St. Mary’s (Texas) at San Francisco

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  Evening star, District of Columbia, September 18, 1939, page 13

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  Dixie Colleges Hur| Main Forces Into Early Fights Important Scraps Also Slated in Southwest, Coast Sectors AsSoclaCeu FIeSS SpoItS Wrlter. NEW YORK, Sept. 1S.-College football, which seems to be infringing more each year upon rights and privileges of the baseball season, starts its first big movement toward capturing the sports world this week. Already a few tentative thrusts have been Nade, including the in evitable upsets, but next Friday and Saturday there will be real action, While the conservative East and Midwest hold off another week or two, a couple of dozen leading in stitutions of the South and South west and a few of the Pacific Coast are due to play. The preliminaries last Friday and Saturday brought couple of sur prises. San Jose State, the Nations highest scoring team last season, rolled up an impressive $50 count against Montana State in its first game under the guiding hand OF Pop Warner, and little Louisiana Normal bumped off Centenary, $50. An even bigger surprise came yesterday when st. Mary’s of San Antonio, Tex, conquered the big, highly rated team from the University OF San Francisco, 7–⁠6 San Jose Is Busy Team. San Jose, incidentally, plays its second game tonight against Texas Arts and Industries, then meets San Francisco Saturday. The weeks big business begins Thursday, when Vanderbilt, preparing for major tussle with Rice 10 days later, warns up against little Tennessee Tech. Two other SouIheastern Conference teams, Florida and Mississippi State, play Saturday against Setson and Howard, respectively. Twelve of the fifteen Southern Conference members are listed for action, which includes conference title tilts between North Carolina and The Citadel, North Carolina State and Davidson and South Car olina and Wake Forest. Furman, Clemson, Virginia Mill tary. Virginia Tech, Richmond and William and Mary take on lesser foes. Virginia. former conference men, ber, plays Hampden-Sydney, while Centenary tries a comeback against Hardin-S Simmons of Texas. Southwest Front Active. Biggest game on the Southwestern front pits Texas A. and M. against Oklahoma A. and M. of the Missouri Valley Conference. Arkansas leads off with Central Oklahoma Teachers, while little st. Mary’s meets Daniel Baker. Arizona and Texas Tech, border conference aces, play Pomona and Texas Mines, respectively. Brigham Young leads the Rocky Mountain Big Seven into action against Arizona Teachers OF Flag staff. On the West Coast, washington State is the first conference team to play, meeting Gonzaga. Amos Alonzo Stages College of the Pacific team starts off Stages 50th season of coaching against South Dakota, while Loyola of Los Angeles plays Redlands. Midwestern preliminaries include Iowa State of the Big Six against Coe and Detroit against Western Michigan Teachers. The best pairing of q bakers dozen in the East is Providence against Rhode Island.

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San Francisco leads 2–⁠1–⁠1 in four meetings.