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Show : - ' , Buffs Scrap Denver for Title-Stake I R. M. C. Standings W L T Prt. P OP Colorado V S 0 0 1 (KM) 200 1.1 Druvrr U . . . . B 1 O M.I3 97 20 Wsstsrr. Stat . . .1 1 V 7.SU 40 24 Bnsriam Young S 2 0 714 120 2S t'tah Unlvsrsltv 4 1.' 0 B67 99 4:1 0!oralu Collafa 3 .! 0 VIO 38 S4 t'tah Star, ... 2 3 1 400 47 125 firr!,jr Hlata . . 2 3 0 4(H) Tl S3 Wyoming IV ... 1 4 0 2U 26 f3 Colorado Mm,, .15 0 117 19 137 Colorado Xtatt .ISO 143 S 133 Montana Stalt .031' .000 39 77 Taerasay'e Brheeaie Colorado va. Denver at Denver. Utah State va. Utah at Salt Lake Cltf. (reeley State va. Wyoming at Laramls. Whitman rollega va. Colorado collega St Colorado Springs. Colorado State va. Artaona at Turaoa. Western State va. New alexico Military at Roawell. laat Week'e Heaulta Colorado Slate a. Colorado collega a. Brigham Voting 19. Montana Stale O. (Ireelev State 32. Colorado Mines 8 Branch o. By BILL M'CKKA Colorado "U" Buffalos. who share with Santa Clara's Broncos the honor of being the only two major undefeated and untied football teams in the west, is a 5-3 favorite to annex the R. M. C. title Thursday Thurs-day by defeating Denver "U" in the Colorado capital city. Thanks to Idaho, the rampaging rampag-ing Buffalos found themselves nearer the hall of fame becauM the Yandala obliged Saturday with a. 8-e victory over Montana, a team which has been rhallenging C. 1. for mythical titular honor hon-or In the intermountain territory terri-tory for many weeks. . The Buffalos are favorites over Denver for just one reason Byron "Whiszer" White who has mors or less personally accounted for most of the Colorado triumphs, his greatest great-est single achievement coming against Utah, when he tallied all 17 points in his team's 17-7 beating of the Redskins. Traditional Game Although there is nothing at stake except traditional rivalry of many years standing, the second most important game in the conference confer-ence on Turkey day takes place in Salt Lake City, with the Utes and Utah State Aggies tangling again. Utah is an odds-on favorite to annex the fray, but Coach Dick Romney of the Loganites reporu his team in much better physical condition than when it lost M-0 to Brigham Young 10 day ago. Only three players, Elvin "Tarvan" Way-ment. Way-ment. center: Ira Winger and Don I Walters, backs, will be out of the game due to injuries. Bernard "Scooter" Magnusson, Aggie captain and chief offensive threat, will be ready for the battle and his punting ability, which has been sorely missed in recent AgRie games, should materially aid the Farmer cause. Coach Ike Armstrong of the I'tcs aaid Monday: "I'll be satisfied satis-fied if we win by one point and all this talk about the Aggie k- ( Continued on Following Page) Buffalos Battle Denver for Title (Continued from preceding Page) Ing surh a weak outfit Is going to make those Farmers Just mad enough to he awfully tough pickings pick-ings for ua," With the exception of Dewey Gunn, tackle, who is still in the hospital recovering from a broken leg suffered in the Colorado game, Norman "Red" Page, guard, and Ernie Baldwin, guard and center, who both have leg injuries, the Redskins Red-skins are deemed ready for the battle. Starts at 1:30 p. M. Thursday's kickoff, as is customary custom-ary on the holiday, is scheduled at 1:30 p. m. A number of half time stunts are being planned by Utah and Utah State student bodies. Colorado State, the team which has been kicked around all season, finally won a ball game last Saturday Sat-urday as they scored their first touchdown nt th Mtnniipn mnA downed Colorado college 6-0. Other Thanksgiving day games send Greeley State against Wyoming Wyo-ming at Laramie, Whitman at Colorado Colo-rado Springs against Colorado college, col-lege, Colorado State against Arizona Ari-zona at Tuftcon and Western Suite against New Mexico military institute insti-tute at Roswell. White needs just one more touchdown touch-down to break the R. M. C. scoring i record of 103 points held bv Earlj 'Dutch" Clark. White now has 8 points scored in 1937 conference I games. |