Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-11-06 | Page 14 | Midwest Football Epicenter with Amazing List of Wins

I Midwest Football Epicenter With Amazing List of Wins By HERBERT W. W V. V BARKER Associated Press Sports Writer NEW YORK Nov 6 6 AP In AP-In- In- In records indicate the epicenter of ot Americas America's football earthquake Is in the middle west First-class First teams are found in m every very section but as a group those hose in the orn corn belt have havo piled up the most amazing record against representatives of other regions The Big Ten Notre Dame Michigan Michigan Michi- Michi gan an State Marquette and other midwestern midwestern mid- mid western vestern powers powers powers' have rolled up 19 victories victori in intersectional combat against nine defeats for an average of f Big Ten members have won eight games games' of ot this classification against only one defeat purdue startling 7 0 0 reversal at the tho hands of ot Car Car- negie The Pacific coast ranks second in Intersectional averages averages with two t victories and one defeat but the only major intersectional game a coast conference team has played resulted in Southern California's 0 19 setback by Illinois The two victories victories vic- vic tories ories were scored over teams from the he neighboring Rocky mountain conference Southwest t Strong Stron Its record of six victories and four defeats falls taUs to show the real power lodged in the southwest conference The leaders co-leaders Southern Methodist and Texas Christian have played only one Intersectional game between between between be be- tween them them- Christian beating Cc Centenary Centenary Cen Cen- I 27 It was the worst defeat a Centenary Centenary Cen Cen- I Cen-I team has taken at home in years Rices Rice's Owls have carried most of the southwest's burden in other fields Starting oC off with a 7 10 conquest conquest conquest con con- quest of Louisiana State the State the only game L. L S. S U. U has lost the lost the Owls followed through h with a 7 27 triumph triumph tri tri- over Duquesne and a 41 0 lacing of George Washington Neither the South nor noi nor the east can point with much pride to their Intersectional accomplishments The south has won 11 and lost 14 majar major major ma ma- jor jar en engagements of oC this kind the cast east 12 and 18 South Wins ins Few The south's principal successes were achieved by Mississippi State and Tulane the the former by its upset upset upset up up- set of Army 7 13 and Tulane by its 6 14 victory over Colgate Louisiana State and North Carolina Carolina Carolina Caro Caro- lina State took turns walloping Manhattan a team good enough to tie Holy Cross Cro which ranks as one of the eastern leaders The cast east cn find some comfort in Carnegie's great performance against Purdue and in Boston colleges college's colleges college's colleges college's col col- col- col leges lege's ev even n more startling upset of Michigan State a team otherwise unbeaten Michigan's victories over Columbia Colum Colum- bill bia and Penn on successive weekends weekends weekends week week- ends give the Wolverines top position position position tion in the Big Tens Ten's Intersectional table Minnesota Purdue Illinois Indiana Indiana Indiana In In- diana Ohio State and Iowa have helped numbering such teams as S T Tulane lane Colgate Fordham and Kentucky Kentucky Ken Ken- tucky among the victir victims