Evening star., 1951-10-15
Standings AP Football Poll Certain to Be Shufed This Week
1erps Due 10 Advance,
Along With Others
Among Second Five
by the Associated Pres.

Among Sec0nd Five
BY the Assoeiaisd Press
NEW YORK. Oct. l5.-Footbal
coaches used to say a good offens.
is the best defense. but that ole
saw doesn't seem to cut much woot
in 1851 college football.
Five major collage teams scoree
three touchdowns each and still
lost Saturday, while Washington
State lost even though 1t scored
five times in wild 1926 scramble
won by California. In fact. a sur.
vey Of 81 major college game.
showed a majority Of the losine
teams scored at least two touch.
downs. Only three of the games
ended in shutouts for the losers.
And when all the figures were
compiled. it was hard to see WHIT
would lead the parade in the Asso.
ciated Press weekly poll Of the
Nations top 10 teams.
Leaders Squeak Through.
Michigan State. top-ranked las
week just ahead Of California, like
California had tough time In
what figured to be an easy game
and barely got past Marquette
20-14. The powerful Spartans
apparently suffering a letdown
from their big game with Ohio
State a week before. trailed 14-6
in the fourth period, but managed
to score twice, largely due to the
passing of Quarterback AL Dorow
The No. 8 and 4 teams. Ten
nessee and Texas A. & M, rompeo
to easy wins. and Notre Dame
No. S. was upset by Southern
Methodist, 27-20.
Since most of the second five
turned in decisive victories, it's
probable the standings will be
greatly shuffled when all the votes
are In this week.
Texas, No. 6, edged Oklahoma
81. breaking the Sooners' three
year hex over the Longhorns; IL
linois. No. 2, toyed with Syracuse
41-20; Georgia Tech, No. 8,
whipped Louisiana State, 25-7
and Maryland. No. 10. crushed
Georgia with surprising power
43-7. Ohio State. No. 9, had its
second disappointing Saturday in
a row was happy to come off with
a 6-6 tie against Wisconsin.
Glory for Southwest.
Much of the high-scoring high
jinks came in the intersectional
games. possibly because of the diff
ficulties colleges have in scouting
teams hundreds of miles away
Alabama. like Notre Dame and
Syracuse. scored three times only
to lose to Villanova, 41-l8, on Fri
day night.
The Southwest came off with
most Of the glory in the intersec-
tional competition on victories by
Southern Methodist, Texas and
Rice. a 2l-14 winner over Navy.
The Far West also scored with
College Of the Pacific's clear-cut
2l-7 beating Of Clemson. but the
Midwest and South both had to
be content with two wins and two
losses. The East won two and
lost four. while the Big Seven won
one and lost two and the Skyline
lost one.
Good Ones This Week.
Biggest upset of the day came
Saturday night. when little Texas
Tech completed a 1919 humping
of the Southwest Conferences S
Texas Christian. A Southern Con-
ference surprise was William and
Mary's 7-6 win over Wake Forest,
while the same circuit had ex-
pected Duke to win by more than
27-21 against North Carolina
State.
Next Saturdays program has
another batch of attractive inter-
sectional contests. plus a smat-
tering of key conference games.
San Francisco will travel 5000
miles to play Fordham in New
York. Illinois, which came East
for Syracuse, now goes West to
play the University of Washington.
villanova. looking more and more
like the East's top independent
team. continues its Southern in
vasion against Kentucky, which
got back on the right track Satur-
day by whipping Mississippi State,
27-0. after three straight losses.
Michigan State travels to Penn
State. Notre Dame to Pittsburgh,
Nebraska to Minnesota and Navy
to Northwestern. The undefeated
Wildcats opened their Big Ten
campaign Saturday by whipping
Minnesota. 21-7.
Bears to Meet Trojans.
Game of the day on the Pacific
Coast pits the mighty California
offense, which has rolled up 166
points in four games, against
Southern California in a tradi-
tionally vigorous meeting which
could decide the conference cham
pionship.
Kansas meets Oklahoma in a key
Big Seven game, and Tennessee
riding high with three straight
takes on Alabama in what had
been billed last August as one OF
the games of the year. The
Crimson Tides three straight
losses have dimmed the luster of
this one. but the red-shirted Ala
bamans would like nothing better
than spelling Tennessee's perfect
mark.
Columbia, the only major un-
scored-on team in the country
after Tennessee's 42-13 win over
Chattanooga, faces a big Ivy
League test against potentially
powerful Pennsylvania, which
dropped a 1877 decision to Prince
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