Evening star., 1954-10-23
Fight for Bowl Bids
Makes Three Cities
Grid Capitals Today
By the Assoeioied Press

dIlk are prizes WHICH MAKE 70.
Los Angeles and Little
Rock the football capitals Of
the Nation today.
At Columbus, Ohio, two un-
beaten n-untied giants Of the Big
Ten-Wisconsin. No. 2 ranked
nationally, and Ohio State, No.
in a game which Mid
west observers figure points the
way to the conference cham
pionship and the lush Rose Bowl
assignment.
The other end of the Pasa-
dena Bowl axis conceivably
could be determined at Los An
geles where Southern California.
the favorite, meets California
in the highlight of the Pacific
Coast campaign.
UCLA, the dominant power
on the coast and the country's
No. 3 team, is ineligible to re-
turn to the bowl, as is the Big
Tens Michigan State, under
the no-repeat rules of the ar
Ole Miss Meets Arkansas.
Little Rock is the neutral site
of an interconference battle be-
tween two other undefeated
elevens with definite bowl aspi-
rations - Mississippi and Ar
kansas.
Mississippi, fifth ranked, has
designs on the Sugar Bowl in
New Orleans, while seventh
rated Arkansas, surprise con-
querer of Texas Christian, Bay
lor and Texas on successive
week ends, has its eyes on the
Cotton Bowl at Dallas.
BY an odd preseason arrange
ment born of desperation, the
Razorbacks could knock Ole
Miss out of the Sugar Bowl by
scoring a victory. but the Mis-
sissippians can't hurt Arkansas
Southwest Conference record.
Unable to schedule the re-
quired six Southeast Conference
games, Mississippi was permitted
to count Arkansas a league test.
Mississippi rules a 71a-point IA
vorite.
Others Have Easy Tasks.
Most of the other teams in
the top 10 circle have relatively
easy assignments. An exception
is unbeaten Minnesota, No. 8,
which invades Michigan bare
touchdown favorite in their ira
ditional Little Brown Jug"
series.
Top-ranked Oklahoma has an
other breather in Kansas State
at Norman, Okla. UCLA is at
Oregon State, which has been
able to win only one of it's four
games. Notre Dame. No. 6, is
idle.
Army's speedy, quick-hitting
Cadets, buoyed by an impressive
victory over Duke, are three
touchdown favorites over Colum-
bia in New York. West Virginia,
unbeaten and united, is a heavy
choice over Virginia Military
Academy at Bluefield, West Va.
Army is ninth-ranked and
West Virginia, winner over Penn
State a week ago, is No. 10.
Pitt Game on TV.
Television game Of the day in
the Midwest, East, South and
Southwest is the Pittsburgh
Northwestern clash at Pitts
burgh. The time is 1:25 pm.
(EST). ct will be seen over
WMAL, Channel Z, in Washing
TOM
A few interesting iptersec-
tional encounters dot the map.
Penn State jumps down to Texas
to play Texas Christian while
another Texas team, Southern
Methodist. is host to Kansas.
Navy tries to bounce back at
Philadelphia against Penn, which
has suffered four straight de-
feats. Fordham plays at Mar
quette.
The highlight in the East is
the game at New Haven. Conn.,.
between Yale and Colgate, both
unbeaten. The South's feature
is Kentucky at Georgia Tech.
Texas and Rice come to grips
in the main conference attrac-
ton in the Southwest. Unbeaten
Colorado is host to Nebraska in
a Big Seven headliner.
Houston Beats VillanOva.
Miami's 9-7 defeat of Mary
land featured last nights action.
Houston turned back Villanova,
28-7. before a grocery" crowd
of 57,817 in Philadelphia. A gro-
Gerry chain distributed tickets to
customers who purchased $40
worth of goods. Jack Patterson
scored three touchdowns and
pitched for the other Houston
score.
Halfback Bob Burgmeier per-
formed almost as well as Pat
terson when he bulled over for
three touchdowns in Detrolt's
2S-18 Missouri Valley Confer
ence victory over Tulsa.
In other major games last
night George Washington and
William and Mary played a 1918
tie; Furman scored an expected
triumph over Davidson 1877;
Chattanooga won its fourth
straight at-home game, 41-6,
from East Texas State and Dem
yer knocked Wichita out of the
unbeaten ranks, 27-14.