Evening star., 1950-10-28
Big Red Is Slim Choice
Over Tigers in Clash
|0f Unbeaten Teams
BY the Associated Press

You have to 60 back a long time
to the day when the Ivy League
supplied the feature game of a
Saturday right in the middle of
the football season. But this is it.
Cornell's Big Red and the Tigers
meet in Princeton, both sporting
unblemished records.
Southern Methodist, the top
team in the country, took the day
off, while Army and Oklahoma,
Nos. 2 and 3. respectively. went up
against foes expected to roll over
at the sight of the powerhouses.
A crowd Of about $4,000 was ex-
pected to jam Palmer Stadium for
the Cornell Princeton contest-the
last meeting Of the season between
two major undefeated, united
teams. 1t also will have a distinct
bearing on the Ivy League race,
with the winner probably emerging
with loop honors.
Teams Well Matched.
Cornell entered the game a 1h-
point favorite. That's how close
these ancient foes were rated.
The contest will be largely one
of defense VS.. offense. Lefty
James Cornell eleven has been
singularly successful in holding
the opposition in cheek, while
Princeton's speciality has been
plowing through the enemy.
Army visited New York for a
clash with Columbia, the last
team to beat them. That was in
1947 and in the interim Army
has gone "a games without q loss.
Columbia doesn't seem capable of
pulling an upset of such major
proportions twice in four years.
Oklahoma's Sooners went after
their 26th victory in a row against
Iowa State at Ames. Oklahoma s
reserves were scheduled to earn
their letters in this one.
Imagine the embarrassment of
Notre Dame II the once mighty
Irish were 5A-point underdogs
against Michigan State. Who can
remember the last time anyone
was favored over Notre Dame?
You're an old timer If you do.
Conference Races Take Shape.
Otherwise. around the country,
the conference races were taking
shape. In the Big Ten, Ohio State,
shooting for its second straight
title, met Iowa, winner over
Purdue last week. today. Michi-
gan, which may fight it out with
the Buckeyes, played Minnesota.
In the Southeastern Confer
ence, Kentucky. No. 4 in the cur
rent Associated Press Poll, went
for its seventh straight against
Georgia Tech, while Maryland
took on Duke and Clemson bat
tied Wake Forest In the Southern
Conference.
Texas. with slight hopes of edg-
ing Southern Methodist for South
west Conference honors, engaged
Rice in final. tuneup before the
big one with the Mustangs next
week.
Stanford. one Of the West
Coasts preseason hopes for the
Rose Bowl. hoped to rebound
against Washington after its hu-
initiating deefat at the hands OF
UCLA last week. California. also
in the running for Pee leadership,
played host to st. Mary's.
The feature Big Seven struggle
pitted Kansas against Nebraska
at Lawrence.
Other Major Games.
Other major games included:
Northwestern-Wisc sconsin at
Madison, UCLA-Purdue at Lafay-
cite. Tennessee VS.. Washington
and Lee at Knoxville, William and
Mary at North Carolina, Tulane
at Auburn. Texas Christian at
Mississippi, Vanderbilt at Ar
kansas. Missouri at oklahoma A.
and NJ, Navy at Penn, San Fran
cisco at Fordham, Oregon at
Southern California, Baylor at
Texas A. and NJ, Colgate at
Brown. Colorado at Utah, Dart
mouth at Harvard, Denver at Ari-
zona, Furman at Florida, Holy
Cross at Yale. Idaho at Washing
ton State, Lafayette at Bucknell,
Miami F'la) at Pittsburgh, Mon
tana at Oregon State, Mississippi
State at Alabama. New Mexico at
Wyoming. Rutgers at Lehigh,
Syracuse at Boston u, Santa
Clara at Marquette, Temple at
Penn State, Virginia at West Vir-
ginia.