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Show Texas Aggies ! Pass Vols in-Nation's in-Nation's Poll By BILL WHITE ' NEW YORK. Nov. 21 (AP) Like a judge at a bathing beauty contest would pan up a knock-kneed gal, football's critics crit-ics from coast to coast this week passed up the upbeaten Volun-: Volun-: teen from Tennessee and named Texas Aggies as the nation's North Carolina, from seventh to a tie for seventeenth, and all-winning all-winning Duquesne, from tenth to twelfth. The gaps were filled by Duke, Iowa and Missouri, as Tulane moved up a notch from sixth to fifth and Ohio State and Notre Dame each crept up two places. outstanding grid power. It took a lot of undoing to take Tennessee out of the leadership It had held for four straight weeks j In the Associated Press country-j country-j wide poll. But the Aggies, just one game away from a perfect sea-' sea-' son, garnered 38 first place votes, 1 27 for second place and IT for third on 110 ballots, or a total of 963 j points. In the sixth, vote of the j season. Cornell Gains That was enough to surpasJen-; surpasJen-; nessee by 65 points, but the sur-, sur-, prises didnt end there. Cornell, i pride of the east, rolled up a pop- ular vbte of 865 points Just 33 ' shy of the Tennessee total of 898. The 19-0 shellacking handed Rice by the Aggies, Cornell's 35-6 walloping wal-loping of Dartmouth, and Tennessee's Tennes-see's comparatively narrow squeak In beating Vanderbilt, only 13-0, all apparently were considered important im-portant by the writers who par-ticipata par-ticipata In the poll. Southern California. Tulane, Ohio. State, Notre Dame, Duke, Iowa and Missouri are the rest of the top 10. Last year at this same stage Notre Dame, Texas Chris- i tian, Duke, Tennessee, Pitt, Okla-j Okla-j noma, Carnegie Tech, Minnesota, : California and Cornell were ranked ' In that order. i The standing of the teams points figured on 10-9-8-7-6-5, etc., ' basis, first place votes in parentheses): paren-theses): Teams Points ' 1. Texas A. A M. ... (38 ) 963 2. Tennessee (33) 898 , 3. Cornell (20) 865 4. Southern Cal (11) 764 5. Tulane (3) 659 6. Ohio State (1) 420 7. Notre Dame 314 H 8. Duke (2) 2S9 9. Iowa (1) 224 10. Missouri 202 V4 Second 10 11. Holy Cross, 133; 12, Duquesne, 110; 13, U. C. L. A, 62; 14, Oklahoma, 61; 15, Clemson, 33; 16, Georgetown, 17; tied for seventeenth place, Santa Clara and North Carolina. 11 each; 19, Ford-i Ford-i ham. 10; tied for twentieth place, Princeton and Georgia Tech, 7 each. Also ran Nebraska and Oregon State, 6 each; Colorado, 2, and Mississippi, L Dropped from the places they held In the select Big Ten last week were Oklahoma, which slipped from fifth to fourteenth |