The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-26
Army, Motre Dame And Texas
In National Grid Spotlight
Duke Blue Devils, Iowa
Hawkeyes And Rice To
Furnish Opposition

AoilOl S-AIIIly.
Notre Dame and Texas-all slam
INTO opposition calculated to tell
them, and the fans, a great deal
ABOUT their pretensions.
is Army the invincible, all-pow-
erful team its supporters believe
1t to be? Are the Irish of Notre
Dame a gridiron scourage. Pre-
pairing to flay and destroy every
thing they meet? Are the Long
norns the greatest thing the south
west ever produced? Maybe we'll
find out tomorrow.
Army, seeking its Oath straight
victory almost certainly meets
one OF its most formidable open
ents OF the season in the Duke
Blue Devils, who are coming into
the Polo Grounds along with 5000
yelling North Carolinians fullv de-
termlned to check Davis, Blanch-
ard & Co.
Despite losses to Tennessee and
North Carolina State. Duke is sup
posed to be a much stronger team
than the Blue Devil eleven which
succumbed to the Cadets 1870 a
year ago. Wallace Wade, back
from the war, is coaching Duke
again, and it is or record that he
never has suffered worse than a
23-polnt defeat since he went to
Durham.
NOtre Dame
Notfe Dame, the DOGGY of the
midwest, figures to get a real
testing from Iowa S Hawkeyes, who
bounced Indiana around, IS to O,
a week ago. The game is being
played at Iowa City. where the
Irish never have won. If Coach
Frank Leahy has a climax run
ner hidden among his horde Of
Notre Dame ball carriers, it is
possible he might have to pull
him out for this one.
Texas, which has been running
more Or less wild up to now, meets
a Rice Institute team that was
highly touted even before the race
began, and which is said by Texas
operaticos to be thoroughly capa-
BILE of hating the speedy long
horns. If Texas wins this one, at
Houston, they say it's all over
and Coach Dana Bible can begin
receiving congratulations on a on
ference title.
Those are the three big games
upon which much of the nations
attention will be focused. but the
slate is full of other good ones,
especially in the south. Tennes-
see, voted the country's fourth
best team after it humbled Ala
bama last week, plays Wake For
est at Knoxville. Wake Forest
suffered its first defeat last week
at the hands of strong North Caro-
lima State, and should extend the
Volunteers. /
Georgia, voted seventh strongest
in the nation On its record, plays
at Furman. North Carolina, rated
No. 10, entertains FLORIDA.
Sharing the spotlight with the
Iowa-Notre Dame tussle in the
Midwest will be a brace of big
nine contests bringing together IL
linois and Michigan at Ann Arbor,
and Minnesota and Ohio State at
Columbus. Michigan and North
western are tied at present for
the conference leadership.
Indiana plays at Nebraska, Pur-
due at Pittsburgh, and NorthWes-
tern gets a breather at home
against the College OF the Pacific.
UCLA the big team on the Pa
cific Coast and rated No. 5 In the
nation, plays out of its conference
race for a week to entertain Santa
Clara, the Southern California Tro-
ians visit Stanford in the sections
biggest attraction.
Mayhem
Outside Of the Army-Duke sell
out. the East's headliner will be
the Mayhem fixture at Phlla-
deluhia. As the Mid6es have
been beaten three straight, the
game would appear to be OF m
terest chiefly for the lie it might
Give on PENIS strength. The
Ouakers are on Army's list later
on.
Other eastern games are Column
bia at Dartmouth, Holy Cross at
Harvard, Cornell at Princeton,
Boston at Brown. Syracuse at West
Virginia (Which meets Army next
Saturday., and George Washing
ton at Rutgers.
In the Southeastern conference
the debated Alabama eleven en-
tertains Kentucky, Auburn plays
at Georgia Tech, Louisiana State
at Vanderbilt and Mississippi at
Tulane. In the Southern confer
ence, North Carolina State plays
at Virginia Tech, Richmond at
Washington and Lee, and William
and Mary at VM1.
A Southwest conference title
game, eclipsed by the Texas-flce
duel, finds the Texas Aggles play
ing Baylor at Waco. The Arkansas
Razorbacks play Mississippi In a