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  Evening star, District of Columbia, October 21, 1950, page 12 (results column)

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  Biggest Noise Is Due In Midwest With -Four Snappy Games on Tap Df inc AS3ocfdteo rTesS NEW YORK. Oct. 21.-The COL lege football spotlight swings today to widely scattered gridirons. providing nothing in the way Of an No. / battle of Titans unless 1t be the tussle between Southern Methodist and Rice at Houston. From a sectional viewpoint, the biggest noise is expected in the Midwest. where four interesting struggles are carded. The University of Washington HuSkies take on Illinois at Memo rial Stadium in Champaign, Ill. Washington, undefeated and united and rated the dark horse of the Pacific Coast Conference, will be anxious to regain prestige for West Coast football. The Illini, beaten by Wisconsin. 7–⁠6. nevertheless regard this years club the best since the champion ship outfit of 1916. Illinois defeated UCLA last week, 14–⁠6, and would like to get another crack at the Rose Bowl New Years Day. Wisconsin Plays Michigan. Wisconsin. winner of three straight, meets tough number in Michigan at Ann Arbor. while Ohio State and Minnesota clash at Minneapolis. Once mighty Notre Dame meets a dangerous rival, Indiana, at Bloomington. At Los Angeles. the meeting between Rose Bowl-minded Stanford and UCLA tops the Far Western program. California, unbeaten along with Stanford, should make it five in a row by taking Oregon State at Berkeley. In the South, capacity record house of $4,000 is due to sit in at Knoxville to see Alabama and Tennessee have it out. The win ner, provided there are no further slipups, probably will land in a major bowl game. Another top Southern contest finds Vanderbilt putting its unsullied record against Florida at Nashville. In the East, the Ivy League leaders-Yale and Cornell-have big date at Ithaca, N. Y, with the unbeaten Big Red favored to hand Yale its first loss. Breathers for 2 Top Teams Pennsylvania meets Columbia at New York in another game that usually produces fireworks. The Southern Conference lead will be at stake when George Washington plays at Wake Forest, and another interesting league tilt finds North Carolina State tang ling with Maryland at College Park. AS for the Nations No. l and 2 teams, Army and Oklahoma, they get breather. 1t should be like taking candy from a baby for Army against Harvard at Cam bridge. The same goes for Okla homa versus Kansas State at Norman, Okla. In the Southwest Conference, the Rice-SMU night game heads The program. A victory is necessity for SMU to retain its No. 3 national ranking. Texas, still a power despite it’s loss to Okla homa, entertains Arkansas at Austin. while at College Station, Texas Christian plays Texas A. and M Kentucky Meets villanova. Kentucky, the No. 4 team, travels to Philadelphia to meet Villanova. while Southern Cali fornia meets Navy at Baltimore in another intersectional clash. Playing on muddy Chattanooga field. the North Texas State Eagles scored on a pass in the closing seconds to defeat Chattanooga, 1914. Eagle Quarterback Zeke Martin fired a 12-yarder to Jim Stuart for the payoff touch down. In another thriller that was decided with four minutes to go, Hardin Simmons edged University of Houston at Abilene, Tex, 14–⁠13. Bob Blair sped the final As yards of 60-yard drive and Bill Col man made the conversion good to settle the issue. In other games San Francisco whipped San Jose State, 27-o, and Hawaii thumped College Of Idaho, 43-l4.

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Hardin Simmons leads 2–⁠1–⁠1 in four meetings, counting the one since this game.