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Show Roche Leads Santa Clara In Grid Bid ft ',, . -: - -J ""' wwwmh".".. hiii-m"iiiii- -- r, i A ' ' A' . e Jack Roche, veteran fullback, who U expected to spark Santa Clara to victory over Michlgaa State Saturday at San Francisco. Roche is a fine passer and packs the ball well. Cards Would Need Miracle To Tumble Trojan Eleven By JAMES A. SULLIVAN SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 10 (UP) It's mid-November, the time when it is customary to write that far western football "roared" into the stretch of the fall campaign. were Idle this week. California, beaten four times, snd Wsshington, which lost Its first four, renew their even-Steven even-Steven rivslry In Berkeley, with the outcome a toss-up. Each team has won 11 times In past meetings. meet-ings. ' St. Mary's found Itself in the unusual un-usual role of even favorites against the University of San Francisco Dons. The Gaels deserved the comedown, for after a good start they crashed against Santa Clara, Portland and Dayton Slip Madl-gan. Madl-gan. once used as appetizers. This game is the only one on Sunday's docket ' But there wasn't much "roar-' ing" and there was a lot more "staggering" about most of the teams which go Into action tomorrow. tomor-row. Several, like California, Stanford and St Mary's, are experiencing ex-periencing their worst seasons in years. Others have fallen off from impressive starts and now are among the also-rans. Twe Standouts There were only two standouts among the big fellows playing tomorrow to-morrow U. S. C, better than an even bet to capture the Pacific Coast conference title and the Rose bowl assignment again, and Santa Clara, king of the independents. U. S. C drew an easy touch in a Stanford team which has yet to win a game in 1939. While the Trojans may be looking over the heads ot the Cardinals to the Notre Dame game two weeks later, nothing noth-ing short of a miracle can produce an upset In the Los Angeles coliseum coli-seum tomorrow. Santa Clara, which started slowly slow-ly and then burst Into full power with wins over St Mary's, Purdue Pur-due and Stanford, stacks against Charley Bachman's Michigan State eleven in San Francisco. Bschman's tesm isn't one of his best and Buck Shaw's Broncos ought to win by two touchdowns, with 180-pound Jack Roche leading the asssult from the fullback position. po-sition. Their real test comes a week later, when they take oa unbeaten U. C L, A. The Bruins |