Evening star., 1954-11-12
Both Outsiders
Al Beginning Of
Hectic Season
Rozorbucks Need Tie
To Assure Bowl Bid;
Buckeyes Ploy Purdue
BY The Associates Press

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New Years Day if things gt
right tomorrow.
Arkansas. the surprise Of tn.
Southwest Conference, need,
only to tie Southern Methodist
to clinch the league champion.
ship to the embarrassment o.
such powers as Texas. which
was regarded as an almost t-cer.
tain winner before the start o1
the campaign.
Ohio State has shot to til,
fore in the up-and- down Biz
Ten race, and the Buckeyes, nov
the No. 2 team in the country
will seek to make Purdue it.
eighth straight victim and sixth
in a row in conference play.
The Buckeyes might get Z
real battle from Len Dawson anc
his aerial circus. but they're The
favorites just the same. If Mich
igan State should whip Michigan
and Iowa drops Minnesota, Ohio
State Is in.
Bowl Bids Automatic.
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The Southwest Conference
winner automatically is nomi-
mated as the host team in the
Cotton Bowl in Dallas, while the
Big Ten victor takes the trek tc
the West Coast and the gold and
glory that goes with the Rose
Bowl.
The other Cotton Bowl team
is invited after the season ends
so Arkansas won't know who its
opponent will be for several
weeks. But the Pacific Coast
Conference representative prob
ably will be Southern California,
through the courtesy Of UCLA.
Southern Cal plays Washington
tomorrow and should have NO
trouble.
UCLA, the No. / team in the
land in this weeks Associated
Press poll, is idle before tackling
the Trojans next week. The
Uclars played in the Rose Bowl
last New Years Day. so they
are not eligible to return.
Another team that could see
its bowl hopes enhanced or badly
nlangled is Georgia, currently
leading the Southeastern Con-
ference. The Bulldogs are unde-
feated but tied in league play.
They face a strong Auburn club
and will be the underdog. The
conference winner goes to the
Sugar Bowl.
77th Yale Princeton Game.
Meanwhile, there are many
traditional games around the
country, and even the ancient
Ivy League could produce a win
ner. Yale, dubbed by Army last
week, nonetheless is 40 in the
league. The Ellis play Prince
ton for the 77th time and could
come home first should Harvard
turn back Brown and Cornell
get past Dartmouth.
Other big ones from a tradi-
tional standpoint include Pitt
Nebraska and Alabama Georgia
Tech. In fact, even If they
weren't traditional, these two
games would be important. Me-
braska is warming up for the
Oklahoma game a week hence
and hopes to get the Orange
Bowl bid as runner-up in the Big
Seven to the ineligible Sooners.
Alabama, many times a bowl
team. still might make one OF
the post-Season games, If it shows
well against the Engineers.
Sooners vs.. Missouri.
Oklahoma. ranked No. 8 behind
UCLA and Ohio State. plays Mis-
souri,. Nebraska's chief rival for
the Orange Bowl bid. Notre
Dame, No. S after Arkansas, will
take on North Carolina, while
Army. the class of the East and
No. 6, has a relatively soft as
signment against Penn.
Other major games include:
East - Columbia Navy. Col
gate Syracuse, Boston Uni
versity- Boston College, Rutgers
Penn State, Holy Cross-Ford-
ham.
Midwest - Wisconsin Illinois
Indiana Northwestern, Iowa
State-Kansas State, Kansas
Oklahoma AIM, Wichita-Cin-
cinnati.
South - Duke Wake Forest,
Clemso n-Maryland, Virginia
South Carolina. Richmond-
North Carolina State, West
Virginia William and Mary,
Waynesburg Virginia Tech, The
Citadel-VMI. Florida Tennessee
Mississippi State -Iouisians d
State, Tulane Vanderbilt. Mem
phis State-Kentucky, Villanova-
Mississippi Southern. Flirlnan-
Florida State.
Southwest Rice Texas A6sM,
Texas-Texas Christian. Tulsa
Texas Tech, Arizona Texas
Western. North Texas Arizona
State.
Far West Colorado Utah,
Wyoming Brigham Young, Colo
RADIO AdSM-New Mexico, Mon-
tana-Montana State, oregon
State California, Washington
State Oregon, San Jose Stan
ford. Marquette College Of Pa
cific.
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