Evening star., 1945-11-03
Nsote Dame With 83 900 Tops Gste-Puy;ng Grid Tits
Big Turnouis Slated
AT Traditional Games
All Over Nation
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
Navy and Notre Dame meet today
In a contest that could very well be
billed as semifinal match for the
national collegiate football cham
pionship
A crowd of some SO 900 that will
include Army Coach Earl Blaik and
his staff is expected to jam Cleve-
lands Municipal Stadium to see the
two lunbeaten and united titans
clash in the top game Of the week.
end program.
Blaik and his scouting staf prob
ably will get an eyeful of the two
teams Army will have to beat to
uphold its national supremacy. The
Irish and the Tars are rated even
for their star encounter and both
will have to shoot the works. Army
faces Notre Dame next Saturday in
the other semifinal that could prove
to be final II the Irish cop both
games, and Army and Navy are
scheduled to fight it out December l..
Last year Navy came up to the
Notre Dame game a twice beaten
aggregation while the Irish were un-
defeated. This campaign the Tars
have stumbled from game to game,
but have managed to win all five
of. their starts. Notre Dame, after
slow start against Illinois, has
picked up momentum with each
game, and looks an old-time Irish
powerhouse. The big question today
is whether the Middies will find
themselves, straighten out their r
kinks, and show the power that has
been expected of them from the
seasons start.
Other Gate Pulling Games.
Another big 80,000-plus gathering
is looked for in Los Angeles, where
the hitherto invincible Gaels of St.
Mary's collide with twice-beaten
Southern California eleven that
still is hoping to pull Rose Bowl
bid out of the fire. Washington's
Huskies, right now the Pacific
Coasts No. nominee for the Pasa-
dena playoff, with Al record, op-
pose Oregon. which has 2-3 slate.
Huge crowds also are expected at
Ann Arbor, where Michigan and
Minnesota will battle for the Little
Brown jug, and at Columbus, where
74,000 spectators probably will sit in
on the Ohio State-Northwestern
shindig.
The big games of the East are
draped with ivy. Columbia, the sole
unbeaten and united squad in the
conservative ivy league, will pack
IS 900 into Baker Bowl for the game
with a revamped Cornell eleven.
Some $4,000 will be on hand in
Franklin Field, where Princeton in
vades to play Pennsylvania. An
other 10000 throng is anticipated
at the Yale Bowl for the Eli" meet
ing with Dartmouth. Army gets
its last breather against the clawless
Villanova Wildcats at West Point,
and Syracuse and Penn State are
matched in another big Eastern tilt
Alabama, the South's top repre-
sentative, travels to Louisville for
an easy conference contest with
Kentucky, but Mississippi State. an
other Southeastern Conference team
with a clean slate, may find Tulane
a tough nut at New Orleans. Vir-
ginia, also undefeated and united.
tackles West Virginia. Other major
games in the South pair Duke and
Georgia Tech, Georgia and Chatta-
nooga, William and Mary and Mary
land, Virginia Tech and North Car
olina State, North Carolina and
Tennessee and Virginia Military and
Vanderbilt.
Big Tits in Midwest.
Besides the Michigan Minnesota,
and Ohio State Northwestern
the Midwest features Wis
consin VS.. Iowa, Indiana against
Cornell College OF Iowa, Pittsburgh
VS.. Purdue, Kansas State VS.. Iowa
State, Kansas VS.. Nebraska, Illinois
VS.. Great Lakes, Missouri VS.. Michi-
gan State and Oklahoma VS.. Texas
Christian.