Show I DUKE t MAY PLAY IN ROSE SE OWL BOWL Wades Wade s Team Leads Dixie On Gridiron By LESLIE AVERY United Press Sports Writer J NEW EW YORK Oct 19 Thirteen 19 Thirteen 1 cf the nations nation's leading football machines ma ma- chines hitherto u unstopped topped were out Of f th running for the mythical national national national na na- na- na championship today after a weeke week end nd of grid upsets Nine of the teams met defeat and andl four tour were held to scoreless ties leaving only 16 elevens still boastin boast- boast jn in clean records l The east lost two of its major contenders Pittsburgh and Price Price- ton but the Pacific coast was in nearly Dearly as bad fix after Its three major mal maI ma ma- l I jor jar teams Southern California Washington State and St. St Marys Mary's were held to scoreless ties I Vols Block Path Wallace Wade whose Alabama quads made Rose Bowl history has what chat looks like a winner in his Duke Blue Devils If he can get I through the Tenn Tennessee Vols next week the rest of his schedule is a aC C cinch The Devils Devils' looked mighty good while thile romping over the previously unbeaten Golden Tornado eleven from Georgia Tech 19 However if the Vols are as hot this week as they were last Saturday when they held undefeated Alabama to a 0 tie the Duke boys may encounter encounter ter trouble Pitt championed as the east's f contender for the Rose Bowl fell by the wayside when a Duquesne halfback halfback half half- back ran 72 yards for a touchdown the only score of the game which projected the little Pennsylvania school into Rose Bowl consideration Yale spilled Navy 7 12 and Army beat Harvard 32 0 but members of the big three and the service schools have never shown any in inclination inclination inclination in- in to favor the annual Pasa- Pasa dena den extravaganza with their pres pres- ence Fordham who beat Waynesburg Waynesburg Waynesburg Waynes- Waynes burg 6 20 and Holy Cross with a 7 13 37 triumph over Manhattan still boast clean records I North Carolina also kept its bid alive aUve by edging out N. N Y U. U 14 13 in one of New Yorks York's Saturday inter- inter sectionals Tulane with a tie against its record kept Dixie's banner high highby by smashing Colgate 6 28 in the other Wins jS No 20 Since it is against western conference conference con con- ference terence rules for members to engage engage en en- f gage in postseason exhibitions I Minnesota which scored its twentieth i straight win 26 0 over Michigan Michigan Michi Michi- f. f gan and Northwestern which kept its slate clean by upsetting Ohio State 14 13 cannot be considered for the Rose festival These two headline the October 31 grid program program pro pro- gr gram m when Northwestern entertains the Gophers at Evanston Notre Dame rocked Wisconsin I 27 0 and today seems the middle west's wesl's best bet for a Rose Bowl berth but Michigan State Marquette Marquette Marquette Mar- Mar quette and Villanova haven't a ablack ablack ablack black mark against them Purdue I also unbeaten and untied belongs to the Big Ten and cannot be consid- consid red credo Texas A. A M. M emerged with an 0 18 decision over Texas Christian the only one to keep a clean slate slate the in the southwest while little Santa I Clara blanked San Jose State 9 20 t to o boast the only white snow-white record on the Pacific coast |