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Saturday Roundup

| Saturday Roundup
NEW YORK, Oct. II IN
The nations leading college
football tear.s are playing in
their own leagues this week aft
er the customary early season
encounters with opponents from
distant points. And, strangely
enough, the indications are that
most Of them will find their
tasks fairly easy.
From the East's Ivy League
to the Pacific Coast Conference,
the games that get the top bill
ing involve members of the
same circuit. But in almost
every case the team that has
been built up as a coming
champ encounters a rival whose
reputation already has been
slightly furnished.
The most notable exceptions
probably are Vanderbilt VS.
Kentucky, a meeting of two sur
prise teams, and Kansas VS..
Oklahoma with the Texas-Ar-
kansas tussle at Memphis,
Tenn, running close behind.
Vanderbilt wasn't given much
of a tumble in preseason ra-
tings of the Southeastern Con-
ference, but it already has
whipped Northwestern, Ala
bama and Mississippi and
shares the Conference lead with
equally = unher aided Georgia
Tech. Kentucky, supposedly
building for the future, dropped
it's opener to Mississippi then
popped up with three straight
victories, including a 26-0 deci-
sion over Georgia.
Kansas and Oklahoma were
named as probable contenders
for the Big Six tit'e . 'hev
still are although Oklahoma
took a 34-14 humping from Tex
as last week md Kansas played
a scoreless opener against Tex
as Christian.
Texas, riding high after four
decisive victories over non-con-
ference foes, plays it's first
league game against Arkansas,
which was figured as Rice's
leading rival for the title before
the season began. Arkansas
dropped it's first conference
game to the surprising Baylor
Bears last week.
On the other side, mighty
Michigan, chosen by an over
whelming vote as the nations
No. l team this week, starts it's
bid for the Big Nine Title
against twice-beaten Northwest
ern. Illinois, the Rose Bowl
champ, played a scoreless tie
against Army last week and
now encounters a victorious but
defensively weak Minnesota
team. Notre Dame, the other
Midwestern powerhouse, takes
on Nebraska, which has lost
twice.
The East's Big Three, Army,
Pennsylvania and Penn State,
all should have it easy. Army
seeks its 32nd straight game
without a loss against Virginia
Tech; Penn meets beaten and
injury-riddled Columbia and
Penn State faces a weak SYRIA
cuse club. Yale, after two Ivy
League triumphs, faces Wiscon-
sin, which took a drubbing from
California.
In the south, unbeaten Geor-
gia Tech plays Auburn and Will
liam and Mary, southern con
ference leader, NETS North Car
DINA, the preseason favorite
which has had nothing but trou-
BILE, climaxed by the still I'M
settled question of Charley JUS
tees eligibility. Alabama VS..
Tennessee, ordinarily one of the
seasons big games, is just an
other. clash between twice-beat-
en- teams.
California, which bounced up
from nowhere to become the
Pacific Coast Conference favo-
rite, meets Washington State in
its first league game. The Cou-
gars haven't beaten anyone by
Idaho. Last years winner, U.
C.L.A., meets Stanford and
highly-regarded Southern Cali
fornia plays Oregon State.
Utah, top team in the Rocky
Mountain Big Seven, faces Den
yer.
Other major games from
coast to coast include Navy
Cornell, Holy Cross-Harvard,
Brown = Dartmouth, Colgate
Princeton and Purdue-Boston
University in the East; Missis-
sippi-Tulane, Florida = North
Carolina State, Duke-M Maryland,
Washington and Lee-Virginia
and Duquesne Mississippi State
in the South; Iowa-Ohio State,
Pittsburgh : Indiana, Kansas
~State-Missouri, Iowa State
Michigan State and San Fran
cisco-Marquette in the Mid