| Show Gophers lead Grid Teams J 1 rT Top lop op Squads Meet Final Hard Tests By BILL BONI I NEW YORK Nov No 26 Now UP-Now UP Now that Minnesota has hM finished its season with eight str straight victories and the Western conference football football football foot foot- ball champIonshIp hip it is going to take nothing short of an earthquake earthquake earthquake earth earth- quake or its equivalent equivalent-a alent a a startlingly startlingly start- start lingl impressive final performance perform perform- ance by Texas A A. and M. M I. I Stanford or Boston college college to to dislodge the Gophers from No 1 position in inthe inthe inthe the Associated Press ranking poll One week away from the final rankings Minnesota heads the list with points points 86 86 more than the Aggles more than Stanford and more than Boston college Of the voters in this seventh weekly roundup of national opinion opinIon opinion ion 88 plunked for the Golden Gophers as first choice 46 46 for second 21 for third 13 for fourth one for lor fifth fUth and a solitary unbeliever unbeliever un un- un believer for eighth place For each of the next three teams there is a critical game on tap this week The need to tame Jack Crain Grain and Texas Thursday in order to have two successive seasons without defeat or tie and to become the first successful defending defending defending de de- de- de fending champions in the Southwest Southwest Southwest South South- west conference Stanford coast conference doormat doormat doormat door door- mat in 1939 must get by its traditional traditional traditional tra tra- traI I rival California Saturday for undisputed right to tread the welcome mat that leads into the theRose theRose theRose Rose bowl Boston similarly will come face to face with an ancient and honored foe Holy Cross which the Eagles need to beat to clinch what they feel sure will be an invitation invitation in in- In- In to play in New Orleans' Orleans Sugar bowl New Years Year's day Of the first six teams in this weeks week's standing only one has been beaten That is Michigan which lost by one point to Minnesota but wound up its season so impressively ImpressIvely impressively im Im- by trimming Ohio State I 40 0 that three of the experts put I the Wolverines at the head of the parade and 96 others made them i fifth or sixth Thus Tommy Harmon Barmen and com crom- company company pany came in ahead of unbeaten and untied Tennessee with 1042 points to for the Vols Vole who make their final stand of the regular regular regular regu regu- lar season Saturday against Van- Van Dropped out of the first 10 with witha a resounding thud is Cornell The already had lost considerable considerable considerable consid consid- erable favor for their showing in inthe inthe th the game they conce conceded ed to Dartmouth Dartmouth Dartmouth Dart Dart- mouth and last Saturdays Saturday's 22 20 I loss to Penn was the blow that I pushed them down to thirteenth place With Cornell out the last four spots went in order to Northwestern Northwestern Northwestern North North- western beaten by Minnesota and Michigan but which was the team I that most conclusively burst the I Notre Dame bubble Nebraska Big Six champion which plays plas its last game against Kansas State Saturday Saturday Saturday Satur Satur- day and Georgetown and Penn each of which came through its schedule with only enly one loss though Penn in addition was tied by Har Har- vard One undefeated major team Mississippi State should have s a good chance to crack the select 10 in next weeks week's final standings I The Maroons held to a tie tle by Auburn Auburn Au Au- I Au-I burn for its only way part-way black mark will play Alabama defeated only by Tennessee Saturday and anda a showing equaling that against Mississippi last week end might lift State up from eleventh place The standings points on 8 9 7 6 etc basis place first-place votes in parentheses 1 Minnesota 88 1562 1582 2 Texas A A. A and M. M 41 1476 3 Stanford 15 1264 4 Bo Boston ton college te 15 1114 5 5 Michigan 3 31 1042 6 Tennessee 8 7 Northwestern 8 Nebraska ka 9 Georgetown 7 3 10 Penn Penn 37 3 Second Ten Ten 11 Mississippi State 14 13 1 12 Washington ln ton c 7 3 13 4 him r l Cornell Cornel 87 7 3 14 85 15 Santa Clara 59 7 3 16 Southern Metho Metho- dint diet 34 17 Alabama 16 36 12 2 tie fo for 18 Texas Tech and Lafayette 7 each tie lie for 20 Duke and 5 each Also Ale ran ran UTAH 4 Oklahoma 3 Pa Pa- Lutheran Rice Notre Dame Clemson Clemson Clem Clem- son 2 each St St. Mary Mary's and Duque Duquesne ne 1 each |
