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Show Undefeated Elevens i Fall in Tough Tilts By HUGH 8. FULLERTON JR. NEW YORK. Nov. 30 UPt Any college football team that can get this far in the season and still hang onto its ideas about winning a championship, or taking a nice trip to some bowl for the year-end holidays, generally is very stubborn stub-born about giving up such thoughts. Oklahoma's Sooners, intent upon showing Missouri's Paul Christman he couldn't pass sitting down, forgot for-got Ronnie King could stand up and kick. As a result, they suf-( suf-( fered their first defeat, 7-6, at ' Missouri's .hands Saturday and a similar loss in national prestige. King's picking put them in the hole; a blocked kick produced the Tiger touchdown. Duke Pulls Upset A blocked kick, plus a hard-charging hard-charging line and a superb pass defense, enabled once-beaten Duke to eliminate North Carolina from the unbeaten ranks, 13-3, and take the lead in the southern conference confer-ence race. Otherwise, the National gridiron grid-iron situation remains much the same as a week ago and shows, signs of working toward a final decision only in few scattered sections this week. Cornell, Tennessee and Texas A. and M. held their places last week as national leaders among a dozen surviving unbeaten and untied teams, with Duquesne and Colorado Colo-rado Mines In second rank. The contenders for the Pacific coast conference title and a New Years' day job in the Rose Bowl Southern South-ern California and U. C. L. A. are unbeaten but tied, along wlh Tulane, Georgetown, Rutgers and Richmond. More than dozen big names In football. Including Missouri, Ohio State. Duke and Notre Dame, are on the lis of once-beaten teams hat can hold up their heads in any company. The first of this year's two. Thanksgiving days, November 23, doesn't cut much Ice in this week's doings, but the Big Ten and Big Six titles come up for final settlement settle-ment Saturday. Surveying the situation by sections sec-tions for the coming week: Title Survey EAST: Cornell's -35-6 rout of a good Darmouth team convinced the few remaining doubters the big Red team is the east's class. Cornell Cor-nell winds up the season Saturday against its traditional rival. Pennsylvania, Penn-sylvania, which gave Michigan quite a tussle before going down, 19-17. It isn't hard to pick Cornell Cor-nell the "Ivy league" champion. Duquesne, idle last Saturday, faces Carnegie Tech, which took a 21-0 drubbing from Holy Cross. Georgetown, once tied, wound up Its second straight unbeaten season sea-son with a 14-0 win over New York university and has some sort of a title claim. Boston college, 19-0 winner over Boston U. and rival of Holy Cross for the "poison Ivy" group's top ranklngriakes oh Kansas State in preparation for Its December 2 tussle with the Crusaders. Princeton's Tigers took the "Big Three" crown by beating Yale, 13-7, and encounter Navy next. Yale and Harvard clash In their traditionally "big" game, in which all past records are forgotten. Penn State, which tied Army, 14-14; 14-14; and Pittsburgh, beaten, 14-13, by Nebraska, meet In another Important Im-portant contest, as do Columbia and Colgate, shut out 25-0 by Tulane Tu-lane and 7-0 by Syracuse, respectively. respec-tively. SOUTH: Duke figures to retain Its southern conference lead as it tapers off after the North Carolina Caro-lina game by playing North Carolina Caro-lina State, which beat out Fur-man, Fur-man, 12-7. Richmond, unbeaten in the conference and in line for a share of the title, plsys Thursday against William and Mary, which downed Washington and Lee, 18-14, 18-14, for its first circuit victory. Clemson, with simlpar prospects, is idle. .Richmond and Clemson won easly from nonconference foes last week. Vote Share Lead Tennessee, despite Its national prominence and 13-0 win pveskne determined Vanderbilt team, shares the southeastern conference confer-ence lead with Georgia Tech, 6-0 winner over Alabama. The Vols don't play again until they meet Kentucky he second Thanksgiving, November 30. Meanwhile, Tech faces Florida, which turned in a raher surprising 13-0 victory over Miami, but hardly looks like a threat to the Yellowjackets. Tulane, Tu-lane, also very much In the title picure, has a workout listed against Sewanee, just good enough to beat the Citadel, 14-7. Auburn-Georgia Auburn-Georgia and Mississippi-Mississippi State are other conference pairings. pair-ings. MIDWEST: Ohio State can't get worse that a tie for t'e Big Ten title as a result of Saturday's 21-0 victory over Illinois. And even if the Buckeyes blow their climax game with Michigan, they won't be tied until Iowa gets past the Northwestern barrier. Iowa, with Nile Kinnick again in the 60-mintue 60-mintue starring role, beat Minnesota, Minne-sota, 13-9, while Northwestern lost, 7-0, to Notre Dame. The situaion is much the same In the Big Six, where Missouri has only to get past the weak Kansas team to claim the title. Kansas lost, 14-7, to George Washington last week. Oklahoma and Nebraska, Ne-braska, tied for second, settle their argument in the other wind-up game. Irish, Trojans Meet Notre Dame, the mighty "independent," "inde-pendent," faces Southern California Califor-nia in a game that comes close to being the week's standout. The Trojans were Idle last Saturday in preparation. Michigan State plays Temple in another Intersections! tilt. SOUTHWEST : The all-conquering Texas Aggies are idle until they meet Texas, November 30. Baylor's Bears will mske another bid to stay in the running for the southwest conference title when they meet Southern Methodist. Baylor beat Centenary, 13-6, in a nonconference game; the Mustangs Mus-tangs were upset victims of Arkansas, Ar-kansas, 14-0, Friday. Rice, latest victim of the Aggies, 19-0, plays Texas Christian, which went down, 25-9, before Texas. Texas Tech, beaten by Marquette, 22-19, meets another Interactional foe, Montana. Mon-tana. PACIFIC COAST! Although held to a scoreless tie by Santa Clara, a tough opponent for anybody, U. C. L. A. still Is In position to beat out Southern California for the Pacific coast conference championship. champion-ship. The Uclans have a hard game coming up against' Oregon State, which has lost only to U. S. C and handed California a 21-0 lacing Saturday. The classic Stanford-California tussle has the status sta-tus of a cellar-championship affair, af-fair, as he Indians lost, 7-0, to Washington State. Oregon and Washington play Thursday, as do San Jose State and Fresno State, two of the unbeaten and untied little fellows. |