The Key West citizen., 1954-10-29
10 Major
College Teams
Are Unbeaten
BY HAROLD cLAASSEN
The Associated Press

College football blithely enters
its seventh weekend of the season
today with only 10 major teams
unbeaten and united and with ev-
cry indication most Of them will be
happy-and lucky-if they still re-
tain their spotless records come
Sunday.
The shooting at the unsullied be-
gins tonight when Miami, sur
prising contender for national hon.
ors, takes on Fordham under a
Florida moon. The Miamians, al
ready pointing for their game next
season with Notre Dame, are
young and potent. having whipped
Maryland in their most recent out
ing. The Hurricanes have won five
straight this season.
But the firing becomes really in
tense Saturday. Then Ohio State,
currently the No. 1 team with five
straight successes, meets North
western, which hasn't won. It is the
ideal spot for one of 1954's many
upsets, but the Buckeyes have Hop
along Cassidy.
Oklahoma and UCLA, also un-
beaten, make up the top trio of
college footballerS at present with
Ohio State and they face opposition
of rugged type. The Oklahomans
are at Colorado where they were
tied two years ago. The mile high
altitude and Colorado's ground at
tack may combine to trouble the
SoOners.
UCLA, with a prolific scoring
machine that has counted 265
points in six victories slays Califor-
mia, a team which still lists Paul
Larsen among its star players and
which last Saturday gave Southern
California a rugged afternoon.
Arkansas, another surprise name
among the unbeaten, tricks to Col
lege Station, for night tussle with
the cadets of Texas A & M. The
Porkers have won five, but the
Cadets are dangerous despite only
one victory in six starts.
West Virginia, already boasting
of four triumphs, faces a solid task
in repulsing Pittsburgh team that
dropped three and then won two.
Virginia Tech, Boston College,
Cincinnati and Montana State are
the other major unbeatens. Tech
travels to william & Mary, Cincin-
natl takes its unblemished record
all the way to the College of the
Pacific at Stockton, Calf, Boston
College is host to Xavier of Ohio
aud Montana State is host to Idaho
State.
That leaves many top teams who
have suffered a defeat along the
way. Among them is Notre Dame.
one-time loser, meeting Navy,
with a similar record, at Bal
timore. Army, a cropper In its
opener with South Carolina, has a
below-par Virginia team as its OPP
p0nent.
Purdue and Wisconsin, among
the country's best, are occupied
with strictly family affairs. The
Badgers, bounced out of the Big
Ten lead q week ago, play Iowa
and the Boilermakers engage an
Illinois team that has speed but
little defense.
Penn and Penn State occupy the
TV screens. The Quakers have yet
to win for their new coach, Steve
Sebo, while the Nittany Lions, who
started the season as though head
ed for the promised land, have
dropped their last two.
Other games on the Saturday
docket are:
EaSt-Cornell-C Columbia, Dart
mouth Yale, Holy Cross-Syracuse,
Colgate Princeton, Ohio University
Brown-Lehigh and Buck
ll-Boston University.
neutrality-suspicious. Caro-
lima, Georgia-Alabama, Tulane-Au-
burn, Mississippi Louisiana State,
Tech-Duke, North Carolina -Tennes-
see, Clemson-Wake Forest, Fur
man-North Carolina State and Viii
lanova-Kentucky.
Midwest - Indiana Michigan.
Michigan State-Minnesota, Missou-,
ri-Nebraska, Kansas-Kansas State,
Drake-Iowa State, Houston-Wichita
and College of Pacific Cincinnati.
SouthweSt-Baylor-Texa Chris
tian, Southern Methodist-Texa
Vanderbilt Rice, Oklahoma AIM
Tulsa and Texas Tech-Arizona.
Far West - Oregon State-South-
ern California, Oregon-Was shington,
Washington State-Stanford, Idaho
Utah, tana-Colorado A & M,
Brigham Young Utah State.