Evening star., 1950-10-21
Biggest Noise Is Due
In Midwest With -Four
Snappy Games on Tap
BY the Associoted Press

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NEW YORK. Oct. 21.-The COL
lege football spotlight swings to-
day to widely scattered gridirons.
providing nothing in the way Of
an No. / battle of Titans
unless 1t be the tussle between
Southern Methodist and Rice at
Houston.
From a sectional viewpoint, the
biggest noise is expected in the
Midwest. where four interesting
struggles are carded.
The University of Washington
HuSkies take on Illinois at Memo
rial Stadium in Champaign, Ill.
Washington, undefeated and
united and rated the dark horse
of the Pacific Coast Conference,
will be anxious to regain prestige
for West Coast football.
The Illini, beaten by Wisconsin.
7-6. nevertheless regard this years
club the best since the champion
ship outfit of 1916. Illinois de-
feated UCLA last week, 14-6, and
would like to get another crack at
the Rose Bowl New Years Day.
Wisconsin Plays Michigan.
Wisconsin. winner of three
straight, meets tough number in
Michigan at Ann Arbor. while
Ohio State and Minnesota clash
at Minneapolis. Once mighty
Notre Dame meets a dangerous
rival, Indiana, at Bloomington.
At Los Angeles. the meeting be-
tween Rose Bowl-minded Stanford
and UCLA tops the Far Western
program. California, unbeaten
along with Stanford, should make
it five in a row by taking Oregon
State at Berkeley.
In the South, capacity record
house of $4,000 is due to sit in at
Knoxville to see Alabama and
Tennessee have it out. The win
ner, provided there are no further
slipups, probably will land in a
major bowl game.
Another top Southern contest
finds Vanderbilt putting its un-
sullied record against Florida at
Nashville.
In the East, the Ivy League
leaders-Yale and Cornell-have
big date at Ithaca, N. Y, with the
unbeaten Big Red favored to hand
Yale its first loss.
Breathers for 2 Top Teams
Pennsylvania meets Columbia at
New York in another game that
usually produces fireworks.
The Southern Conference lead
will be at stake when George
Washington plays at Wake Forest,
and another interesting league tilt
finds North Carolina State tang
ling with Maryland at College
Park.
AS for the Nations No. l and
2 teams, Army and Oklahoma,
they get breather. 1t should be
like taking candy from a baby for
Army against Harvard at Cam
bridge. The same goes for Okla
homa versus Kansas State at
Norman, Okla.
In the Southwest Conference,
the Rice-SMU night game heads
The program. A victory is neces-
sity for SMU to retain its No. 3
national ranking. Texas, still a
power despite it's loss to Okla
homa, entertains Arkansas at
Austin. while at College Station,
Texas Christian plays Texas A.
and M
Kentucky Meets villanova.
Kentucky, the No. 4 team,
travels to Philadelphia to meet
Villanova. while Southern Cali
fornia meets Navy at Baltimore
in another intersectional clash.
Playing on muddy Chatta-
nooga field. the North Texas State
Eagles scored on a pass in the
closing seconds to defeat Chatta-
nooga, 1914. Eagle Quarterback
Zeke Martin fired a 12-yarder to
Jim Stuart for the payoff touch
down.
In another thriller that was de-
cided with four minutes to go,
Hardin Simmons edged University
of Houston at Abilene, Tex, 14-13.
Bob Blair sped the final As yards
of 60-yard drive and Bill Col
man made the conversion good
to settle the issue.
In other games San Francisco
whipped San Jose State, 27-o, and
Hawaii thumped College Of Idaho,
43-l4.