Show NATIONAL GRID RACE 1 I Santa Clara Keeps Clean 1 Slate Again 1 t 4 By Dr BYJOE JOE WILLIAMS I Special eSpecIal to The Tho Telegram n r NEW YORK Nov 2 It If If there did happen to be be- beany any such thIn thing as asa asa asa a national football championship champIonship- which there Lt It It would b be ASi as i badly scrambled as u a technocrats technocrat's I mind today Because of ot its Ion long Ions string strini of consecutive cont con- con t successes dating over a M period of ot more than three years yearl there ro was a growing tendency i String Siring Snapped Br N New w Minnesota's list of 28 23 games In which It was unbeaten began with the tho first game In 1933 when the Gophers whipped South Dakota 19 to 6 Then came four ties Ues and andIn andin In the last lut game came of ot the season the Gophers began their atrin string of ot 21 consecutive victories by whipping Wisconsin 6 8 to 3 among amoni the critical gentry to accept Minnesota as the No 1 football team of ot the tho land land but but Minnesota lies mournfully among amoni the also abo rans rena today to to- da day For or tome some days day the feeling has ha persisted that the two leading team teams In the east were Fordham and Pittsburgh with a thin maJority majority ma- ma of otes going to the latt lat lat- t ter r. r It was wu fully u expected ded the i 1 Jn meeting In r between w n these t two giants n tree Ine ISSUe U IL Waal They played to a scoreless tie They may still b be the two leading t teams oam In the ra tad east t but which Is the better is an open question As a matter of ot fact there are lew few sections of ot the country where even th the matter of ot community superiority superiority superiority su su- su- su is Ls clearly defined Washington Wash Wash- ington continues to roll along alons with success In the far west but the little Santa Claras are doln doing all allright allright allright right out that way too To be bo specific elite they haven't been beaten yet True Tru enough a perfect record doesn't always denote power or class claH but the Santa Claras' Claras schedule hasn't been exactly soft They opened the season eason by turning back Stanford 0 13 they beat San Fran Fran- Cisco the ciaco-the the team which held St St. Marys Mary's to a scoreless deadlock deadlock and and d over o the weekend they walloped a good Auburn team from the dee deep p south I v And nd speaking of the deep south louth z t j there t u dant doesn't seem atm to o be an out out- l a sw warn Leant sown down mere dope was w that Duke would be the team of the tho year 5 ear ear but Duke wasn't able to handle a Tennessee team that had been en twice Ice flattened previously 1 Louisiana State hasn't been topped stopped In It Its own circle but the records record show the Raton Baton Rouge men were held even enn by Texas Neither elther Tulane nor Auburn has hast t been n whipped In the Southern i conference but when the they came together In their own game the i J score was 0 00 The situation is even more scram cram cramI scrambled I IY t r. r bled in the southwest st st. Going Into Saturdays Saturday's game Texas A. A and M. M hadn't been en beaten and their chances to win the sectional title rJ 1 were being weighed heavily But Arkansas already ady beaten Maten by Texas f. f Christian stopped them and now the tho race in the cattle country Is 15 wide open with Southern Meth Methodists od sI seeming to rank as favorites Remember how lucky Fordham was VAS VASto to beat them Huskers on Top Out In what Is known as u the Big Six Nebraska Is on top one of the few clearly established leaders Not that the game will have any bearIng bearing bearing bear bear- ing on the Big Bli Six title but the meeting between Nebraska and Pittsburgh week after next figures to be a tremendous thing Nebraska has been beaten Maten only by br Minnesota and this by a margin of a single touchdown By stopping the remarkable sweep of ot the winning all Minnesotans it would seem that the Wild Cats of ot Northwestern have automatically moved to the front of ot the national football parade And if logic can be applied to football that's just what they've thee done If Minnesota was vo-as the tho No 1 l team of the country it should follow that Northwestern I which stopped them must be bet bet- I i ter The records will wUl always show the Wild Cats won the ball game and they pay payoff off on the records Admitting Admitting Admit Admit- ting Ung that it was a fine performance by a game hitting hard well- well coached team the fact remains that it was something of ot a lucky win The Minnesotans were penalized to the yard one line Une in the last Jast quarter quarte and it was wu from this point with four downs to go the Wild Cats scored the only touchdown made all afternoon Rise Abo Above Tide Of Ot course theres there's another way to look Jook at it If the Minnesotans were as powerful and brilliant as u uthe the football world has been invited to believe they should have been good enough to rise above the adverse adverse adverse ad ad- verse turns of ot the game They should have been good enough to spot the Wild Cats a touchdown and still win Even so it was a discouraging wa way to lose Jose a a. game particularly |