The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-11-08
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 Pleoses All

New YOfk, NOV U~-lUPD=On D~ day minus one for unbeaton Army and Notre Dame, the capriclous betting odds which ekltted Ike a nervous bridegroom all week settled today on on even-up, take your pick bAsls for the football classie og the year which should settle the nae tlonal championship at Yankee
 Georgia (e.o) ana u.cb.A. Ce-o), the remaining two in Q tight little group of four major teams stlll uAs
 defeated and united, aso are In action Saturday and key games are coming up In every conference race but the ArmysNotre Dame game tops everything.
 Georgia was held e 2s point iAvorite over Florida C0.S) and U.CL.A. was rated ct 90 points over oregon t4.i-iD in its parade toward the Rose Bowl.
 shift on Bad News
 For a few brief hours, D-Day for the Cadets and the Irish began to look like Davis-day to New York's vast subway alumni who usually stick to Notre Dame even in the darkest years.
 When the word came East that Notre Danes Johnny Lujack had sprained his ankle in practice, Army switched from an underdog to half point favorite for the subway loyalists have been exposed to scanperlng Glenn Davis of Army long enough to fear him above all others.
 Davis, with able assistance from fullback Felix (Doc) Blanchard, led the Irish routs of 59 to o and 4s to o in i944 and i945 as the Cadets hammered together their victory streak which now stanus ct % straight.
 shortly after Lujack ran through @ % minute scrimmage at South Bend, Ind, without a trace of a limp. however, the oddsnakers were forced to wipe out that half-point spot to the Irish and made it 6 to 5 and take your pick.
 Risk Perfect League Marks
 Rice in the Southwest, Tennessee in the Southeastern, Oklahoma in the Big Six, William and Mary and North Carolina in the Southern Conference ali risk perfect league records Saturday.
 Rice 5.D was e lS point favorite over Arkansas (4-2-D in e defense of it's conference lead. Oklahoma (5-0, undefeated in the Big Six, rated IA points over fast improving Kansas (4-2.D and North Carolina (4-D was held at five and one-half points over William and Mary (6-D.
 Tennessee C5-D, tied with Georgia at 2-0 for the Southeast ern Conference lead, was a 20 point favorite oyer Mississippi (2-5).
 BIG NTNE-With league-leading Illinois idle-Northwestern (4-l-D battles Indiana (4-2 to keep Q toe. hold on its title chances and rated a six point favorite. Wisconsin was six and one half over Iowa. Min- nesota was three and one half over Purdue in other league games, Ohio State, host to Pittsburgh, was given a 20-point bulge and Michi- gan was held at 27 points over Michigan State in non-conference games.
 sOUTHwEsr-Texas Cs-D, was a 1e-point favorite over Baylor Q-4) and Southern Methodist a. 3-D had Q half-point margin on Texas A. and M. (3-4). Tulsa's spot" to Oklahoma A. and M. jumped to 20 points on word that Bob Fenimore would not be able to play for the Oklahoma Aggies in this game between Southwest in- 
 PACIFIC COAST CONFERENCE Southern California (4-0, beaten once in the conference, had l4 point margin over California (2-D, Stanford (3-2-D rated seven points over Washington (2-0 and Oregon State (3-lsD was 20 over Idaho (O-6).
 The. secondary feature in the East pits. Pennsylvania. beaten by Princeton last week, against Col nmbia at New York favored by l8 | points. Cornell was l3 over Syra- cuse, Penn State l3 over Temple, Colgate at Holy Gross even and | Yale IS over Brown.