Evening star., 1945-11-24
First Big Ten Crown
lis Aim Of Hoosiers
In Purdue Clash

their climatic game on December /
ivy-shrined u traditional rivalries
shared interest with conference title
games today on the last big" Satur.
day Of the football season.
Tops in national interest probably
| is the Indiana-Purdue battle back
home in Bloomington, Ind, where
Coach Bo McMillin's Hoosiers bio
for their first Western Conference
crown.
If Indiana falls, either the defend
ing champions from Ohio State o,
Michigan can grab the big prize
The Buckeyes and Wolverines collide
before $4,000 at Ann Arbor.
Alabama's official designation as
the Eastern team in the Rose Bowl
ended an epidemic of wild guessing
but left the Western half of the
picture as much in the air as ever
U. C. L. A., which upset previously
unbeaten st. Mary's a week ago
takes on California in an important
game and Southern California meets
Oregon State. However, the Pacific
Coast champ probably won't be de-
termined until U. C. l.. A. and
Southern Cal clash December /.
Missouri can clinch the Big Six
flag by knocking off Kansas. Rice
can tie idle Texas for the South
west Conference lead by subduine
Texas Christian and Pennsylvania
can hammer down the unofficial Ivy
League championship by downing ar
underdog Cornell eleven.
Irish Tulane Drawing 5000.
Nothing much will be decided al
New Orleans, but the old Bayou
country is stirred up over the
first visit of Notre Dame which
tackles Tulane. They are claiming
the South's largest crowd Of the year
IS 900, for the contest that will boost
the Irish toward a near-record at
tendance
Among the teams which may have
an eye on January l bowl bid
Holy Cross will try to recover some
of the prestige it lost in bowling
to Temple, by whipping Boston Col
lege in a Sunday game.
Duke, in addition to clinchine
the Southern Conference champion
ship, can pick up glamour as a
bowl candidate by dumping North
Carolina in a neighborhood game
that may border on the rough and
tumble.
Oklahoma A. & M, unbeaten in
college ranks in its last II starts
goes after another victory and a
New Year day spot in it's back
yard brawl with Oklahoma.
Virginia's unbeaten powerhouse
faces Maryland and Tennessee still
clings to a chance of bowl invi-
tation as it invades Kentucky.
The ivy is knee deep in the East
where old-time rivalries make up
for coast-to-coast glamour. The
Penn-Cornell tilt heads the list with
Penn favored. Columbia has a
chance to wind up its campaign
with an impressive 81 record, its
highest point total under Coach
Lou Little, if it beats Dartmouth
Yale, Princeton in Seth Tilt.
Yale and Princeton meet for the
Seth time, Brown and Colgate re-
new old acquaintance, Lafayette
and Lehigh resume their ancient
rivalry and Penn State invades
Pittsburgh in other ranking Eastern
games. Harvard Preps for next
Saturdays date with Yale by op-
posing Boston University and q
Brooklyn-Kings Point fray rounds
out the major schedule.
In addition to the two title"
games in the Western Conference,
Minnesota's Gophers try to avoid
a fifth straight loss against Wiscon-
sin and Illinois goes to the mat with
Northwestern. Iowa had a nom
conference engagement at Nebraska
Alabama rolls toward the Rose
Bowl climax by playing Pensacola
Navy and Mississippi State faces
its home State rival, Mississippi. in
an outstanding contest. Clemson
meets Georgia Tech and Auburn
faces Louisiana Tech.
Baylor will be at home to South
ern Methodist in a Southwestern
Conference clash, Washington meets
Washington State in Pacific Coast
tussle and New Mexico concludes
its season against Texas Tech.
In the only game of Importance
played last night, Miami (Fla.),
with one eye cooked toward a pos
sible Orange Bowl bid, trounced
Michigan State, 21-7, before 21,327.