The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-06
FIVE COLLEGE
 COMBINES HAVE
 PERFECT MARKS
BY CARL LUNDQUTsT

(Un1ce0 Press StAtk COfEeSpOMueutD
 New York, November 6 - (UP) -- The perfect record football teams get most of the publicity. but today as time draws near for New Years Day Bowl game invitations, a num- Der of squads with a single defeat hold key positions while the ranks of the unbeaten continue to dwindle.
 Tn the so-called run for national honors. top consideration still must go to the major unbeaten and united college teams, Army, Ohio State, Mississippi State, Yale, and Wake Forest along with their service eleven counterparts, Randolph Field CTexas) Pliers, Bainbridge, Md, naval and the Norman, Okla, Naval Boomers.
 Yet only few steps behind are other elevenS = many of them more powerful because of harder sched- ules-who have only single defeat.
 A lot of fans have forgotten about Illinois, Michigan, Iowa Pre-Flight, Great Lakes Naval, Washington, and Virginia. Even Notre Dame, Georgia Tech, Oklahoma A & M, Michigan State, Iowa State and Ala bama, which tasted defeat for the first time Saturday, seem out of the running for national honors, but perhaps only temporarily.
 The Irish of Notre Dame could regain lost caste by humbl1ng Army's Cadets at New York'S Yan- kee Stadium Saturday and have in their favor the fact that they have been tested by series of top-flight opponents.
 The other perfect record college teams also have sterner tests than usual facing them. Wake Forests assignment is least enviable because the deacons must face the rebound ing Duke Eleven which knocked Georgia Tech from the perfect record ranks. Yale opposes Brown, potential trouble maker, while Mississippi States Maroons face the alwayS-tough Auburn plainsmen. Only Ohio State appears to have lit tie trouble in store, although if the Buckeyes let down after their hard game with Indiana, Pittsburgh may be TO pushover.
 Navy, which ended Notre Danes long reign as collegiate kingpin, gets no change to relax against Cornell's improving Big Red eleven, but Pennsylvania should recoup against Columbia's kids. Other eastern games match Holy Cross Colgate, Princeton in its season opener against Muhlenberg, Temple-Penn State, New York-Swarthmore, West Virginia Lehigh, Villanova Camp Kilmer, and Lafayette-Rutgers
 Other top southern games are Alabama Mississippi, Clemson-Vir- ginia Military, Florida Georgia, Georgia Pre- -Flight-North Carolina Pre- Flight, North Carolina William and Mary, Richmond Virginia, South Carolina-Presbyterian, and Bainbridge Cherry Point, N. C., Marines.
 In the Big Ten there is full slate of conference games with the Mich igan- Illinois battle for second place subordinating Purdue-Northwestern, Wisconsin Iowa and Indiana-Min- nesota. Oklahoma and Missouri meet for the Big Six title while Kansas-Kansas State and Neb- raska-Iowa State are other confer ence games. Other mid-western games include Great Lakes-Lincoln Neb. A. A. F. and Iowa Pre-Flight vs Bunker Hill, Iowa Naval.
 Rice, the southwest conference leader will be out for vicarious ven- geance of its defeat by little Texas Tech, when it opposes Arkansas. Southern Methodist meets Texas A. & M., while Texas goes outside to play Oklahoma A. & M, which dropped its first game to the Nor man boomers. Texas Christian will determine whether the Texas Tech victory was a fluke, while Tulsa, beaten twice in a row, tries to re- coup against southwestern of Texas.
 California and U. c. L. A., meet for the second time on the Pacific coast with both teams still in the running for the Rose Bowl game. Washington plays the March Field Pliers and Camp Shoemaker meets Nevada in other coast contests.
 In the Rocky Mountain program, limited as usual, Utah opposes Col orado College and the Second Air Force Superbombers meet Fort Warren, Wyo.