Army at Princeton

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  Evening star, Washington, D.C., November 25, 1940, page 1 (results column)

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  Rose BowIGame For Minnesota Up 70 Big Ten Fordhom, Penn State, ‘Bumu Are Considered For Orange Bowl NEW YORK, Nov. 25.-This week the football season gets down to what might be called the seminal or ‘you-pick- stage. That’s the time when the main interest is in trying to guess what teams will bowl games January l. Barring possible, but unlikely, up sets this week, the leading Rose and Sugar Bowl candidates are the five major” teams that still are undefeated and untied-Boston College, Tennessee, Texas A. and M, STAN ford and Minnesota. Unbeaten Lafayette got all steamed up last night over an Orange Bowl invitation only to hear it was just a “feeler,” and that Fordham, Penn State, Boston College and other Eastern teams are under consideraton, with Alabama and Mississippi State among the possible Southern entries. Mississippi State is one of the tied but unbeaten teams. The other, Texas Tech, and undefeated-untied | Hardin Simmons also may be in / line for bowl bid. Minnesota Likely in Line. The prospects for a Big Ten Pacific Coast meeting between STAN ford and Minnesota are looking brighter, while Tennessee VS.. Boston College loom as the most likely Sugar Bowl lineup. Minnesota finished its Western Conference sweep by whipping Wis consin, 22–⁠13, after spotting the Badgers the first Is points. The Gophers’ chances of going to Pasadena depend upon favorable action by the conference faculty members at their meeting December CT. While sentiment seems to be swing ing in favor of such a game, that may be too late. Stanford, idle last week, winds up Saturday against its ancient rival, California, and the bowl invitation usually comes right after the final game. Tennessee, victorious over Ken lucky, $50, still has to dispose Of Vanderbilt next Saturday, and Boston College, which walloped one strong Southeastern Conference team, Auburn, 1877, still has to get past Holy Cross. Since both their rivals have been beaten frequently, these assignments don’t look especially hard for the Volunteers and the Eagles. | Texas Ags Face Texas. The Texas Aggies also have to go through the formality of clinching their second straight Southwest Conference championship and COM pleting an unbeaten season when they meet Texas Thursday. They also were idle last week. Lafayette finished its unbeaten season by beating Lehigh, $50; Hardin-Simmons, which plays little Howard Payne Friday night, beat San Francisco University, 28-l8; Mississippi State helped clear Tennessee’s path to the South eastern Conference title by beating Mississippi, 1870, to put the Rebels out of the running. Texas Tech had a week off in preparation for Saturdays clash with New Mexico | 1912, conqueror of Arizona. Surveying the status of other teams by sections, the situation Is / about this: East-After Boston College Holy Cross, the colorful, tradition-laden Army–Navy game at Philadelphia Is | this weeks only game of national interest with Fordham-New York University and Duquesne- Carnegie as added attractions. Penn Leads ivy” Group. Once-beaten Fordham and Du- | quesne both are candidates for second ranking in the section. The Dukes moved up by beating VIII lanova, 14–⁠0, last week while Pitts burgh knocked Penn State down out of the unbeaten-tied class with 20–⁠7 trouncing. Georgetown, beaten only by Boston College, didn’t gain much pres tige by defeating George Washing ton, 80. The top honors in the informal ivy League” go to Pennsylvania, | 1920, conqueror of Cornell in the most surprising as well as the most exciting game last week. Harvard furnished another surprise in this group by the decisiveness of its, $50, victory over Yale. Army took a 26–⁠19 licking from Princeton while preparing for the | Navy game while Holy Cross tuned up for Boston College by beating Manhattan, 1925. Columbia. 2o-17. winner over Colgate, and Brown. which lost to Dartmouth, 20–⁠6 meet in a second” Thanksgiving Day contest. Observation-Disclosures, with a 400 rout of its old rival, Ohio State and Northwestern, 200 winner over (See FOOTBALL, Page A-I6)

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Princeton leads 6–⁠4–⁠3 in 13 meetings, counting the three since this game.