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Show Army Slips Back to 4th in Grid Poll As Oklahoma, California Gain By Jack Head NEW YORK, Nov. 15 WV It's, Notre Dame by a landslide In the aeventh weekly Associated Press poll with MK, of the experts. I The righting Irish's first-half scare against North Carolina apparently ap-parently didn't weaken their position. po-sition. On the strength of their final 42-6 victory over the Tarheels, Tar-heels, Coach Frank Leahy's men. were first on 140 of the 182 bal-l lota submitted by aporta writers and sportacasters across the nation. na-tion. Other members of the "big four" Oklahoma, California and Army which have been dominating the poll all season underwent a shake-up. I Because of Ita 14-1S squeaker against Pennsylvania, unbeaten Army fell from second to fourth and received only one first-place vote. Oklahoma's perfect-record Soon-era, Soon-era, 27-7 conquerors of Missouri, replaced Army aa the No. 2 team, drawing 15 firsts. California also slid past Army into the No. spot with Ave firsts after a 41-14 victory over Oregon. The other first-place vote went to ninth-place ninth-place Virginia. Fellow he Order Michigan. Rice, Ohio State. Minnesota. Min-nesota. Virginia and Southern Methodiat follow the "big four" in that order. Ohio, moving up to aeventh from 11th, and Southern South-ern Methodist advancing to 10th from 12th, are the newcomers, replacing Cornell and Michigan State. Cornell's all-winning march was ended by Dartmouth, 15-7. Aa a result the Big Red tumbled from seventh to 17th In the standings. Michigan State apparently played itself out against Notre Dame a week ago and loat to Oregon State 25-20 on the west coast Notre Dame, roaring back with four touchdowns in the last quarter quar-ter after a rough early struggle with North Carolina, atill haa Iowa, Southern California and Southern Methodist on its schedule. sched-ule. A loss to any of ths three would be a big upset Oklahoma's expected test by Missouri did not prove too difficult diffi-cult Now the Sooners face Santa Clara, beaten only by California and tied by Stanford. Santa Clara was the last team to beat Oklahoma. Okla-homa. California can wind up a perfect season sad nail down ths Rose bowl bid by whipping Stanford Stan-ford Saturday. Army Vs. Navy Army Is idle until IU Nov. 24 data with Navy at Philadelphia. Michigan. 20-7 winner over Indiana, In-diana, closes out Its year with a Big Tea title battle against Ohio Bute, which whipped Illinois Saturday Sat-urday 30-17. Rice, a 13-0 victor over the Texas Aggies, atill must play Texas Christian and Baylor. An early 14-7 loss of Louisiana State la the only blot on the Rice record. Minnesota, the No. 8 team on Its 24-7 win over Pitt winds up with Wisconsin, another team with a Big Ten title chance. Virginia was idle last week after Ita upeet of Penn. getting ready for its two remaining tougttlee Tulsne and North Carolina. Southern South-ern Methodist S4- winner over Arkansas, still haa three to play. After Baylor Saturday they face Texas Christian and Notre Dame. The total vote, with points figured fig-ured on s 10-0-S-7-S-5-4-S-2-1 basis (first-place votes In parentheses) : 1 Notre Dame (140) 15t2 2 Oklahoma (15) 1298 I California (5) 1252 4 Army (1) ,.1130 5 Michigan 78 Rice 54 7 Ohio 8tate 486 8 Minnesota 428 Vinrinla (1) 276 10 Southern Methodiat 14 The aeeoad IS 11, Kentucky, 150; 12. Stanford. 105: 13. Louisiana Louisi-ana Bute. 87: 14. Dartmouth, 75: 15. Baylor, 64; 16. Maryland, 52; 17. Cornell. 49: 18. Michigan State, 46: 18 and 2a Tulane and Santa Clara, each 4t |