Lafayette at Dartmouth

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  Evening star, October 23, 1939, page 16 (results column)

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  Several Section Leaders Meet Rugged Foes CorneII-Ohio Stute Match Tops Tits Of Pucesetters NEW YORK, Oct 23-Heading into the last week end of October, traditionally the middle of the foot ball season, those major teams that have managed to escape the plague OF upsets finally have begun to line up in something like orderly man. ner. The weaker or unluckier teams have been Weeded out so that each section has a single leader, or q small group of title contenders, and another bunch of challengers for | top rank. Considering only those which obviously have earned the rating of major teams, they lined up some thing like this: Undefeated and united teams: East-Duquesne, Cornell. Pennsylvania, Catholic University; South Tennessee, Kentucky. Mississippi: Midwest-Notre Dame. Michigan, Ohio State; Southwest-Texas A. and NJ; Rocky Mountains-Colo- RADIO Mines; Pacific Coast-Oregon State. Undefeated but ttied-East-Dartmouth, Georgetown, Rutgers; South Tulane. North Carolina, Rich mond; Midwest-Nebraska Okla homa Rocky Mountains-Utah; Pacific Coast-Southern Califor- MIA, U. C. L. A. Cornell. Penn Standouts. It’s a small list, but the chances are the winner of this years myth ical national title, as we’ll as most of the conference championships, is included Reviewing the situation by Sec tions, here are the prospects for the immediate future: East: The elimination of Pitts burgh’s Panthers by scrappy Duquesne team, 21-l3. left the race wide open The Dukes hadn’t shown much before Saturday, but then they automatically became the No. l team. They may join the alsorams Friday night when they face the Wide-open Southwestern brand of football as demonstrated by Texas Tech Cornell, triumphant over Penn State. 47–⁠0 and Penn, 22–⁠7 victor over Harvard, stand out among the Ivy League teams and get chances this week to win national fame. Cornell plays Ohio State. Big Ten co-leader. at Columbus, while Penn takes on North Carolina, Southern Conference pacesetter, which pro- / NriI 0f CT II, prises by tying Tulane. 14–⁠14 Dart mouth. after whipping Lafayette, 14–⁠0. meets Harvard. Big Job for Carnegie Tech. New York University. beaten by North Carolina. bounced back into the picture by stopping Carnegie Tech, 1888 leading Eastern team, 6 TO 0. and should take Georgia handily Carnegie meets mighty Notre Dame in its first comeback effort. Pitt-Fordham. Colgate-Holy Cross and Arkansas–Villanova are other standout games. South: Tennessee. last years Southeastern Conference champion, has lived up to early-season ballyhoo with a 21-o triumph over Ala bama and shares the conference lead with Kentucky, 1876 winner over Georgia. They play Mercer and Xavier of Cincinanti, respectively, Saturday. Two of their most inn portant rivals, Mississippi and Tulane, collide at New Orleans. Georgia Tech, which beat Vanderbilt. l4–⁠6, plays Auburn. TO upset VIC (See FULLERTON, Page AID

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Dartmouth leads 3–⁠1 in four meetings, counting the two since this game.