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Show Vols Annex First Place By Big Edge By BUX WOTI NEW YORK, Oct. '34 (TV-Littl Mercer collet of Macon. Oa, has one consolation, at least it's going' go-ing' to be beaten next Saturday, 1 barring grlddom's greatest upset, by the best team In the. nation, the Volunteers of Tennessee. By a" margin as wid as from here to Mars, th Vols stand acclaimed ac-claimed today as the finest college football crew In th land. In th second weekly Associated Press national na-tional ranking pou,. the talented southern juggernaut received 93 first place votes out of a possible 131 to roll up a total of 1303 points. Seldom, If ever, has on team so dominated the picture. And not only did th nation's press box experts ex-perts pile their plaudits on th team, but no leas a personage than Dr. John Bain (Jock) Sutherland told metropolitan football writers yesterday he considered the team "On of th most perfect I have ever seen." He added he didn't think any team In th country could score on Major Bob Nay-land's Nay-land's crew, let alone beat them! Irish Second If there I any team that could beat th Vols, In ths opinion of ths writers. It would be Notre Dam. Th Ramblln' Irish got 13 votes for first plac and a total of 923 points for second plac in th weekly rankings. Standings of th tesms (points figured on a basis of 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-3-1; first p.lacs votes In parentheses): paren-theses): First Tea Team. Points Tennessee (93) 1303 Notre Dame (13) 923 Michigan (8) 777 Ohio Stat (5) v.... 771 Texas A. at M. (6) 714 Oklahoma (4) 554 Cornell (1) 469 Southern California (0) 393 Tulane (1) 344 Nebraska (0) 164 Second Tea Duquesne, 140; North Carolina, 132 1; Duke, 130; Oregon State, 95; Mississippi, 90; Pennsylvania, 66; Southern Methodist, 55; Pittsburgh, Pitts-burgh, 48; New York U, 35; Alabama, Ala-bama, 30. Also ran: San Joee, 17; U. C. L. A, 16; Kentucky, 14; Louisiana State, 13; Purdue, 13; Oregon, 11; Yale, 8; Minnesota, 5; Dartmouth, 5; California, 4; Carnegie Tech, 3; Holy Cross, 3: Utah, 3; St Mary's. Texas Christian. Catholic U, Santa San-ta Clara and Gonzaga, 1 each. - Of the 106 first plac votes that were not corralled by Tennessee or Notre Dame, eight went to Michigan; five to Its Big Ten rival, Ohio State; six to Texas' Aggies; tour to Oklahoma, and one each to Cornell and Tulane. Southern California and Nebraska Nebras-ka squeezed Into the Big Ten without with-out a single vote for first plac. Watch Pitt Fall Th fall of. Pitt, loser to Duquesne, Du-quesne, was watched with as much interest aa Tenneaee's victory over Alabama. Last week, th Vols were la fifth plac, th experts not quit ready to acclaim th team on Its showing against North Carolina Stats, Sewane aad Chattanooga. Chat-tanooga. Th victory over Alabama, Ala-bama, Its seventeenth game without with-out defeat, boosted the Neylandtte up past Notr Dame, Oklahoma and Tulane. Simultaneously, th mighty Pitts hit th skids. Th Panthers got only 33 points to slide from first plac to eighteenth eeven place back of their conquerors. Da-quesn. Da-quesn. In addition to Pitt, th only team to fall from th Big Ten wa Alabama. Those two vacancies vacan-cies were filled by Cornell, one of the east's ranking clubs, and Nebraska of the Big Six. Th ton leaders, with th poe-sibl poe-sibl exception af Tennessee, all have bruising battle this week. Notr Dam take on Carnegie Tech; Michigan plays host to Yale; Ohio Stat play Cornell; th Texas Aggies play Baylor; Oklahoma has a data with the Oklahoma Aggies; Ag-gies; Southern California plays California: Tulane meets unbeaten, unbeat-en, untied Mississippi, and Nebraska Ne-braska has a tough test with Kansas Kan-sas State. |