The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-10-10
BIG Up5ETS IN FOOTBALL
 AT WEEKEND
(BY ASSOCIATED PRESS)

shaken with the defeat of Michi- gan by the Army, came to an end last Saturday and may get another jolt this week.
 Coach Frank Leahy of the Irish has tabbed the Southerners as the toughest assignment his athletes have faced in many a moon. He warned long ago that this is the game Notre Dame is most likely to | lose.
 Tulane has already bowled over | two of the stoutest elevens in its own bailiwick-Alabama by 28-14 and Georgia Tech 18-0. It won cas- fly over a breather foe Saturday brushing aside little Southeastern Louisiana, 400.
 Henry Franka, the man with the ive-man-line name who tutors the Green Wave, is regarded as one of the finest pointers in the business. He has pointed to this particular game.
 Notre Dame will te protecting one of the longest unbeaten streaks in modern football. The Irish have not been licked, though they've ex- perienced ties, since Great Lakes suhdued them in 1945. Last Satur- day the Irish, sparked by Emil Sit kc. romped over Purdue, 35-12
 OUTSIDERS MAYBE IN
 Not since Armys great wartime teams were rampant has anyone outside the Middle West had a look-in for National Champion ship honors.
 Notre Dame replaced Army as the No. 1 team in the Associated Press poll in 1946 and 1947. Michi- gan, which beat out Notre Dame in post-season poll in 1947, was de- clared the best team in the land last year
 Michigan, which topped the poll last week also, goes against North westerns Rose Bowl champions Saturday.
 In the first weekly poll of the year Notre Dame was ranked second and Tulane fourth.
 Two other high-placed elevens bang heads in a game that will vie with the South Bend attraction will be the Ohio Minnesota duel at Columbus, Ohio.
 These two teams are on the up surge in the Western Conference and are battling for the crown anc Rose Bowl bid. Minnesota was rat ed fifth last week and Ohio State Eleventh.
 Another game pits the eighth ano tenth ranked teams-Southern Cal ifornia and California at Berkeley
 ARMY COMING UP
 Other members of the top ter should have less rugged sailing Oklahoma, No. 3, plays Kansas North Carolina, No. 6, takes or Wake Forest. Army, No. ? last Weel but slated for higher station, in vades Harvard.
 Southern Methodist, ninth in tht list, plays night game with form idable Rice.
 Army's Black Knights of tht Hudson turned in one of theil greatest triumphs in stunning Mich igan, 21-7, before 97,235 at Am Arbor.
 A ten-point underdog, the Cadet! smashed for touchdown in the first two periods.
 It was Michigan's first defeat 1T 26 games.
 Michigan's foe this week, North western, bowed to Minnesota, 2l-7
 California remained unbeaten b. trouncing Wisconsin, 35-20.
 A real contender is Red Sanders UCLA team, which won it's fourtf straight game by teating Stanford 14-7.
 OAKIES GO ON
 Oklahoma continued down it. grinding way by whipping stou Texas eleven, 20-14. North Carolina kept it's record intact by downing South Carolina, 28-13.
 Other results included:
 East-Cornell B Harvard IA Dartmouth 3l, Holy Cross '; Bostor U. 40, Colgate 21; Brown 46. Rhode Island 0; Navy 28, Duke IA; Penn State 32, Boston College 2; Penf IA, Princeton 13; Pittsburgh zU West Virginia T; Yale 33, Columpis T.
 South-Auburn IA, Florida IA Georgetown 12, Wake Forest 6 Georgia Tech 36, Washington ane Lee o; Tennessee 39, Chattanooga ' Vanderbilt 28, Mississippi 27; Ken lucky 25, Georgia O; Mississipp State ?, Clemson ' (tie).
 Southwest-Baylo 35, Arkansas 13; Texas Christian 13, Indiana 6 Rice 55, New Mexico o; Louisiana State 34, Texas A and M 0.
 Midwest Illinois 20, Iowa IA Kansas 21. George Washington IA Michigan State IA, Maryland ' Missouri 27, Oklahoma A and M 2 Nebraska 13, Kansas State 6; Texa!