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Show MMY- MAW TD1LT TO BSMV M2am a, I e . e Duke Faces Panthers in -Final5crap By HENRY Sin.R I'nited Press Sports Wrltrr NEW YORK, Nov. 23 With the exception of New Yesr games and a few scattered December offerings, football bows from the national scene this week with a double-barreled program on Thanksgiving and Saturday. The turkey day schedule will be featured by the Alabama-Vandfr-bilt classic in which the Southeastern Southeast-ern conference championship is at stake. The largest crowd of the season approximately 102.000 personswill per-sonswill fill Philadelphia's municipal munici-pal stadium for Saturday's big game Army-Navy. From a national standpoint, however, Fordham-N. Y. V. and " Pittsburgh -Dukr an Saturday Brw-" far more Important than the colorful col-orful clash between the Middies and the Cadets. The eyes of California will be on the east during those two days of competition, for Fordham, Pittsburgh Pitts-burgh and Alabama, all undefeated, are the leading candidates to oppose op-pose the Golden Bears in the Rose bowL California reportedy will wait ntll Monday, when the final results re-sults are In, before selecting Its opponent. I Alabama, heading the southeast i division with five victories, closes Its season against Vanderbllt. which la tied for second with Louisiana State. Another perfect record eleven, elev-en, Colorado, ends its season against Denver, with the latter In a position to tie Colorado for the Rocky Mountain Moun-tain title if it can upsst ths Buffa-los. Buffa-los. Santa Clara, the nation's other undefeated and untied team, ends its season against Gonsaga on Sunday. Sun-day. The throe undefeated but tied elevens still In training Fordham, Ford-ham, Plttaburgh and Holy ( rose finish Saturday. Fordham, Whose only blemish is a tie with Pittsburgh, meets a N. Y. D. team which hopes to repeat last year's upset victory which Maated the Barns' Rosa bowl ehanees. Ths program: East Thanksgiving pairings light, featuring Brown-Rutgers, Pennsyl- vania - Cornell, Duquesns - Detroit, Western Maryland-Providence and West Virginia-George Washington. On Saturday, N. Y. U.-Fordham and Army-Navy top the program. Two other games pair Boston college-Holy college-Holy Cross and Columbia-Stanford. Midwest Both programs very light. On Thanksgiving, Kansas plays Missouri In a Big Six game. On Saturday Nebraska, defending defend-ing ehamptsa, meats Kansas State In the' gams which will arcida the eosiferssrM raoa. The big midwest mid-west gam Saturday features Notre Dame and Southern California. Cali-fornia. Bouth Three games, topped by Vanderbllt-Alabama, feature South- eastern conference competition en Thursday. Others are Kentucky-Tennessee Kentucky-Tennessee and Mississippi-Mississippi Stats. Conference gamss Saturday Sat-urday are Auburn-Florida, Georgia-Georgia Georgia-Georgia Tech and Loulslana-Tulans. In the Southern conference, where North Carolina has clinched the title, five gamss are scheduled Thursday Ciemson Furman, Davidson-Wake Forest. Maryland-W. and U, Richmond-W. and M. and V. M. L-V. P. I. Outside gamea are Cltadel-Oglethorpe, North Carolina-Virginia and Bouth Carolina-Cathoiie Carolina-Cathoiie U. Pittsburgh plays Duke In Saturday's only major southern gam. SiUlweatt Texas plays Texas A. and M. In the nly caMtfereao gam Thursday. S. M. li. meets T. C I', and Baylor plays Riea In Saturday's engagenwata. Riea leads the conference but the utoetne may eventually hinge an the sUea-S. M. V. gams Dw ruber 4- Artusssaa stays Tulsa ewtakle an Thsvsdajr, and an Saturday Cea-teaary Cea-teaary meets OUahanut Aggiea, Pacific coast Two Intersections! Kama) feature Saturday's program Baa Francisoa-Michigaa Stat and V,CL A.-Mlssourt Oregon plays th U. & Marina and Santa Clara, hoping for another trip to the Sugar bowl, end Its season Sunday against Gonsaga. No major gamea scheduled sched-uled for Thursday. |