The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-09-22
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 GETS START
 Al WEEKEND
By RUSS NEWLAND

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 22 ,R- Far Western football launches the 1947 season on full scale this week end following few skirmishes last week.
 Navy and California, meeting at Berkeley, headline the pigskin pa rade. The first appearance of the Middies is expected to attract banner crowd of possibly 79000. The Bears of California got the jump on their rivals from the Naval Academy by beating Santa Clara. 33-7 ast Saturday The win was m inaugural triumph for Lynn Pap- py) Waldorf
 First of the seasons intersectional clashes on the West Coast Friday nlsc.t will pit the University of Iowa against the University of Cali icrnia at Los Angeles. defending conference champion and Rose Bowl victim of Illinois last New Years Day
 iowa NS. tNLA Iowa, regarded as a Big Nine dark horse club this season, got into ac- tion last week by walloping North Dakota State 59-0 and will line up in Los Angeles favored over the U. c. L. A. Bruins, making their initial start. The Bruins have added some ct t,H sp fo u- orite of coast conference coaches to retain the league title.
 Weekend Schedule
 Aside fIc:::.: .:.c Navy California encounter, other top Saturday games include:
 Texas vs. Oregon at Eugene, sec ond of a home and home series interrupted by the war Tn l94l, the University of Texas gave the visiting Oregon team 717 trounc- ing and with an apparent under wraps 33-0 win over Texas Tech last Saturday. appears ready to in wade the Pacific Northwest in vic- torious fashion. Oregon last week had to come from behind to out point Montana State College, 27-l4. Southern Methodist vs. Santa Clara at San Francisco. The team from Texas, said to be charged with a passing attack as usual, will be favored to beat a Santa Clara club that performed in somewhat ragged style while losing to California by 26 points.
 North vs. South At Los Angeles, Washington State vs. Southern California, the latter choice in the conference rate this year Washington State met Penn State at Hershey. Pa, last week and returns home on the short end of 27-6 scoreboard count. The use, Trojans make their first start as the fayorites. It is a conference game.
 University of Idaho vs. Stanford
 
 season with a 27-7 win over College of Puget Sound, a minor opponent, but will bump into topside compe- tition against Stanford, loaded with backfield talent Another confer ence contest
 Oregon State Travels oregon State College, third place : choice in the preseason conference Selections, travels to Salt Lake City i for non conference intersectional with University of Utah. Most West 1 Coast observers favor Oregon State but a Saturday surprise with Utah as the upsetter is not out of order i to expect
 St. Mary's Gaels, fly to Honolulu to met the University of Hawaii this Saturday. It will be in the nature of homecoming for the Gaels' two star backfielders. Herman Wedemey- CT and Charles Cordeiro. both from Honolulu. The Hawaii team is a scrappy outfit every season.
 Touchdown Twins
 Yesterday the Gaels. seeking to conceal as much of their attacking strength as possible, used mainly reserves to beat Portland Univer- r;t,, oc 12 T-l,a IJaupaiio,, 4n,,oI