Evening star., 1954-10-16
Upset Wave Makes
Grid Leaders Chary
About Today Games
BY the Assoeioied Press

BY the Assoeioied Press
The top college football teams
in the country went into action
today wondering who would be
the next victim of the strange
wave of reversals that have
struck all season.
Oklahoma. the heir-apparent,
to Maryland's 1853 rating as
No. l, faced what appeared to
be an easy assignment in Kan
sas. The Jayhawks haven't won
a game in four starts and are
not even thinking in terms Of
whipping the Sooners, who have
ground out three straight vic
tories without a defeat. All
they hope to do is make it
interesting.
Notre Dame and Michigan
State, two teams trying to- re-,
gain lost prestige, met in South
Bend with the Irish favored.
Notre Dame was rated the top
team in the Nation in the pre-
season Associated Press poll, but
it's defeat at the hands of Purdue
dropped it down the list.
TV GanVe at 4:15.
The Spartans, too, were re-
garded before the season started
as possible repeat winners in
the Big Ten, but they lost to
Iowa and Wisconsin before de-
feating Indiana. So the game
looms as one between a couple
of fallen giants.
The NCAA's national television
game of the week, starting at
AIS pm. (EST) over ABC, pitted
Southern California against Ore
gon. There were tragic overtones
to this game. Two days ago Jack
Patera Of Oregon accidentally
shot and killed Ken Sweitzer, a
standout guard on last years
team, while hunting deer. The
grief f-stricken Patera agreed to
play at the urging of Sweitzer's
widow.
OF all the big boys, UCLA
faced the most perilous chore.
The Uclans were meeting STAN
ford and, while they were favored,
Stanford could provide an un-
comfortable afternoon for the
third-ranked team.
The Big Ten offered several of
the days top games. 1t could be
that this conference race will 60
right down to the final Saturday
of the season before being de-
cided. wisconsin, Ohio State
and Minnesota all are unbeaten
and united, while Purdue has
only a tie against it and that
against Duke. Wisconsin played
Purdue today. Ohio State. went
against Iowa and Minnesota
tackled Illinois.
Duke Faces Tough Army.
Duke faced a difficult assign
ment against Army in Durham,
N. c., while Navy journeyed to
Pitt. Two of the East's .un-
beatens. Penn State and West
Virginia, were meeting at State
College, Pa, while Maryland, ]
tied once and beaten once this
season. entertains North Caro-
lima at College Park.
Last night, Detroit defeated
Villanova, 300, with Lee Riley
scoring two touchdowns on long
punt returns; Miami (Fla.) broke
out in the second period to top
Mississippi State, 27-13, and
Chattanooga edged North Texas
State, 20-19, on the breakaway
running of Junior Pozzini.
And little Peru (Nebr.) Teach
ers had its 26-victory streak
snapped, 27-20, by Kearney
Teachers. This was the longest
winning streak in the country,
dating back to 1851.
Other major games today:
South-The Citadel at Fur
man, Vanderbilt at Georgia.
Texas Tech at Louisiana State,
Virginia Tech at Richmond, VMI
at Virginia, Florida State at
North Carolina State, Tulane at
Mississippi. Tennessee at Ala
bama, Auburn at Georgia Tech,
Kentucky at Florida.
East-George Washington at
Penn, Syracuse at Boston u,
Colgate at Dartmouth, Marquette
at Holy Cross, William and Mary
at Rutgers, Princeton at Brown,
Columbia at Harvard, Cornell at
Yale. Boston College at Fordham.
West > Hardin Simmons at
Cincinnati. Indiana at Missouri,
Michigan at Northwestern, Ore
gon State at Nebraska.
Southwest - Washington at
Baylor, Houston at Oklahoma
A&M, Arkansas at Texas, TCU
at Texas A6SM. SMU at Rice.
Far West-Idaho at Arizona,
College of the Pacific at Colo
RADIO A8ZM, Denver at Utah, New
Mexico at Wyoming. Utah State
at Montana.