Evening star., 1947-10-28
Notre Dame Regains
mo. III. ). Rankinq;;
Michigan Second
By Bob Grub
Assecioted Press Sports Writer

Notre Dame, still toying with the
opposition as 1t moves toward the
November meeting with Army. was
back as No. l college football team
of the country today on the basis OF
returns from the weekly Associated
Press poll.
After giving the Irish second bill
ing to Michigan for two weeks
straight, the Nations sports writers
voted Frank Leahy's men their old
familiar first-place ranking and
dropped the Wolverines to the rum
nerup position.
Seekers after trends might have
found something significant In the
way the top 10 stacked up this week.
Those who like to compare T against
single wingback in arguing the
merits of the respective offensive
formations would find $3.50 split.
Notre Dame, Texas, Southern Cal,
Georgia Tech and Army are the T
adherents in the list, Texas having
converted just this season. The
other fve-Michigan, Pennsylvania,
Penn State, Southern Methodist and
Duke-use the single wing predom-
inantly, although Michigan occa-
sionally employs the T.
Irish Win Fourth Straight.
Notre Dame, choice of the writer's
as the top team of 1916, had started
off in the same spot this year. The
Irish slipped past Iowa, 21-o, last
week for their fourth straight victory
and, still supposedly playing under
wraps" headed for Saturdays meet
ing with Navy.
Michigan's narrow squeak in pull
ing a 1876 victory from Minnesota
out of the fire apparently lowered
the voters estimation of the, VOL
verines. Last week they garnered
lat of 1853 first place votes. This
time they collected only SO while
Notre Dame was awarded 78 of the
1875 ballots.
The most extensive weekly poll
in many years gave Notre Dame a
point score of 1,734 90 points for
a first place ballot, 9 for second, 8
for third, etc.. Michigan's total
was ,689. Texas remained in third
place with 1876 as a result Of the
Longhorns' triumph over Rice.
S. M. u. and Duke Move Up.
Two new tenants appeared among
the top 10, with Southern Methodist
and Duke supplanting California and
Illinois. s. M. us Mustangs climbed
from 18th to eighth on TO win
over U. c. L. A. and now come face
to face with Texas Saturday to de-
eide the Southwest Conference title.
Dukes 1876 conquest of Wake Forest
moved the Blue Devils from 18th to
ninth in preparation for their clash
with sixth-place Georgia Tech this
week.
Pennsylvania success over Navy
showed the Quakers from eighth to
fourth. Princeton, which upset
Penn last year, has chance to
knock down the Red and Blue rating
on Saturday, but even Tiger Coach
Charley Caldwell isn't counting on
the same luck two years running.
| Southern California, which takes
on thrice beaten Washington Satur-
day, zoomed from 10th to fifth place
on the basis of its 1914 whipping
of California. The defeat dropped
Pappy Waldorf's Golden Bears from
No. 4 spot to 14th., Unbeaten Penn
State climbed from ninth to seventh
off its 21-14 verdict over previously
undefeated West Virginia.
Army Drops to Tenth.
Army, still smarting from the
21-20 setback by Columbia that
ended the Cadets nonlosing streak
after 80 games, tumbled from sixth
place to 10th, just a notch ahead
Of Illinois, Saturday victim of Pur-
due. Illinois and Michigan collide
in the key game for the Big Nine
title this week, while Army draws
an apparent breather in Washing
ton and Lee
Team standings with points fig
ured on a 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis
first place votes in parenthesis)