Evening star., 1954-11-13
Ohio State, Arkansas
And Georgia Facing
Stiff Tasks Today
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faced stiff assignments on this.
the next-to-last big Saturday Of
the college football season.
The Buckeyes. surprise lead
ers Of the Big Ten race. rolled
into Lafayette, Ind. sporting .
To record for their game with
Purdue. Ohio State could clinch
the title with q victory provided
Iowa beats Minnesota and Michi-
gan State whips Michigan.
If everything breaks that way.
the Buckeyes can make reser-
vations for the Coast and q New
Years Day Rose Bowl game
against Southern California,
which already has clinched the
Pacific Coast Conference spot.
The Trojans still must play
UCLA. the No. / team In the
country. next week. but the re-
suits win have significance only
In the conference standings. :
UCLA is ineligible for the Rose
Bowl. having played last Janu-
airy /.
Dawson Is Big Problem.
Ohio States big problem 10
lanky Len Dawson. the Purdue
passer who likes to fling them
far and wide. Coach Woody
Hayes Of Ohio State intends to
bottle up his receivers on the
distance efforts and let him COM
plete the short ones. Purdue's
chances of an upset. Of course,
rest on Dawson's strong right
arm.
Arkansas. which has fiabber.
gasted the Southwest Confer
ence by sweeping through all
five rivals so far, has q home
coming date with Southern
Methodist. needing only. q tie
to clinch the title and q Cotton
Bowl berth.
SMU figures to be anything
but q pushover for Bowden
Wyatt's lads. The Mustangs
have been beaten only once, by
Georgia Tech, and tied by Texas
and. II they turn the tables,
they'll still be In the running
for the crown.
Auburn May Stop Georgia.
Georgia, unbeaten but tied
once In the Southeastern Con-
ference, Is q one-touchdown
underdog against Auburn. II
the Bulldogs win this one they'll
have to beat Georgia Tech to
get into the Sugar Bowl. Geor-
gia Tech meets Alabama today
in the NCAA television game Of
the week.
Both Auburn and Georgia
scored upsets by identical scores
last week. Auburn turned back
Miami and Georgia edged Flor
ida, both by 14-13. Today's
game could wind up In . two.
man battle between Auburn's
one -man gang, Joe Childress,
and Georgia's star runner,
Bobby Garrard.
Notre Dame, which has been
scrambling and scratching to
get back in the top three Of the
Associated Press poll since It's
stunning 27-l4 loss to Purdue
almost two months ago, Is a
four-touchdown favorite over
North Carolina. The Irish cur
rently are ranked No. s in the
Nation.
Missouri Faces Sooners.
Missouri, still nursing a slight
hope Of representing the Big
Seven In the Orange Bowl, takes
on the perennial champion,
Oklahoma, which can't make
the trip because the conference
prohibits a team from playing
there two years in o row. The
battle for the spot probably will
go right down to the wire. be.
cause Kansas State and Nebraska
also have q chance Of getting
the bid.
Army, which has developed
into the class Of the East. meets
Pennsylvania I'm q warrnup for
Its big tussle with Navy Novern-
Der 81. The Middies took on
another weak Ivy League rival,
Columbia.
The Ivy League race still Is
unsettled. but If Yale gets past
Princeton in their 77th meeting
today and Harvard next week,
the Ellis have It.
Other major games today:
East - Colgate Syracuse, Bos-
ton University Boston College,
Rutgers-Penn State, Holy Cross
Fordham, Harvard Brown, Cor
nell Dartmouth.
Midwest - Wisconsin Illinois,
Indiana Northwestern. Iowa
State Kansas State, Kansas
Oklahoma A&M, Wichita-Cin-
cinnati.
South - Duke Wake Forest,
Clemson Maryland. Virginia.
South Carolina, Richmond-N. c.
State. West Virginia William and
Mary, Waynesburg Virginia Tech,
The Citadel-VMI, Florida Ten
neSsee, Mississippi State-Louisi-
ana State, Tulane-Vanderbilt,
Memphis State-Kentucky, villa.
nova Mississippi Southern, Fur
mani FLORIDA State. Georgia Tech-
Alabama.
Southwest Rice Texas A6sM,
Texas Texas Christian. Tulsa
Texas Tech. Arizona-Texas
Western, North Texas-Arizona
State, Mississippi- Houston.
Far West - Colorado Utah,
Wyoming Brigham Young, Colo
RADIO A6EM-New Mexico, Mon.
tana-Montana State. Oregon
State California, Washington
State Oregon. San Jose State
Stanford, Marquette College Of
Pacific, Southern California
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