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Show Games This Week to Decide Who Plays in Rose Bowl from its skirmish with Notre Dame. Tha Fighting Irish are host to lows at South Bend. Army has the week off preparing for the Navy game. College of the Pacific Pa-cific conqueror of Utah, 45-6, goes against Fresno State. Mew-ami Baylor, shouting forth host role in the Cotton bowl, have tough battles on their hands. Baylor Bay-lor goes against Southern Methodist Meth-odist at Dallas, and Rica plays at Texas Christian. . One-beaten Rice conquered the Texas Aggies Saturday, 13-0. The Owls' play Baylor, which lost for the first time a week ago, in the season finale Nov. 26. Detroit clinched at least a share of the Missouri Valley conference title by whipping St. Louis Sunday, 31-14. Santa Clara won over St Mary's Gaels, 19-6, in another Sunday Sun-day game. The best games In the south send North Carolina against Duke in the renewal of an old rivalry at Durham, and Tennessee against Kentucky at Lexington, Ky. Besides the California-Stanford-Joust, ths west coast has another corker In the battle between Southern South-ern California and U C L A at Los Angeles. Dartmouth and Princeton headline head-line a lack-lustre eastern slsta. By WU1 Grlmsley ' 1 . NEW YORK, Nov. 14 UP It's bowl-plucking time again In college col-lege football, and two of tha juiciest juici-est postseason' plums may be grabbed off this week at Ann Arbor, Ar-bor, Mich, and Palo Alto.. Cal. Ohio 8tate will meet Michigan, the defending tltllst, fur tlia Big' Ten championship at Ann Abor. ' Unbeaten, untied California will play Improved Stanford at Palo Alto in the Pacific Coast headliner. If both prevail in these Important Impor-tant tests, the Buckeyes and Bears can start making traveling plans for Pasadena's Rose bowU Only a bit of additional light Is expected to be thrown on the other main New Tear's fixtures Saturday Satur-day as the slap-happy season swings into the home stretch. Pressure of the autumn grind continued to -take Its toll last week end, with these important developments: Cornell, Boston university and Wyoming were dumped ranks of the major undefeated - untied teams, leaving only 'six In the select list: Notre Dame, Army, Oklahoma, California. Virginia and College of tha Pacific. 2. Sixth -ranked Cornell and eighth-placed Michigan State saw their places in the first 10 Imperiled Im-periled by upsets. 3. Top-rated Notre Dame, held to even terms for a halt, exploded for four touchdowns in the final quarter to smother North Carolina, Caro-lina, 42-6, while Army, No. 2 in the Associated Press rankings, barely squeezed past Pennsylvania, 14-13. 4. Bowl-bound Oklahoma hur- dled one of Its main obstacles to a perfect season by whipping Missouri, Mis-souri, 27-T. Ohio 8tate and Michigan have similar records in the conference standings with four victories and one defest. A loss for the Buckeyes Buck-eyes would throw the Big Ten and the Bosebowl plrtura intn non. fusion. Michigan, as a guest two years ago, is ineligible to return to Pasadena. Pasa-dena. The Wolverines won over Indiana Saturday, 20-7, while Ohio State trumped Illinois, 30-17. California, only major team In the country unbeaten and untied for the last two seasons of regular play, continued its march by humbling hum-bling Oregon, 41-14. Stanford, however, promises to be tough. The Indians walloped Southern Cal a week ago, 34-13, and Saturday romped over Idaho, 83-0. Army became the only unblemished unblem-ished power in tha east after Dartmouth surprisingly took the measure of Cornell, sixth in ths national rankings, 16-7. Boston .university's bowl hopes were stabbed if not punctured by Maryland, which won, 14-13. Baylor Bay-lor put skids under Wyoming for the first time this year, 32-7. Ranking with these upsets was Oregon State's 25-20 last-period conquest of Michigan State. Of the teams defending clean slates, Oklahoma and Virginia, appear ap-pear to be In about as much jeopardy jeop-ardy aa California. The Sooner entertain Santa Clara, the team that handed them their last setback set-back in the opening game of 1048. Virginia goea against Tu-lane, Tu-lane, the erratic Dixie Titan that aeema to be just now recovering |