Salt Lake Telegram | 1948-10-26 | Page 25 | Wolves Still Atop Nation's Grid Teams

Wolves s Still Atop Nations Nation's Grid Teams NEW V YORK Oct 26 W P-Michi- P Michi- Michi gans gan's rampaging Wolverines re refined retained re- re tamed fined their rating as as- th the e top college college col- col lege ege football team in iQ the country Tuesday in the weekly Associated Press poll of the nations nation's sports sportswriters sportswriters writers The powerhouse from Ann Arbor drew of the place fist votes and piled up 1885 points to beat out Notre Dame by points The Irish second also a week ago gained 19 place first-place votes and polled 1615 points Michigan unbeaten aten and untied in five fi outings downed Minnesota 27 14 last Saturday while the Irish surged to a 27 12 ictor victory over Iowa for or their fifth straight conquest of a perfect season North Carolinas Carolina's Tar Heels held heldon on to third place drawing 46 first- first place ballots and 1568 points points' The IrIsh as they did a week ago scored heavily In second-place second votes to o beat out North Carolinas Carolina's unbeaten squad for honors Points are figured on the basis basi of 10 10 for fora a first place nine for second and ana so on down the line to one for place California Army Georgia Tech and Pennsylvania also among th the nations nation's unbeaten teams retained fourth fourth- fifth sixth and seventh places respectively The Golden Bears who brushed past Washington 21 gained 33 13 place first-place votes and piled up 1239 points Army which turned back previously unbeaten Cornell 27 5 drew four place first-place ballots and wound up with 1214 points Georgia Tech finish finished d with points and one place first-place ot vote The Yellow Jackets rolled over Florida FlorId 42 Penn 20 14 conquerors of Navy drew points Missouri's Tigers moved up from ninth place to eighth replacing Penn State Missouri which turned back bac Iowa State 49 7 drew points Penn State held to a 14 H tie by Michigan State dropped out of the top 10 to place The point score with place first-place votes in parentheses points figures on basis of 7 6 I 1 Michigan 1835 2 Notre Dame 19 1615 3 North Carolina 46 1568 4 California 13 12 1239 5 Army 4 1214 6 Georgia T Tech 92 3 7 Pennsylvania 50 8 Missouri l ri 1 9 9 Northwestern 3 10 Ne Nevada Neda da 3 29 Second 10 11 Southern Methodist Meth Methodist odist 12 2 Penn State 1 13 Clemson 14 4 Oregon Oregon Oregon Ore Ore- gon 82 15 Minnesota 78 16 Oklahoma 1 64 17 7 Michigan State 61 18 8 Georgia 53 19 Tulane 51 20 Baylor Balor 45