Show Harvard Big Favorite on Yale Eleven By PAT ROBINSON International News Sports Writer NEW YORK Nov 17 Either 17 Either the Broadway bookies have grown surprisingly surprisingly surprisingly sur sur- generous or they are far out of line on their prices for some of this weeks week's traditional football games Traditional games are always a fertile field for upsets Teams that figure to be slaughtered often rise to heights of frenzied inspiration to beat an ancient rival Take Tale the annual Yale Harvard-Yale classic for example Measured by any yardstick a very ery good Harvard team figures to wallop a stumbling and oft beaten Yale outfit and so the 3 to 1 the books are offering seem seena justified But Butin Butin Butin in games like this one past performances performances performances per per- can be tossed out the thew w window Purdue also seems to rate the I 5 S Sto to 2 quoted on them to beat Indiana in their battle for the old oaken bucket but here again Id I'd rather take the odds than lay them And Notre Dame may outclass Northwestern as much as their 2 to 1 price but the result may be a different different different dif dif- dif dif- ferent story The one sure bet of the day among traditional rivals seems to tobe tobe tobe be the 6 to 1 on Illinois to beat Chicago Chicago if if anybody could be found to bet on Chicago even at that price Duke Looks Good Duke seems reasonably priced at 4 to 1 lover over North Carolina State I and Georgetown looks like lilee a shoo- shoo in at the same figures over Mary Mary- land Lafayette also looks like a lead pipe cinch at 16 to 5 over Le- Le high But one wonders if Stanford can be as weak as the 16 to 5 S on California indicates There may be a surprise or two I for the favorites among the 3 to 1 I group and the smart punter probably probably probably proba proba- bly will accept less odds and ask for points on some of the short end- end ers Anyhow here they are Boston Boston Boston Bos Bos- ton college over a corking little St. St Anselm's team Villanova over Boston Boston Boston Bos Bos- ton university Pitt over Penn State Texas Tech over New Mexico Texas Christian over Rice Utah over Wyoming Wyoming Wyoming Wyo Wyo- ming and Tulane over Sewanee Fordham Favored We Ve find Fordham listed at 5 to 2 over South Carolina a team good goodenough goodenough goodenough enough to tie Villanova and beat Duquesne And the same price goes for Idaho over Utah Kansas State over Washburn and Missouri over St. St Louis There also are some tempting possibilities possibilities pos pos- in the 2 to 1 bunch with the following first named as favorites favorites favorites favor favor- ites Brigham Young-Colorado Young Ag Ag- gies Miami Duquesne-Miami Georgia Tech-Florida Tech San Gon Francisco-Gon- zaga and Michigan State Detroit is quoted at 9 to 5 over Tulsa and Auburn the same over II Georgia Ohio State is rated 8 to 5 over Michigan i and a punter shouldn't need much courage to take the short end of that one Marquette also Is 8 5 over Arizona Arizona Ari Ari- zona zone Southern Methodist i over Baylor Creighton over oyer North Da Do Dakota Dakota Da- Da kota kola State Oklahoma over oyer lo Iowa va State and Washington over Ore Ore- gon Wisconsin is 6 to 5 to beat Minne Minne- sota The following three games are generally listed at 9 to 10 and pick em although you can get asgood as asgood asgood good as 6 to 5 on some of them if you care to shop around Nebraska- Nebraska Iowa West Manhattan-West Virginia and Princeton There they are and let your conscience conscience conscience con con- science be your guide |