Evening star., 1946-11-09
Central Cuts School Grid Series to SWAY Scrap
Hot Football Riyalries
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Army-|rish Clash
j.. BY the Associatsd Press

AN6V O4bAA, ANSN. ANY fS
banned portable radios from Baker
Field today for the Penn Columbia
Ivy League sellout, SO this block Of
football fans will have to have its
ears attuned to the loudspeakers
for the period scores of that game"
That game" in case you just got
back from the moon and haven't
caught up on world affairs, is the
Yankee Stadium clambake where a
fortunate $4,000 will see Army and
Notre Dame battle it out for ma
tional championship honors. ..
There are, of course, scores Of
good grid contests from coast to
coast, but they are eclipsed today by
the meeting of the Irish and the
Cadets. And if the authorities at
other colleges haven't laid down the
same restrictions they have at Co.
lumbia, the Army -Notre Dame game
will have the spectators ears if not
the eyes in all stadia.
The Penn Columbia clash is the
Easts No. 2 Offering. with the
Quakers aiming to climb back near
er to the third-place rating in the
Nations top 10 they lost when
they were upset by Princeton last
week. Leadership in the Ivy League
also hinges somewhat on this game.
Georgia Meeting Florida.
Unbeaten and united Georgia Is
seeking to retain its No. ranking
in taking on winless Florida, while
the University of California at Los
Angeles figures to guard its fourth
place position in its meeting with
Oregon.
Leading contenders for other
conference titles are billed with
rivals of traditional Importance.
The Louisiana State-Alabama game
at New Orleans should go far to-
ward settling L. S. us aspirations to
the Southeastern Conference crown.
Topping a three-game Western
Conference card, Northwestern and
defending champion Indiana clash
before an expected 10000 in Evans
ton. Each needs victory to keep
its Big Nine title hopes alive. Iowa
goes to Wisconsin for showdown OF
the circuits 500 performers while
Purdue and Minnesota struggle to
elude the cellar.
Illinois, current pace-setter in the
conference, is idle. Ohio State gets
an expected breather for its big
battle with the nlini next Saturday
by taking on Pittsburgh at Colum-
bus. In another non-conference
scrap. Michigan entertains Michi-
gan State.
! Big Game for Oklahoma.
Missouri, leading the Big Six, COM
pletes non-conference campaign
ing against invading Colorado of the
Big Seven. Oklahoma, which meets
Missouri next week in an all-im-
portant game, tangles with Kansas
at Lawrence.
/ The Southern Conference cham
pionship could be decided at Rich
mond, Va, where William and Mary
unbeaten and united in league play
cilCUullUClS INO4 IA Val O1AAAds P1S
season favorite.
i North Carolina State, conqueror
of Duke and Wake Forest, goes to
Nashville for a game with Wander
bilt. Tennessee entertains Missis-
sippi in Southeastern Conference
engagement.
i In the Southwestern Conference
pace-setting Rice goes to Little Rock
for a game with Arkansas that may
, decide the circuit title.
| Some of the standouts in the East
besides the PENN Columbia attrac-
tion, are the ancient Harvard
Dartmouth encounter, Cornell's ira.
ditional meeting with Syracuse
Brown VS.. Yale. Virginia at Prince
ton. Colgate and Holy Cross and
Georgetown Boston College.
In the Rocky Mountain area and
the Far West, the attractions are
Brigham Young VS.. Utah State,
Southern California and California
Washington stanford, Idaho Oregon
State and the intersectional Kansas
State-San Francisco contest.