Evening star., 1947-10-20
Dozen Major Eleven!
Remain Unbeaten as
Eight Fall From List
By tho Associated pr...

NEW YORK, Oct 2O.-A dozen
major college football teams still
have all-victorious records TODAY
but several will have to do some
fancy stepping Saturday to keep
from joining eight others which
were tumbled from the ranks of the
unbeaten and united last week end.
Such previously undefeated elevens
as Minnesota, Vanderbilt, Yale,
Maryland, william and Mary, Mar
quette, Boston College and Muhlen-
berg dropped out of the all-vic-
torious class and now can concen-
trate on returning the compliment
to such other hopefuls as may cross
their paths.
Among the top flight teams whose
perfect records survived the week
end are Michigan, Notre Dame,
Texas, California, Georgia Tech,
Pennsylvania, Penn State, Southern
Methodist, Baylor, Wake Forest,
Virginia and. West Virginia.
Probably the toughest chore i'm
mediately ahead for any Of this
select group Is that faced by the
Golden Bears of California, who
tangle with Southern California; =
unbeaten but once-tied Trojans at
Berkeley Saturday in one Of the
top games of the day.
Trojans Are Impressive.
California opened its bid for the
Pacific Coast Conference crown by
clipping Washington State, 21-6,
for its fifth straight triumph Satur-
day-A development considerably
less impressive than the 1876 hay
maker which Southern Cal landed
on Oregon State.
UCLA, the other team involved
in three-cornered scrap for the
coast title and Rose Bowl honors,
steps out of conference play to meet
the invasion of Southern Methodist,
which kept its slate clean by blank
ing Rice, 14-O, while UCLA was
trampling Stanford, 1916.
Other Western highlights Satur-
day included Stanford at Washing
ton, Montana at Washington State,
Portland at oregon State, Brigham
Young at Utah State, Colorado at
Colorado A. and NJ, Utah at Wyom-
ing, Texas Tech at Denver and
Tulsa at Nevada.
Texas, which downed Arkansas,
21-6, to clear its first Southwest
conference hurdle, goes after it's
sixth win of the year against Rice
at Austin and Baylor invades Texas
A. and M. in quest of its fifth in
a row.
Michigan Meets Minnesota.
Michigan, looking more and more !
like the class of the country after
Northwestern, 1921, will
be at home against Minnesota, while
40-13 conqueror CT Mime
sofa and still unbeaten but once
tied, invades Purdue in Big Nine
Indiana and Northwestern hook
up at Northwestern in another Big
Nine test. Iowa, which tied Ohio
State, 1913, invades Notre Dame,
31-0 winner over Nebraska, and
which humbled Yale, 90,
Marquette in non-con-
ference tilts.
Kentucky, which ended Wander
bits unbeaten string. 14-0, travels
to Michigan State and Texas Chris
tian, 26-0; winner over Texas A. and
M, invades Oklahoma, held to a
1913 tie by Kansas. Missouri is at
Iowa State and Nebraska at Kansas
State in the Big Six.
Alabama and Georgia Clash.
Duke, which handed Maryland its
first loss, 1877, invades Wake Forest
to seek another win in the Southern
Conference. Alabama, after drop
ping Tennessee, 100, goes to Geor-
gia, Auburn to Tulane and Louis
lana State to Vanderbilt in the
loop.
Penn State and West Virginia
meet at State College in another
battle of unbeaten teams. Penn
State polished off Syracuse Satur-
day and West Virginia downed
N. Y. u, both by 400.