Evening star., 1952-10-28
Michigan State Leads
Third Straight Week;
Sooners Also Advance
BY the Assoeiated Press

NEW YORK, Oct. .28.-Michigan
State. with its vaunted 17-man
backf1eld and a 35-points-a-game
offense, still is rated as the No.
college football team in the land,
but second-place Maryland con-
ltinues to whittle away at the
lSpartans' margin.
For the third straight week,
Coach Biggie Munn's monsters
have been voted tops by 121 sports
writers and broadcasters in the
Associated Press poll. Except for
1.-THE second week of the poll, when
Wisconsin held sway briefly, Mich
igan State has dominated the poll
ever since the preseason voting.
Saturdays 34-7 humping of
previously undefeated Penn State
brought the Spartans 80 first
place votes and a total of 1.042
points on a basis of 10 for first.
nine for second and so on down
the line.
Terps Reduce Margin.
Despite Michigan's impressive
game, Maryland crept little
closer on the strength of its 34-6
win over Louisiana State. The
ITerrapins. who trailed Michigan
State by SO points last week, cut
the margin to 26 as they piled up
l32 first-place votes and 1915
points.
Oklahoma, even more potent
offensibly than Michigan State
with an average of AZ points a
game, also closed some ground.
but stayed in third place with 20
tirst-place votes and $50 points.
Behind the big three were
Georgia Tech, Southern California,
Duke and UCLA, all closely
punched. with three new members
OF the top 10 filling the last three
Iplaces-Purdue, Kansas and Villa
nova.
Georgia Tech moved up one
place after hopping Vanderbilt.
800, while Southern California
jumped two places thanks to it's
100 upset of California, last
weeks No. 4 team. The defeat
knocked California right out of the
select group as the Golden Bears
fell to 18th place.
Virginia Now 18th.
Dukes 2l-7 victory over Virginia
held the Blue Devils firm in the
sixth slot and also dropped Vir-
ginia from the No. 9 spot to 10Th
place in the standings. Similarly,
UCLA's 20-7 intersectional win
over Wisconsin elevated the Bruins
one place and dropped the Badgers
from 10th to 18th.
| Both Purdue and Kansas
bounced back into the select list
after being ousted last week. Pur-
due, victimized by Notre Dame
came back to the fold by slaugh-
tering Illinois, 40-12. and Kan
sas, whipped by Oklahoma a week
previously. turned about and did
the same to Southern Methodist,
26-o, last Saturday.
Vlllanova edged into the 10th
spot despite rough time in
downing Xavier of Ohio, 1920.
| Purdue Gets Big Chance.
/ Purdue. incidentally, can Jump
right up with the leaders or drop
back down to the also rams Sat
urday-When the schedule re-
quires the Boilermakers to do bat
tie with Michigan State in one
OF the Nations top games.
Georgia Tech, moving up stead
lily in the rankings, also has a top
10 opponent in Duke in q game
that has the Southland all excited
This one should give a line on the
respective strengths of the South
eastern Conference Georgia TECH
and Southern Conference Duke,
/ UCLA also has tough assign
ment in rebounding California. but
the rest OF the top 10 have it
pretty easy. Southern California
has no game scheduled, while
Maryland meets Boston Univer-
sity, Oklahoma has a romp with
Iowa State. Kansas is heavily fa-
Vored over Kansas State and Villa
nova plays the Paris Island Ma
rines Friday night.
The leaders follow, with season
records and flrst-place votes in
ma renf hococ.