Evening star., 1946-10-25
Army, n. D., Texas Hit
Rough Spots in Drive
For Mythical Title
By Austin BeoImeor
Associated Press Sports Writer


NEW YORK, Oct. 25.-Racing
with surprising rapidity toward the
day when sectional champions and
bowl opponents will be determined
the college football season reaches
the halfway mark this week end
with the more important attractions
distributed equitably throughout
the land.
In the East, Midwest and South
west the three outstanding candi-
dates for National honors-Army
Notre Dame and Texas-win be
risking their perfect records to-
morrow against what easily could
be the toughest opposition any OF
them has been called upon to face
this year.
Army's Black Knights, bent on
running their three-year victory
string to an even two dozen, collide
in the Polo Grounds here with
Duke team that while batting only
500 in four games, now is clicking
with new-found power and pointing
for an upset.
Notre Dame, meanwhile, moves
into Iowa City, where the Irish
never have won, to battle Iowa S
Hawkeyes, the team that slipped a
1870 stranglehold on Indiana last
week while Notre Dame was taking
a rest.
Texas Facing Rugged Rice.
At Houston, Tex, a Rice team
rated as the only outfit IN the
Southwest Conference capable OF
spelling Texas bid for the league
crown, will challenge the invading
Longhorns.
In the South, Tennessee, rated
the fourth best eleven in the land
after its defeat of Alabama. tangles
at Knoxville with Wake Forest
which only last week suffered its
first less. Georgia, ranked seventh
visits Furman and Florida will be
at North Carolina, which holds the
No. 10 spot.
U. C. L. A., top team on the
Pacific Coast and fifth in the Ma
ton, will step out of conference
play to entertain Santa Clara. but
within the loop Southern Califor-
mia will go to Stanford to see which
remains the outstanding challenger
of the Bruins.
At Philadelphia, powerful Penn
sylvania. the country's No. 6 team
meets a Navy crew that has been
beaten three times running, but still
has ideas of knocking off some OF
the big boys.
Elsewhere in the East it will be
Cornell at Princeton, Coast Guard
at Yale, Columbia at Dartmouth,
Holy Cross at Harvard, Syracuse
at West Virginia, Boston at Brown
and George Washington at Rut-
gers.
Two Big Nine Clashes.
Two Big Nine tiIts destined to
share the spotlight with the Notre
Dame-IoWa tussle in the Midwest
will find Illinois at Michigan and
Minnesota at Ohio State. Three
other Big Nine teams have non
conference dates, Indiana at Ne
braska, Purdue at Pittsburgh and
Northwestern at home against the
College of the Pacific.
Oklahoma will be at Iowa State
in the only Big Six encounter. Other
Midwestern high lights will have
Southern Methodist at Missouri,
Arizona at Marquette, Cincinnati at
Michigan State and Kansas at Tulsa.
In the Southeastern Conference 1t
will be Kentucky at Alabama,
Auburn at Georgia Tech, Louisiana
State at Vanderbilt and Mississippi
State at Tulane, with Southern
Conference games sending North
Carolina State to Virginia Tech,
Richmond to Washington and Lee
and William and Mary to v. M. I.
Arkansas goes to Mississippi for a
nonleague battle and Texas A. & M
will be at Baylor for another South
west Conference go.
In the Rocky Mountain region,
Wyoming will be at Utah and New
Mexico at Colorado, while Denver
goes to Texas Tech for a night
game.
Topping tonight's program, Texas
Christian will be at Oklahoma A. g.
NJ, Vinanova at Boston College,
Drake at Detroit and Chattanooga
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