Evening star., 1946-09-20
1aIent-FiIIed Schools
Out 10 ShaHer Reign
OF Service Teams
BY Austin BeoImeor
Assoeioted Press Sports Writer

Many of the Nations collegiate
football teams, including some Of
the championship favorites, raise
the curtain tomorrow on a season
destined to surpass all of its prede-
cessors in the matter of interest
excitement and quality of play as
we'll as receipts at the gate.
There is hardly a team in the
land that isn't admittedly loaded
to the locker room with playing
talent and preseason. ticket sales in
dicate that the fans are going tc
turn out in record numbers to see
the fun.
| This is the season when the
teams which have watched Army
and Navy monopolize the spotlight
in recent years can be expected tc
begin chopping the service acad-
emieS down to their own size-a
task made simpler by the departure
OF some players who no longer want
to mix football with a military
career.
Army, still the top team of the
country until proved otherwise
cracks open its tough schedule this
week end, as do trio of West
Points most serious challengers for
national honors-Alabama, Illinois
and Oklahoma A. and M.
Army Takes on Villanova.
The Cadets will begin their search
for a third straight all-victorious
season tomorrow afternoon by en-
tertaining tough Villanova team
which stole march on most of the
others last week by knocking off
the United States Merchant Marine
Academy, 40-6
Illinois, reinforced by the return
of Buddy Young and a benchful of
other service stars, will provide the
first test for Wes Fesler at Pitts
burgh in game setting the stage
for next months anticipated thrill
er between the Illini and Notre
Dame.
Oklahoma A. and MS Sugar Bowl
champions, candidates for a Rose
Bowl bid as long as they have Bob
Fenimore, go after their 10th
straight triumph against Denvers
invading Big Seven titleholders,
while Alabama. Rose Bowl victor
and Southeastern favorite, meets
Furman at Birmingham tonight.
At Austin. Tex, Texas Universitys
Southwest Conference favorites run
smack into a Missouri outfit that
has been tabled as the best in the
Big Six loop. Another contest in
volving title threats from the same
two leagues sends Texas Christian
into Kansas City to battle Kansas
at night
Ole Miss Battles Kentucky.
Mississippi and Kentucky, both in
the process of rebuilding, get to-
gether at Lexington tomorrow night
in the first Southeastern Conference
game of the year. Other pairings
in the South find Presbyterian at
Clemson, Erskine at Davidson, Ran
dolph-Macon at Richmond and
CataWby at V. M l.
Besides Illinois, four other teams
from the Big Nine open against non
conference opponents, all at home.
These starters send Cincinnati to
Indiana, North Dakota State to
Iowa, Marquette to Wisconsin and
Miami of Ohio to Purdue.
Three other Southwest Conference
teams also entertain nonleague OPP
position, with North Texas State at
Texas A. and NJ, Southwestern of
Texas at Baylor and Northwest
Louisiana State at Arkansas.
Other top games in the wide open
spaces will find Tulsa at Wichita,
Arizona State at New Mexico and
West Texas at Texas Tech tomorrow
night
Iowa State of the Big Six meets
Colorado of the Big Seven at
Boulder, while Colorado State will
be at Wyoming and Peru State at
Colorado College.
In the East, Lehigh will be at
Kings Point and Otterbein at West
Virginia to round out a rather
skinny lineup.
The Far West will delay its gen.
eral opening, although st. Marys
tangles with Portland at San Fran
cisco on SUNDAY.