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Show Nation's Grid Teams Start TitleDrives By HUGH . IIXLEBTO! tWU NXW YORK Oct 3 IS With one eye on the box office and the I other on the mythical national I c hinpl onthlp. mmmMmmmmrmmm tat nation's loading load-ing football teams ' launch an Impressive Im-pressive intersec-tlonal intersec-tlonal program this nek which . may bo of benefit v both ways, i . ' Already off to f a good start with iueh imprssslve results at) Pittsburgh's Pitts-burgh's 27-g victory vic-tory over Willi. tngton, M 1 a a e- Alt (mil's (3-0 rout . . of Art-one. Mlss- , iMlppI State's 1 to 0 triumph over Arkansas, the 30-0 boating Missouri handed Colorado and Venderbllt's 13-12 upsot of Rico last Saturday, the Intorooctlonal warfare spreads even mora widely. And whore the teams dont represent rep-resent different action, thoro are Intereonference rivalries and titular titu-lar battlos In the major conforoncas to fill out the bill. Taking the week's program by sections, this Is how It looks: Xasti Although thoy won by aortal gymnastics rathtr than tholr old powerhouse tactics, Pitt's Pan-thors Pan-thors already have shown they're among the best In the east Witt Virginia, despite a 44-0 win over Wast Virginia Wosloyan. hardly figures to stop Pitt this week. Two ethsr major eastern power tost their strength In Intsrssctlonal games. Holy Cross, which showsd a wealth of power In trimming Manhattan 98-0, faces Louisiana State, 14-T victim of Mississippi. Fordhsm, after trimming Waynes-burg Waynes-burg 34-7, faces Alabama, 21-0 victor vic-tor over Uttlo Howard. Army, which had some trouble stopping Furmsn 16-7, faces easier southern opposition In Centre, while Nsvy swings the other way, tackling Virginia's Vir-ginia's good team after trimming William and Mary 31-6. The leading all-eastern pairing la Camegte Tech, which looks like one of the best eastern teams, against Temple, which dropped a 3-2 decision to Georgetown Friday. The "Ivy league" barely gets under way with Columbia-Yale and Syracuse-Cornell as Its leading games. Syracuse tuned up Friday with a 12-0 win over Clarkson. Psnn-Lafayette, Psnn-Lafayette, Princeton-Williams and Harvard-Bates are other openers. Midwest: Minnesota showed that It has all kinds of power to toss Into the Big Ten campaign, but the Gophers are due to get a real test against Nebraska, which fought Indiana to a 7-7 tie Saturday. Satur-day. Notre Dame, whose herd-woa herd-woa 3-0 triumph ever Purdue showed the Irish are in the for- lOMMal M fUtowtoi Fast) Nation's Grid Powers Begin Campaigns ! (CmtMuMI rraa FracWIne Pun) front of the national title picture, faces an untested Georgia Tech outfit Ohio State opens Its campaign against Missouri, which msy be the class of the Big Six. Northwestern North-western starts off with Oklahoma's Sooners, who were disappointed by their 7-7 tie with Southern Methodist Metho-dist Michigan opens In the traditional tra-ditional manner against Michigan State. Indiana and Iowa start off the Big Ten title race at Iowa City while Iowa State and Kansas, a pair of losers, meet In the first Big Six tussle. Wisconsin, which edged out Marquette 14-13, plays an Intersectlonal game against Texas, 12-0 winner over Florida. Marquette visits Kansas Stat. Chicago, Chi-cago, after a 6-0 loss to Beloit faces Wabash while Illinois takes the week off to ponder a scoreless tie with Bradley. Seata: Duke's Blue Devils, Rose bowl losers last January, open another an-other campaign for national recognition recog-nition against Colgate, which dropped a 7-6 decision to New York university. The Blue Devils whipped Davidson, a strong Southern South-ern conference rival, 26-6 last week. North Carolina, current Southern conference leader after a 36-6 triumph over Wake Forest, should make It three straight against Virginia Tech. Other conference con-ference games are Clemson-North Carolina .State, Richmond-Washington and Lee and V. M. L-Davld-son. The Southeastern conference also geta down to business, with Van-derbilt, Van-derbilt, whose passes beat Rice In the last four and one-half minutes, min-utes, facing Kentucky, 21-0 winner over V. M. L Tuiane, which wiped out a 1938 defeat by downing Clem-son Clem-son 7-6, faces Auburn, 6-0 victors over Birmingham-Southern. The surprising Mississippi State team meets Florida, and Tennessee, which trimmed North Carolina Stat. 13-0 Friday, meets Sewanee. |