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  Evening star, District of Columbia, October 30, 1939, page 16 (results column)

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  Cornell Triumph Boosts Eastern Grid Prestige Southeastern Honors Probably at Stake In VoI-L. S. u. Tilt NEW YORK, Oct. 30-The pay. off” month of the college football season-November- this week with just the kind of games that can be expected in the more i’m portant half of the campaign. The first half of the battle for ma tional honors, winding up last Saturday, produced about the results that could be expected. There were innumerable “upsets” at the start, dwindling in number as the teams began to show real strength and weakness The end of October found not more than II unbeaten race for the mythical national crown Starting part 2. the major” unbeaten and united teams are: East-Cornell, Duquesne. Catholie: South-Tennessee, Kentucky: MidWest-Notre Dame, Michigan; Southwest-TeXas A. and NJ; Rocky Mountain-Colorado Mines; Pacific Coast-Oregon State, San Jose (CalifJ State. Tied but still undefeated are Dart mouth and Georgetown, in the aEst; Tulane. North Carolina and Rich mond, in the South: Nebraska and Oklahoma. in the Midwest; South ern California and U. c. L. A.. on the West Coast, and Utah (tied twice., in the Rocky Mountain Big Seven. Not All in Title Pack. Not all of these teams, of course, can be considered national title prospects. BY the same token, there are lot of real contenders which have been beaten. often by the one point that sometimes spells the diff ference between a perfect season and ruined one Contenders for sectional and conference championships take in a lot more ground. The situation, by Sec tions. shapes up like this for the first week end of November: East-1ts been long time since any one team did so much to aid the prestige OF Eastern football as Cornell did last Saturday by whip ping Ohio State. 23-l4. after spot ting the Big Ten ‘‘powerhouse” the first two touchdowns. That triumph automatically installed the big red team as the East’s No. / power, and next Saturdays game against CO. lumbia, despite the Lions decisive 26–⁠7 win over Virginia Military, shouldn’t hurt Cornells stock. Duquesne, 1870 winner over Texas Tech Friday, faces another stiff in tersectional test against Marquette. and Catholic. 14–⁠0 winner over Miami, meets Tulsa of the Missouri Valley Conference. Dartmouth encounters its traditlonally troublesome enemy. Yale, but off the Green’s easy 1910 win over Harvard and Yale’s 27–⁠7 licking by Michigan, Dartmouth figures to remain undefeated. Georgetown, after beating George Washington, TO, meets West Virginia. which tied South Carolina, 6–⁠6, Friday. The biggest games on the Eastern schedule pit Army, which hasn’t | shown much this season. against Notre Dame and Harvard against Princeton. which tuned up with a 26–⁠12 win over Brown. Notre Danes flne unbeaten team just managed to stave of Carnegie Tech, 7–⁠6, while the Cadets routed Ursinus, 46-l3. Penn Encounters Navy. Pennsylvania, knocked out Of the picture by 30–⁠6 licking from North Carolina, meets Navy, 15–⁠7 victim OF Clemson. Fordham, which came back as an Eastern threat by whip ping Pitt, 27–⁠13, tackles Rice’s hap less Owls in an intersectional test. New York u, 14–⁠13 winner over a stubborn Georgia team. eases of against Lafayette. Boston College and Holy Cross, still ranked among the Eastern leaders, play Auburn and Providence, respectively. South-1t’s Tennessee, the Nationa ranking team in last weeks Associated Press poll, against Louisiana State with the Southeastern Confer ence title as the probable stake. The volunteers knocked of Mercer, ITO, while L. S. U. turned back Wander bilt. 1876. Kentucky, co-leader with Tennessee, Georgia Tech and Tulane, faces Alabama, which turned back Misslssippi State. 10, in another major battle. Mississippi beaten for the flrst time by Tulane. 1876, encounters Vanderbilt. Georgia Tech plays Duke, which gained a second-place tie in the Southern Conference with a hard-won 60 decision over Wake Forest. Tulane has an open date. North Carolina. with the South ern Conference pack on its heels, returns to its own league to play North Carolina State, while Rich mond tackles v. NJ. I. Virginia meets Chicago and Miami plays Texas Tech in the South’s best intersectional tilts. Buckeyes in Stage Center. Midwest-In spite of that thumping from Cornell, Ohio State plays the leading role in the Big Ten, fac ing Indiana. The Bucks still are tied with Michigan for the confer ence lead, while Indiana’s Hoosiers, idle last week. are real threat. Michigan should win another from Illinois, 1870 victim of Northwestern. Northwestern plays Minnesota’s so far disappointing team, and Iowa, 1913 winner over Wisconsin, plays (See FULLERTON, Page A-l8)

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Catholic leads 3–⁠1 in four meetings, counting the one since this game.