Evening star., 1951-10-05
Michigan State Game
Al Ohio State Heads
Imposing Grid Card
BY the Asseeioied Press

- BY the Assoeiated Press
The college football map Is
dotted with big games tomorrow
but the most important from a
national standpoint will be spread
before the paying customers at
Columbus, Ohio. and College Sta
ton, Tex.
A capacity crowd Of some 81
900 will jam Ohio Stadium at CO.
Ilumbus = where Michigan State
College puts its No. l national
rating on the line against an Ohio
State team touted as the best in
the Big Ten and a potential Rose
Bowl visitor. -
At College Station, another
Isell-out throng of about 10000
will take in the tussle at Kyle
Field between Oklahoma and
Texas A. and M. under the lights.
Oklahoma. voted the Nations No.
l team in the Associated Press
poll last fall. is favored to repeat
as the Big Seven Conference
champion. while the Texas Aggies
have high hopes Of coping the
Southwest Conference crown.
Must" Game for Spartans.
In addition to Michigan State.
the other three are among the top
10 teams in the land. Oklahoma
was placed in the No. 4 spot in
the first weekly poll, while Ohio
State got No. Z ranking and Texas
A. and M. No. 10.
- The last. and only other time.
that Michigan State met Ohio
State was in 1928 years ago.
On that occasion. Michigan STATE
won. $500.
This is a must" game for
Michigan States Coach, Biggie
Mum. His Spartans have beaten
Oregon State and Michigan. A.
victory over the Buckeyes will
leave Notre Dame as the toughest
OBSTACLE to an unbeaten season.
Woody Hayes, in his first year
as Ohio State coach, is perhaps
thankful that Michigan State
isn't eligible for the Big Ten foot
ball championship until the 1858
season.
Oklahoma Packs Dynamite.
Oklahoma showed it packs plen-
ty OF dynamite. of its 49-7 victory
over William and Mary last week.
Coach Bud Wilkinson's Sooners
will be making their. first invasion
OF the Lone Star State in two
weeks. Next Saturday they have
no less than Texas at Dallas.
Coach Ray. George, line coach
last year at Southern California
has a hard-running set of backs
who will take plenty of stopping
The Aggies have won over UCLAI
and Texas Tech and will be out to
avenge 1923 defeat at the hands
OF Oklahoma last year.
Elsewhere on the gridiron front
are important conference clashes
and several big intersectional af-
fairs. California. No. 2 team this
week after pasting PENNSYLVANIA
entertains Minnesota at Berkeley
But chief interest on the Pacific
Coast tomorrow is in Seattle
where Southern California meets
Washington. Both have Rose
Bowl ambitions, since the new
rule prohibiting California from
repeating should it win the league
title.
Army at Northwestern.
Army's weakened forces 60 to
Northwestern. while always dan
gerous North Carolina visits Austin
to meet tough Texas. the Nations
No. 6 team.
Other intersectional games in
clude Stanford at Michigan,
Baylor at Tulane, Missouri at
Southern Methodist and Duke at
Tennessee against the No. 3 team
and Florida at Loyola of Los
Angeles and Rice at Louisiana
State, in two night games.
Georgia Tech goes against Ken
lucky at Lexington in a battle of
Southeastern Conference rivals,
with Georgia at Mississippi State
and Alabama at Vanderbilt.
Illinois, the Nations No. 8 outfit,
Wisconsin in a major
Big Ten fray. with Iowa at Purdue.
In the Southern Conference,
the No. 9 team in the
is home against George
Washington. Clemson plays at
night against North Carolina
State.
The East finds several big
games. chief among them Prince
ton at Navy, Dartmouth at Penn
sylvania. Cornell at Colgate, Har-
yard at Columbia, Fordham atl
Holy Cross and Penn State VS..
Villanova at Allentown.
Notre Dame Playing Tonight.
Notre Dame, a surprising No.
5 IN the rankings, takes on. De-
troit at Detroit tonight. Other
games tonight include Boston
University at Louisville, Boston
College vs.. Mississippi at Memphis
and Oklahoma A.. and M. VS..
Washington State at Spokane.
Other games. include: Texas
Christian at Arkansas, Kansas at
Colorado. Pittsburgh at Indiana,
Nebraska at Kansas State, Iowa
State at Marquette, Idaho State
VS.. Oregon State at Spokane, Ore
gon at College of Pacific, Furman
at South Carolina RI1fperS of