Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-11-23
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Facing Tests in
Saturday Games
BY the Associated Press

as Christian. Pitt, Clemson, and
even four times beaten Duke
renew their push toward bowl
invitations tomorrow in the sea-
sons last big college football
Saturday, with the Volunteers
from Tennessee facing triple
challenge.
Not only the rich plum of a
Sugar or Cotton Bowl invitation,
but first place in the Southeast
ern Conference and. conceivably,
top ranking in the Associated
Press Nationwide poll will be
dangling before the Vols as they
meet Kentucky at Knoxville.
Tennessee, winner of eight
straight games, slipped to Sec
ond place nationally behind Ok
Ilahoma after a week as No. l in
the AP ratings.
After their Southern feuds
with Georgia and Mississippi in
the last two weeks, the Vols
might find alwayS-tough Ken
lucky difficult to handle. And
should they falter. either Geor-
gia Tech or Florida would be
pleased to assume the confer
ence leadership.
Florida in Running
Tech. which may get the other
of the bowl assignments Ten
nessee doesn't take, runs into
fast-improving Florida, which is
bowl ineligible because of pro-
stationary status but still has a
shot at the conference cham
pionship.
Texas Christian, which has the
inside track to the host spot in
the Cotton Bowl since Texas
Ann is ineligible, plays Rice in
ia Southwest Conference feature.
Pitt. leading Eastern candidate
for a major bowl along with
Syracuse, meets capable Penn
State.
In the Atlantic Coast Confer
.ence. Clemson gold plays Vir-
ginia and Duke (3-D is at North
Carolina to continue their three
way scramble with South Caro-
lima for representation against
Colorado of the Big Seven in the
Orange Bowl.
South Carolina passed its
latest test Thanksgiving Day by
defeating Wake Forest. 1870, to
run its conference record to So.
Both the Gamecocks and Duke,
which was beaten four times this
year while wading through a de-
manding schedule, have drawn
attention from the ACC
and Orange Bowl folks since
Clemson was smothered, 21-0, by
the Miami Hurricanes a week
ago.
ale near lille
Oklahoma, a non-bowler be-
cause of the Big Seven's no
repeat rule, will have to content
itself with making Nebraska its
seth straight victim. Iowa, set
for the Rose Bowl against Oregon
State, meets Notre Dame. Yale
bids for the first official Ivy
League title against Harvard and
.UCLA and Southern California
have their annual bruiser in the
national TV game. Miami. un-
beaten but tied, plays West Vir-
ginia tonight.
Other major games show
Michigan at Ohio State, Kansas
State at Michigan State, Min
nesota at Wisconsin, Illinois at
Northwestern, Columbia at Rut-
gers, Dartmouth at Princeton,
Iowa State at Villanova, Indiana
at Purdue, Wichita at Tulsa.
Mississippi Southern at Ala
bama. Florida State at Auburn,
Baylor at SMU. Houston at Texas
Tech. and Washington at Wash
ington State.
Oregon State Tied
Oregon States Beavers, in
their final warmup for Iowa on
New Years day, got a hotfoot
from Oregon's Webfoots in the
co-feature of the Thanksgiving
Day program. The Beavers,
who have clinched the Pacific
Coast Conference title, were held
TO a 14-l4 tie.
Other top scores we're Cornell
20, Penn Z; Richmond s, William
& Mary 0; Brown 20, Colgate o;
Denver 80, Colorado AIM 10;
Maryland Is, North Carolina
State IA; Utah 20, Utah State
7: Virginia Tech As, VMI o:
Miami (Ohio) q, Cincinnati 10;
Washington MOI 40, Washing
ton and Lee 10; and Idaho IA.
Montana 0.