Evening star., 1953-10-24
Big Contest EcIipses
Important Games in
Several Conferences
BY the Associated Press

IIlS iii uIluc1GdC6Q SCr6dk OF 81
games and with high hopes of
extending the skein.
The Ramblin' Wrecks swept
into South Bend, Ind, confident
they can lick Frank Leahy's
power-packed forces even
though, for the record, the odd
makers have made them 7h-
point underdogs.
This is the big one of day
that could shed light on several
conference races and perhaps
even decide a couple of bowl
participants. In the Big Ten,
Michigan must beat Minnesota
to stay in the race, while in the
Pacific Coast Conference the
main attraction is Southern
California and California. It
behooves the Trojans to get past
Cal in their race for the Rose
Bowl.
Close Battles in Southwest.
And in the a1ways-whacky
Southwest Conference, Baylor,
the shaky favorite, rates only
seven points over the Texas Ag-
gies. Rice, the eary-season
choice, plays Texas. Baylor is
No. 6 in the Associated Press
poll but in the scramble for the
Southwest Conference title and
the Cotton Bowl bid that goes
with it, any of the others could
sneak in.
Maryland, rated No. 3 right
behind Norte Dame and Michi-
gan State, won't have any wor-
ries. The Terps played Miami
last night and enjoyed a brisk
workout to the tune of 800. Jim
Tatum's lads scored three touch
downs in the first 13 minutes
then played under wraps the
rest of the way.
Leahy's pre-battle statement
was a gloomy one, indeed:
Georgia Tech is a truly great
team" he said. 81 wouldn't be
surprised if it was the fastest
team in the Nation. I hope Coach
Bobby Dodd is in a merciful
mood"
Although the Tech players
are on record as believing they
can beat the Irish, Dodd was
not going to be outdone by
Leahy.
II don't see how we can be
considered to have better than
q fair, outside chance" he OBJ
served. y
Leahy wins the skirmish of
the statements in a walk.
Lattner "Needs Work"
AS usual, Johnny Lattner,
Ralph Guglielmi and Neil Wor-
den will carry the mail for the
Irish and they figure to bust
through the Tech line. Lattner
is completely recovered from his
heel injury, but he has averaged
only about 2 yards per carry in
three games.
HE needs work." Leahy
moaned, but how can you take
a chance on injury before a
game with Tech. If we should
somehow manage to beat Tech
we might go on to have a pretty
fair team at Notre Dame this
year."
Tech, which operates out of a
straight-T formation, is pri-
marily a running team, with
Leon Hardeman, the squat speed
ster. handling most of the
chores. He has been averaging
Z yards a clip. Glenn Turner
and Billy Teas also can move.
Michigan State has a soft
assignment in Purdue in a Big
Ten meeting. Illinois, another
league power, entertainS Syracuse
in an intersectional game. Ok
lahoma, the defending champion
in the Big Seven, plays Colorado
in a conference test and West
Virginia, No. 9, tackles Virginia
Military Institute.
OF all the schools in the first
10, Navy seems to be in the most
precarious position. The Mid
dies, who slaughtered Princeton
last week, tangle with Penn, a
rugged crew despite two defeats.
TelevisiOn Panorama.
There is no television game of
the week. Instead, four games
will be televised in a panoramic
experiment with the scene shift
ing from one to another, wher-
ever the action is hottest. The
viewers around the country will
get snatches of the Princeton
Cornell, Illinois-Syracuse, Iowa
Indiana and ArkanSas-Missis-
sippi games over NBC starting
at 2:45 pm.
The program is on Wash
ington's WNBW.
Other top attractions around
the country include Columbia
Army, Dartmouth Harvard and
Penn State-Texas Christian in
the East; Alabama Mississippi
State, N. C. State-Duke and
North Carolina Georgia in the
South; Pitt-Northwestern, Ne
braska- Missouri, Southern Meth
odist-Kansas and Oklahoma A.
and M.-Detroit in the Midwest,
and Washington State -UCLA,
Stanford Washington and
Idaho-Oregon State in the Far
West.
Last night, Boston University
marched to a 52-12 victory over
Lehigh, and Denver defeated
Brigham Young, 27-19, in the
Skyline Conference.
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