teams participate
in q pair Of intersectional games,
the university entertaining weak
ened Harvard outfit and the State
College Spartans trekking all the
way to the West Coast for a meet
Ing with Washington State.
otherwise, in the Midwest. Mis-
souri, is at Nebraska for a game that
likely will deteremine the Big Six
champion, Indiana Is at Minnesota.
Illinois is host to Northwestern, and
Ohio State hopes to get back on
the winning path at the expense OF
Pittsburgh.
Service Elevens Busy.
The Iowa Pre-Flighters and Fort
Knox meet at Louisville and Great
Lakes collides with Purdue eleven
that has been able to get only 81
points in six games.
Georgia, which bounded over the
Alabama hurdle last Saturday, has
T-minded Florida as its opposition,
while the Crimson Tide is busy with
South Carolina. Unpredictable Tu-
lane takes on Mississippi State, Mis-
sissippi is at Vanderbilt, and Auburn
tests the Georgia Pre-Flight COM
bination.
William and Mary fields its smart
team against Randolph Macon, and
Wake Forest should have little
trouble with Virginia Military if it
is true that Joe Muha can't play.
Duke and Maryland are foes at Dur
ham, and Virginia meets the Gener-
ais of Washington and Lee.
Baylor, making a belated entry
into the Southwest Conference
scramble, has a tough assignment in
Texas, which also wants the title,
and the fading defending champion,
Texas A. and M, has chance to
improve its record against Southern
Methodist. Arkansas entertains
Rice.
Oregon to Test UCLA.
UCLA, getting stronger each out
ing, has one of its severest tests in
the long train ride and a strong Ore
gon club, while California is slight
favorite over Southern California in
their annual big" game.
The days second largest crowd
probably will inhabit Franklin Field
where Pennsylvania is host to the
battered forces of Navy. Some 10 900
tickets have been sold for the
struggle.
Yale is determined to make Cor
nell its third straight victim and
Ossie Solems once-beaten Syracuse
outfit Penn State Brown, still with
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Cross and Dartmouth is at Prince.
ton.
Two of the countrys unbeaten
clubs, Boston College and Tulsa. are
active, the Eagles with . subpar
Temple squad while the Oklahomans
give Oklahoma A. and M glimpse
of an uncrossed goal line. That
scrap decides the Missouri Valley
Conference champion.
In the only major game on last
nights curtailed card, Villanovs
knocked of Iowa State, an intersec-
tional opponent from the Big siz
Conference, 32-7
AL Postus was the main cog in tha
Philadelphians' attack. He scored
two touchdowns and passed for two
more, completing nine Of the IL
aerials he tried for a total Of 127
yards. The last Villanova marker
came in the final 80 seconds, when
Tom Mccarthy, q substitute. slipped
off tackle and raced 73 yards.