The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-21
TwelveTeams
Undefeated
At Half Mark
Thirteen Squads Clipped
From List In Week.
End Contests
ARMY LEADS
North Carolina State Is
Listed Among Pigskin
Leaders In Nation
BY ROSE

the world series just out of the
way it's hard to realize that the
Collegiate grid campaign already
is at the halfway mark and that the
list of major unbeaten teams is
simmer than Ted Williams series
batting average.
Only IL elevens have managed
to go unconquered SO far although
three of the dozen have ties to
mar their records.
Another 10 were clipped for the
first time over the past weekend
as the biggest series of upsets of
the season shook the football seis-
mograph.
Heading the pigskin parade with
perfect performances are Army,
Notre Dame, Pennsylvania, Har-
ward, Texas, Tennessee, Georgia,
North Carolina, Oregon and North
western.
Army's grid goliaths knocked
Columbia's light Lions out of the
select class with a resounding 48-14
triumph IS Doc Blanchard and
Gem Davis paced the Cadets to
their fifth triumph of the campaign
and their 23rd over two and a half
seasons.
Notre Dame was idle but Penn
sylvania blasted Virginia 400 for
the Cavaliers first licking of 1916.
Harvard slaughtered Coast Guard
$50; Texas opened its Southwest
Conference schedule with a 200
win over Arkansas foc the Razor
backs initial loss; Tennessee sent
its Rose Bowl hopes soaring with
a 1910 conquest of the hitherto I'M
beaten Alabama Red Elephants in
a Southeastern Conference tilt;
Georgia polished off Oklahoma A.
& NJ, 1918; North Carolina State
gave Wake Forest it's first taste
Of defeat with a 1916 Southern Con-
ference victory; U. c. L. A. held
onto their Rose Bowl edge with a
1876 squeeze over California.
North Cardinals improving Tar
Heels gave Navy another dose. of
defeat, Ella; Oregon's perfect mark
was blasted by Washington State
which managed to grab an 90 tie;
and NorthWestern's u~nheralded
Wildcats claWed out a 14-14 dead
lock with mighty Michigan.
Detroit destroyed Tulsa's dreams
of an all-conquering campaign Fri
day night with a 2O-l4 upset and
Penn State, Auburn, Louisiana
State, Vanderbilt, Kansas, Rich
mond and Utah also licked the
wounds of their initial defeats.
Michigan State staged a rousing
rally to whip Penn State 1916;
Tulane smashed. Auburn 800;
Georgia Tech ambushed L. S. u,
21-7; Kentucky's r%ejuvenated Wild
cats clawed Vanderbilt 1917; Ne
braska nosed out Kansas 1914;
Duke walloped Richmond 41-0; and
Denver rocked Rocky Mountain
form by vanquishing Utah, 20-14.
On the basis of the point adds
laid down by the none too generous
~hookmakers, other surprises OF
Saturday included Browns 20-1a
Ivy League win over Dartmouth;
Little Louisiana Techs rs victory
over Mississippi; Iowa's 1870 Big
Nine banking of Indiana; SYRIA
cuse's 21-12 triumph over Holy
ICross; Cornelrs 6-6 deadlock with
Yale in another Ivy engagement
and Purdue's 14-14 tie with Ohio
State.
The leaders by sections:
East-Army, Pennsylvania.
South-Tennessee, Georgia, North
Carolina, North Carolina State and
Alabama.
SouthWest-Texas.
MidWest-Notre Dame, North.
western, Michigan and Oklahoma.
Far West-U. c. L. A.
Next weeks schedule is topped
by Dukes tilt with Army at New
York; Notre Dame at Iowa; Illinois
at Michigan; Navy at Pennsyl.
vania; Wake Forest at Tennessee;
Texas at Rice, Santa Clara at U. c.
|. A.. and Southern California al
Stanford.
Other major games for Satu--
cay include:
East Cornell at Princeton;
Coast Guard at Yale; Columbia al
Dartmouth; Holy Cross at Har'
ward; Syracuse at West Virginia
Boston U. at Brown; George Wash
:ngton at Rutgers; Purdue at Pitts
burgh.
South - Georgia at Furman;
Florida at North Carolina; N. c
State at V. P. l.; Richmond a
l VIZ shington and Lee; William ant
Mary at Virginia Military; Ken
lucky at Alabama; Auburn a
Georgia Tech; L. S. U. at Wander
bilt; Mississippi State at Tulane
and Arkansas at Mississippi.
Southwest - Texas A. & M. a
Baylor; Denver at Texas Tech.
E Midwest - Indiana at Nebraska