Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-13
1875 Beating Underscores
Terps' Lack Of Offense
Football Interest
On IntersectionuI
Games Today
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Intersectional games claim
major attention on this week.
ends football schedule. and to-
days contests just about wind
up that phase of the season pro-
viding the line of comparison for
those who try to rate teams on
a national basis.
From here on, major confer
ence teams will devote their at
tention mainly to settling their
own sectional championships.
Only a few ambitious independ-
ent teams. such as Notre Dame.
Navy, Pittsburgh, Miami of
Florida and Villanova will in
dulge in any great amount of
intersectional play during the
rest of the season.
Undefeated Miami won its
third straight last night by nip
ping Maryland 1876 in the
Orange Bowl. In another FRI
day night encounter Richmond
edged the Citadel 7-3.
Army and Navy and a trio of
Southwest Conference teams lead
the way in travel today.
Army Is Hopeful
The unbeaten Army team, after
a tough hassle with Penn State
last week, visits Michigan's 101,-
.000-seat stadium at Ann Arbor
to take on Bonnie Oosterbaan's
lads, who beat Michigan State in
Everything but the score. With
the development of Bob Kyasky
at quarterback and the return of
Loren Reid at tackle, Army
Coach Earl Blaik is hopeful of
making it a close game.
Nays alternating FIRST"
teams both are expected to see
a lot of action against Tulane
at New Orleans. Although Navy
has a 20 record and Tulane 81
against stronger opposition. the
status of the Midshipmen is I'M
certain. Coach Eddie Erdelatz
apparently hasn't been able to
settle on a definite lineup.
From the Southwest, Texas
Christian. Rice and Southern
Methodist all go into the South
ern area to play Alabama, Flor
ida and Duke. respectively. All
three visitors should have the
edge. Meanwhile, Baylor and
Arkansas tangle in the only
Southwest Conference game and
Texas takes on Oklahoma. No. l
team in the Nation in the Associ-
ated Press ranking poll, in a
contest with a slightly intersec-
4onal flavor.
Oklahoma, the dominant team
of the Big Seven Conference, has
Just learned that its 32-game
winning streak isn't a modern
record. StatiSticians dug up the
fact that Pittsburgh won 33 in a
row from 1914 to 1919. So to-
days game gives Oklahoma a
chance to tie the record and
when they return to their
Of conference rivals,
they'll be going for a new mark.
TCU and Baylor also are rated
in the Nations top 10 teams.
The others in this group are
playing in their own neighbour
hoods, except Southern Cali
fornia, which has a day off.
Michigan State, the No. 2
team, goes after its second Big
Ten victory against Indiana,
Georgia Tech 90 plays Louisi-
ana State in Southeastern
Conference game and Ohio
State 80 and Mississippi Cd
engage in a couple of the days
most important clashes in their
own league.
Other Big Games
Ohio State has it's annual
struggle with Illinois, an uncer-
tain team which was beaten by
Washington last week but still
looks dangerous. Mississippi
takes on Vanderbilt, a three
game winner which currently
leads the Southeastern Confer
Ience and which finished 18th in
this weeks poll.
Other conference games of
special Importance include Iowa
Wisconsin and Minnesota North
western big TEN, Iowa State
Kansas and Nebraska Kansas
State Chg Severn. Kentucky
Auburn southeastern, Wake
Forest-Clemson and Virginia.
South Carolina (Atlantic COAST ;,
Utah Denver, Montana Utah
State and Wyoming-New Mexico
Skyline. Texas Western-Ari-
IONA, Texas Tech-West Texas
and Hardin Simmons Arizona
State Border, UCLA-Wash-
ington State. Washington-Ore-
gon and Oregon State California
Pacific Coast, Brown-Dart-
mouth, Columbia Yale, Cornell
Harvard and Penn-Princeton
(Ivy).
Some equally interesting nom
league games are Penn State
Holy Cross, Syracuse-West Vir-
ginia. Boston University George
Washington, Notre Dame-Pur-
due. Marquette Boston College,
North Carolina Georgia, North
Carolina State-Florida State
and Houston-Texas Ann.