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Show ; ! . : ' i - ' ' 1 ' Bears Must Win or Tie -ToHddTop By HERBERT W. BARKr.R NEW YORK, Nov. J5 (ifV-'Fhe fortunes of war, abetted by the rigors of modern football schedule making, had conspired to reduce the list of major undefeated teams to 12 today without affecting the unbeaten un-beaten status of the main contenders contend-ers for the mythical national championship. cham-pionship. Pitt and Fordham. in the east; Alabama, in the south, and California, Cali-fornia, in the far west, still were riding high with the end of an exciting ex-citing and unpredictable season in sight - With all due respect to the rest of ths undefeated field, it seems that If a generally recognised national titleholder is to come at all it will havs to corns from smong these four. Fret, rordhanf lead Pitt and Fordham stand out In the fjeld of seven unbeaten eastern teams because of their representative representa-tive schedules. None of the othrs Tsle, Dartmouth, Villanova, Holy Cross or Lafayette has been called upon to tackle such opposition as Pitt and Fordham have overpowered. overpow-ered. The same must be said for Santa Clara, Colorado and Montana, whose perfect records entitle them to give California at least a mild argument in the far west. Alabama, Ala-bama, although Its opposition has been almost entirely southern, stands as the south's lone unbeaten tnajor eleven. - A definite falling off is noted In the quality of this week's program pro-gram as many top flight eutflta rest before climax engagements en Thanksgiving day or meet second rate opposition In preparation prepara-tion for Important teste on November No-vember 27. High spots of the program follow: fol-low: East All seven unbeaten elevens will keep punching away this week. Pitt whose thrilling fourth period rally, led by Marshal Goldberg and Dick Cassiano ruined Nebraska's unbeaten record 13-7, can afford to take no chances with Penn State's pass minded Nittany Lions, who nosed out Maryland In the closing minutes of play 21-14. Fordham, idle last week, plays Its annual game with St Mary's Gaels, whose 7-0 defeat by Santa Clara yesterday simply emphasized the already established fact that the Gaels era definitely subnormal this year. Wolverines, who spilled Penn 7-0. Indiana, thankful to escape with a 3-0 victory over Iowa, meets Purdue. Kansas' stunning 7-o beating bv Kansaa State left Nebraska with a clear path to the Big Six title If the Hunkers can whip Kansas State on November 27. They play Iowa this week. Oklahoma, Okla-homa, which wound up ita conference confer-ence schedule with a 7-e victory over Missouri, meets Oklahoma A. and M. The Sooner can win the conference title if Nebraska loses to Kansas State. Only conference game on the slate this week sends Iowa State against Kansaa State. Missouri plays Washington university of St Louis and Kansas meets Arizona. South This is "armlstics week" in the Southeastern conference, where Alabama's 7-0 victory over Georgia Tech, coupled with Auburn's Au-burn's 9-7 defeat by Louisiana State, left the Crimson Tide certain to clinch the conference championship champion-ship if It can get past Vanderbilt on Thanksgiving day. Vanderbilt. disposing of Tennessee Tennes-see 13-7, now is in a second place tie with Louisiana State, with Auburn Au-burn just behind. A dull program this Saturday sends Auburn against Georgia, Georgia Tech against Florida and Tulane against Sewanee. Three-Way Race North Carolina's upset triumph over previously unbeaten Duke 14-. left the Southern conference chsss a three-cornered battle among North Carolina. Clemson and Maryland. Mary-land. North Carolina haa finished its conference schedule with four victories snd a tie. Clemson has won two games and Maryland one without defeat or tie. Duks plays North Carolina Stats in the sole conference gams this week, all the others waiting for ths grand finale on Thanksgiving day. Southwest Rice's 6-f draw with Texas A. snd M. left ths Owls still sitting safely In first place, but it is unlikely the championship will be decided until the closing games on December 4. This week the Owls tackle formidable for-midable Texas Christian, 14-0 victors vic-tors over Texas. Baylor, losing its second successive conference game in a 13-7 upset by Southern Methodist, Meth-odist, plays Loyola of Los Angeles. Far West The championship of ths Pacific Coast conference will be settled Saturday at Palo Alto, when California battles Stanford. California, 28-0 victor over Oregon, must win or tie to clinch the crown. Stanford, which routed Washington State 23-0, must win to tie the Golden Bears in the final standings. Traditional Clash Tals, with a tie with Dartmouth the only blot, matches ita undefeated unde-feated record against Harvard's powerful Crimson in the east's top ranking gams from ths standpoint of tradition. Clint Frank, Tale's great halfback, half-back, gave Harvard something to think about on Saturday, scoring all four touchdowns in the Ells' 26-0 I rout of Princeton. Harvard, mean-I mean-I while, was having trouble spilling Davidson 15-0. i Dartmouth, which had to come from behind to tie Cornell's formida-I formida-I ble outfit t-t in the rain and mud ! at Hanover, closes its campaign I against Columbia's Lions. Villa- nova, hard pressed to beat Boston university 12-0 Thursday, tackles Temple's Owls, who played their fourth scoreless tie of the year, this time with BucknelL Holy Cross, 7-0 victor over Brown, meets Carnegie Tech, beaten 13- by Michigan State. Lafayette, only eastern team with an unbeaten and untied record, closes . against its trsditionsl rival. Lehigh. Middle West The curtain falls on Big Ten competition, but the big game of the week will send Northwestern North-western against ths nonconference Irish of Notre Dame. Ths Irish handed Army a 7-0 beating before 78.000 In the Yankee stadium and might havs won by three or four touchdowns except for miserable playing conditions. A touchdown plunge by Ed Si-monich Si-monich after Jos Benoir had recovered re-covered an Army fumble provided ths margin of victory, but tha Irish tossed away several other scoring chances. Northwestern's 7-0 de-fest de-fest by Mlnnesoota will leave the Wildcats , definitely underdogs in ths gams with Notro Dams. Gophers Need Win Minnesota needs only to get past Wisconsin, which played a 7-7 draw with Purdue, to clinch the Big Ten title. If ths Gophers falter, Ohio Stats or, ss sn outside possibility, Indians, might slip into the crown. Ohio State, piling up a 19-0 margin mar-gin over Illinois, tackles Michigan's |