Evening star., 1960-10-22
Top Teams Bid to Survive
Weekly Wave Of Upsets
Two Contests
Could Influence
Big Ten Outcome
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press
Iowa, Mississippi, Missouri
and Minnesota. four teams so
far by-passed by Old Man Up
set, test their stature in key
college football games today
as the season hits the halfway
mark with a flourish.
The four, members Of the
Associated Press top ten that
also includes three other teams
with perfect records, have cur
rent tradition against them for
at least two Of he Nations
top teams have fallen in each
Of the past two Saturdays.
Last week it was Ohio State.
Wisconsin and Clemson. Illi-
nois, Purdue and Arkansas
went under the previous week.
Top-ranked Iowa (4-0), lead
ing the Big Ten with a 80
mark, plays its homecoming
game against Purdue, the team
which belted Ohio State. The
10th-ranked Boilermakers pit
their power against Iowa's
speed. The Hawkeyes beat
Wisconsin last week in the
final minute.
Ole Miss Plays Arkansas
Mississippi, ranked second
takes on a speedy Arkansas
team that nipped Texas, 1923,
last week. Ole Miss, led by
Quarterback Jack Gibbs pin
point passing and a furious
rushing offenSe, has the Ma
tion's toughest rushing defense.
This may tell against the Raz-
orbacks, whose ground offense
will be slowed by the absence
Of their injured fullback, 10
Paul Alberty.
Missouri mo. 81 plays al
ways-dangerous Iowa State
and also tries to keep a share
Of first place In the Big Eight.
Colorado, matching the Tigers
20 conference mark, plays Ne
braska. The Cyclones have
their 1-2 running combo of
Dave Hoppmann and Tom
Watkins to give Missouri'S
usually Staunch defense a good
test.
Sixth-ranked Minnesota (4-0
could step into the Big Ten
lead If Iowa falters. The
GopherS, 20 in the confer
ence, play the 61st Little Brown
jug game against Michigan.
Irish, Wildcats on TV
One Of the oldest grid r..
alrieS in the Midwest, starte
in 1889. pits Notre Dame an
Northwestern in the Nations
TV game tWMAL-7 at 2:2t
p.m0. Both teams have l.;
records. each losing thrc
straight after opening tri-
umphs.
The rest of the undefeateds
in the top ten should MAXI
it. Third-ranked Syracuse
500, the Nations top defen-
sive team. meets winless West
Virginia. which has scorec
only two touchdowns. Navy
$50. ranked fourth, plays
Penn. Seventh-ranked Baylo.
(4-O meets Texas A6sM
(0-3-0 in a Southwest Confer
ence.
Another Big Ten game pits
Ohio State mo. 81 against
Wisconsin. The Badgers quar-
terback. Ron Miller, the Sec
ond-best total offense producer
in the Nation, has a bad ankle
and his underStudy, Jim Bak-
ken, is out with injuries.
Yitiion iioihishrdl rdluf fiiiiioo
Bob Schloredt, WaShington's
All-ATnerican quarterback who
suffered a broken collarbone,
will sit out the game as the
eighth-ranked Huskies . (4-D
take on tough Oregon State,
loser only to Iowa in five out
ingS. Bob Hivner takes over
for Schloredt.
Races Being Set Up
The conference races are
being set up for some furious
jostling in weeks to come as
most of the current leaders ar;
engaged with outside oppo-
nentS.
Florida, 20 in the South
eastern Conference. meet.
Louisiana State and a victor,
will tie the Gators with Ole
Miss for the lead. Utah State,
topping the Nation in total and
rushing offense, plays Colorado
State University, hoping for a
win that will give it a 40 mark
in the Skyline. Skyline leader
Wyoming, also 40, meets non
member Air Force.
Duke Can Boost Lead
Yale, leading the Ivy League
with a 80 mark palyS non
member Colgate, while Prince
ton and Dartmouth, both 20,
can tie if they beat Cornell and
Harvard, respectively. Virginia
Military and Virginia Tech,
co-leaders in the Southern
Conference. are elsewhere. VMI
meets. Boston College while
Tech plays Virginia, loser of
its last % games. Furman can
tie both with a victory over
The Citadel.
Duke, 80 in the Atlantic
Coaast Conference, can extend
its lead with a victory over
Clemson, 2-l. while Rice tries
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