The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-11-01
N0TRE DAME ARMY
IS FEATURE GAME
Penn-Navy Clash Brings
Together Two Top
Flight Teams

NEW YORK, Oct. 31.-tP'-This
;s the weekend that the program
salesman becomes the most in'
portant parsonage in the stadiums
= the football teams, revamped
hv Uncle Sans war needs. pro.
vide a schedule that calls for
ARMY VS. Notre Dame, Penn vs.
Navy and numerous crucial con-
ference clashes.
Gridiron masterpieces at Notre
Dame, Michigan, Purdue, DUKE
and Georgia Tech will be playing
for the first time without tralnee
stars that made them click earlier
in the season, an experience that
Southern California, Dartmouth
and Southwestern of Texas among
others had last Saturday.
Angelo Bertelli said farewell to
Notre Dame for the duration oy
passing for three touchdowns and
bucking across fourth as the
Irish Inundated Navy, 80 to 6.
with $4,000 fans watching at
Cleveland. In Philadelphia Bob
Odell, indicted into the Navy re-
serve only two days earlier, snag-
ged a pass for 71-yard gain and
a fourth-period touchdown that
brought Pennsylvania a Is to IS
deadlock with Army.
Prior to the start of the two
games, neither participant had
been tied or defeated this year.
Purdue and Michigan continued
their unbeaten Big Ten status by
downing Wisconsin and Illinois, re.
spectively. The Boilermakers
crushed the Badgers, 80 to 0, as
Tony Butkovich smashed the Big
Ten scoring record before being
transferred by the Navy and Mich.
igan knocked off the Illini, AZ to 6.
Northwestern, an early season
victim of Michigan, stayed in the
title chase with a AZ to verdict
over once-potent Minnesota, the
next foe for Purdue.
Southern California clinched the
Southern Pacific Coast circuit flag
and won a Rose Bowl bid by
downing California for the second
time this season, Is to @. Washing.
ton demonstrated again that it's
lonesome Huskies are a North
west power by spilling the Spo.
kane Air Force outfit, Al to 7.
Duke, Wake Forest and North
Carolina loom largest in the
Southern Circuit although the
Wake Forest Deacons have lost
one family start to Maryland and
Duke polished off North Carolina,
IA to 7, in an earlier meeting.
The Blue Devils on Saturday
trimmed Georgia Tech, IA to z,
with both clubs shy some of their
Navy trainee heroes and North
Carolina bested North Carolina
State, 81 to 10. Wake Forest romp-
ed over Clemson's freshmen, Al
to II, in another family spat.
North and South Carolina have
their annual feud Saturday.
Texas and Texas A. & M. con-
tinued moving toward their
Thanksgiving Day clash at the
top of the Southwest Conference
latter with positive verdicts.
Missouri and Oklahoma appar.
emily are the one-two teams in
the Big Six again and are booked
for meeting at Columbia on
Nov. 10. The Tigers, with 24O-
pound Don (BulD Reece in the
fullback slot, crushed Nebraska
50 to 20 while the Sooners elini.
mated tough loop foe, Iowa
State, 81 to 7.
Tulsa, tied by Southwestern OF
Texas in Saturdays outing in a g
to 6 struggle, is the leader in the
abbreviated Missouri Valley loop
and Colorado has a similar sta
tus in the Rocky Mountains Big
Seven.
Louisiana State, shepherded by
big Steve Van Buren,, has the best
conference record among the four
surviving Southeastern loop teams
but collides with Georgia Tech
Saturday and still must meet Tu.
lane on Nov. 20. The Bayou Tigers
banged out pair of touchdowns
Saturday to trip Texas Christian.
IA to 0. Tulane was stopped by
the eorgia Pre-Flighters, IA to 10.
In the informal East the two
service schools and PENNSYLVANIA
have Dartmouth, Holy Cross and
Cornell for their chief rivals to
sectional claim. Dartmouth, idle
for three weeks, came back ia
spill Yale. 20 to 6, Holy Cross
measured Colgate, IA to 7, and
Cornell found Columbia no nuzz1.
at all, 80 to 6.
Among the service teams Iowa
Pre-Fhght continued undefeated
with a 10 to 2 verdict over Camp
Riley, Great Lakes introduced its
I-tormation in downing Western
Michigan, 80 to 6, and March
Field, beaten only by Washington.
edged out St. Mary's Pre-FIight.
Z to 6.