Houston at Villanova

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  Evening star, District of Columbia, October 23, 1954, page 12 (results column)

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  Fight for Bowl Bids Makes Three Cities Grid Capitals Today dIlk are prizes WHICH MAKE 70. Los Angeles and Little Rock the football capitals Of the Nation today. At Columbus, Ohio, two unbeaten n-untied giants Of the Big Ten-Wisconsin. No. 2 ranked nationally, and Ohio State, No. in a game which Mid west observers figure points the way to the conference cham pionship and the lush Rose Bowl assignment. The other end of the Pasadena Bowl axis conceivably could be determined at Los An geles where Southern California. the favorite, meets California in the highlight of the Pacific Coast campaign. UCLA, the dominant power on the coast and the country’s No. 3 team, is ineligible to return to the bowl, as is the Big Tens Michigan State, under the no-repeat rules of the ar Ole Miss Meets Arkansas. Little Rock is the neutral site of an interconference battle between two other undefeated elevens with definite bowl aspirations – Mississippi and Ar kansas. Mississippi, fifth ranked, has designs on the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans, while seventh rated Arkansas, surprise conquerer of Texas Christian, Bay lor and Texas on successive week ends, has its eyes on the Cotton Bowl at Dallas. BY an odd preseason arrange ment born of desperation, the Razorbacks could knock Ole Miss out of the Sugar Bowl by scoring a victory. but the Mississippians can’t hurt Arkansas Southwest Conference record. Unable to schedule the required six Southeast Conference games, Mississippi was permitted to count Arkansas a league test. Mississippi rules a 71a-point IA vorite. Others Have Easy Tasks. Most of the other teams in the top 10 circle have relatively easy assignments. An exception is unbeaten Minnesota, No. 8, which invades Michigan bare touchdown favorite in their ira ditional Little Brown Jug” series. Top-ranked Oklahoma has an other breather in Kansas State at Norman, Okla. UCLA is at Oregon State, which has been able to win only one of it’s four games. Notre Dame. No. 6, is idle. Army’s speedy, quick-hitting Cadets, buoyed by an impressive victory over Duke, are three touchdown favorites over Columbia in New York. West Virginia, unbeaten and united, is a heavy choice over Virginia Military Academy at Bluefield, West Va. Army is ninth-ranked and West Virginia, winner over Penn State a week ago, is No. 10. Pitt Game on TV. Television game Of the day in the Midwest, East, South and Southwest is the Pittsburgh Northwestern clash at Pitts burgh. The time is 1:25 pm. (EST). ct will be seen over WMAL, Channel Z, in Washing TOM A few interesting iptersectional encounters dot the map. Penn State jumps down to Texas to play Texas Christian while another Texas team, Southern Methodist. is host to Kansas. Navy tries to bounce back at Philadelphia against Penn, which has suffered four straight defeats. Fordham plays at Mar quette. The highlight in the East is the game at New Haven. Conn.,. between Yale and Colgate, both unbeaten. The South’s feature is Kentucky at Georgia Tech. Texas and Rice come to grips in the main conference attracton in the Southwest. Unbeaten Colorado is host to Nebraska in a Big Seven headliner. Houston Beats VillanOva. Miami’s 9–⁠7 defeat of Mary land featured last nights action. Houston turned back Villanova, 28–⁠7. before a grocery” crowd of 57,817 in Philadelphia. A gro- Gerry chain distributed tickets to customers who purchased $40 worth of goods. Jack Patterson scored three touchdowns and pitched for the other Houston score. Halfback Bob Burgmeier performed almost as well as Pat terson when he bulled over for three touchdowns in Detrolt’s 2S-18 Missouri Valley Confer ence victory over Tulsa. In other major games last night George Washington and William and Mary played a 1918 tie; Furman scored an expected triumph over Davidson 1877; Chattanooga won its fourth straight at-home game, 41–⁠6, from East Texas State and Dem yer knocked Wichita out of the unbeaten ranks, 27–⁠14.

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Houston leads 5–⁠1 in six meetings, counting the four since this game.