The White Falcon - 24.10.1942, Blaðsíða 7

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The Gridiron
Horoscope
By Gene Graff
Major upsets have so thoroughly muddled the
current football campaign, it’s now safe for this
erstwhile crystal-gazer to take a shot at to-
day’s collegiate card. So let’s spin the grid wheel
o’ fortune, Henry, and see what happens.
ALABAMA-KENTUCKY — The Crimson Tide
is Rose Bowl bound, and this doesn’t look like
a detour. Kentucky dropped last year’s game,
30-0. The Colonels haven’t improved, but ’Bama
has. The Crimson Tide in a breeze, 35 to 0.
ILLINOIS-NOTRE DAME — The Illini are en-
joying their most successful season in years,
while the Irish registered the nation’s No. 1
upset Saturday, smashing previously unbeaten
Iowa Pre-Flight Cadets, 28 to 0. It’s a photo-
finish with Illinois continuing to surprise, 7 to 6.
UCLA-SANTA CLARA — The two hottest
teams on the West Coast risk their Rose Bowl
dreams today, and the Broncos are favored by
a hair. There’s plenty of room for an upset
here, but it looks like Santa Clara, 7 to 0.
NORTHWESTERN-OHIO STATE — The
"Wildcats are one of the nation’s disappointments
this season, while Ohio State is expected to be
an important factor in the Big 10 scramble. So
Otto Graham notwithstanding, the Buckeyes
shouldn’t falter here. The wheel says Ohio State
19, Northwestern 7.
MINNESOTA-MICHIGAN — Fritz Crisler has
a talented array of backfielders operating from
behind a massive line. Minnesota’s Golden Goph-
ers have lost some of their luster, but they’re
still a fair country eleven, and this li’l Brown
Jug meeting is always a bitter one. Flip a coin
and Michigan draws the nod, 12 to 7.
SOUTHERN CAL.-STANFORD — Neither is
a serious contender for conference honors, but
there’s always plenty of action when they
square off. Stanford finally broke into the win-
ning column Saturday, and the Indians appa-
rently have enough tricks to polish off the Tro-
jans, 19 to 14.
MICHIGAN STATE-GREAT LAKES — The
Sailors are studded with stars, and can’t be
beat when they’re “on.” Michigan State doesn’t
have much so Great Lakes is a heavy choice,
33 to 6.
TEXAS AGGIES-BAYLOR — The Aggies are
having one of those seasons where nothing clicks
when it should. Baylor also is hot and cold this
year. So let’s take a tip from last season’s game
when the Aggies routed Baylor, 48 to 0. Today’s
score? Aggies on top, 20 to 7.
IOWA CADETS-ST. MARY’S CADETS — Ber-
nie Bierman hasn’t lost two games in succession
since Mrs. O’Leary’s cow kicked over that fa-
mous lantern, and his tutelages are too for-
midable to let the boss down today. It’s too
bad St. Mary’s follows Notre Dame on the Sea-
hawk’s schedule ’cause they’ll get no mercy
today. The Seahawks should romp through this
one, 33 to 0.
WISCONSIN-PURDUE — Harry Stuldreher’s
Badgers are knocking at the Big 10 title door
after years of dwelling in the lowly second
division, and Purdue is just another victim,
26 to 13.
Bierman’s Streak
Ends At 21 Straight
If Dame Fortune doesn’t discard her upset-campaign soon, there won’t be any undefeated collegiate
football squads worthy of laying claim to the mythical National championship this season. As it is, only
a dozen major teams have eluded defeat or a tie thus far.
The most stunning rever-
sal was registered Saturday
by once-beaten and once-
tied Notre Dame which salvaged
the remnants of a proud season
by spanking Bernie Bierman’s
well nigh invincible Iowa Sea-
hawks, 28 to 0. It was the first
setback for a Bierman eleven in
22 successive starts, and was all
the more remarkable because it
followed the Seahawks’ succes-
ses against Northwestern, Min-
nesota and Michigan.
Today the Seahawks strive to
regain their winning ways when
they play host to St. Mary’s Ca-
dets. Notre Dame, meanwhile,
tackles another unbeaten team,
Illinois, and might very likely
remove the Illini from their elite
perch if Angelo Bertelli’s passes
are clicking as they were last
week.
A battered old brown jug, em-
blematic of the intense rivalry,
will be tossed up for grabs to-
day when Minnesota’s Golden
Gophers entertain Michigan. The
Wolves have been unable to
wrest the traditional trophy
from Minnesota for the past six
years, but are conceded a slight
edge this time.
Michigan’s lone defeat was in-
flicted by the Seahawks, while
Minnesota, already upset by the
surprising Illinois eleven, must
win today to remain in the
Big 10 conference whirl. The
Gophers downed Nebraska, 13 to
2, last week, but failed to un-
cork anything resembling Michi-
gan’s power as the Wolverines
Halfback Gor-
don Studer of
Navy hurdles
through as dum-
my linesman are
shunted from
his path by Jo-
seph Berry (left),
a center from
Greensboro, N.
C., and Fred A.
Schnurr, a tackle
from Long Is-
land, N.Y. The
Middies play
host to unbeaten
Georgia Tech
this afternoon.
Last week Navy
trounced Yale,
13 to 6.
Familiar Navy
marching and
rooting sections
are absent from
traveling games
of Middies this
season.
pummeled Northwestern, 34 to
16.
In other midwest features,
Northwestern faces unbeaten
Ohio State, Iowa encounters In-
diana, Purdue tests Wisconsin,
and Missouri plays Iowa State.
Alabama, riding the crest of
an undefeated wave after sub-
duing Tennessee, 8 to 0, meets
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Football Scores
Notre Dame 28, Iowa Pre-
Flight 0.
Michigan 34, Northwestern 16.
Alabama 8, Tennessee 0.
Illinois 12, Iowa 7.
Wisconsin 13, Great Lakes 7.
Minnesota 13, Nebraska 2.
LSU 21, Mississippi 7.
Ohio State 26, Purdue 0.
Santa Clara 7, Oregon State 0.
Washington State 26, Southern
California 12.
North Carolina 13, Duquesne 6.
Stanford 54, Idaho 7.
UCLA 21, California 0.
Oklahoma 25, Kansas 0.
Navy 13, Yale 6.
Duke 34, Colgate 0.
Dartmouth 14, Harvard 2.
Cornell 0, Penn State 0,
Indiana 19, Pittsburgh 6.
Boston College 7, N. Carolina
Cadets 6.
Georgia 40, Tulane 0.
Texas Christian 7, Texas A & M 2.
Georgia Naval 26, Penascola Na-
val 0.
Penn 6S Princeton 6,
Army 34, Columbia 6.
Fordham 23, Wl Virginia 14.
Mississippi State 33, Vanderbilt 0.
Boston U. 6, Tufts 0.
Marquette 28, Michigan State 7.
Syracuse 19, Holy Cross 0.
Georgia Tech 43, Davidson 0.
Brown 7, Lafayette 0.
Missouri 46, Kansas State 2.
Texas 37, Arkansas 6.
Oklahoma 25, Kansas 2.
Kentucky 21, VPI 21.
VMI 29, Maryland 0.
Iowa State 27, Drake 6.
South Dakota 26, Morningside 6.
N. Dakota 19, S. Dakota State 8.
Lakehurst Naval 14, Albright 0.
Wabash 6, Butler 0.
Washington. 35, Montana 0.
PRO LEAGUE;
Chgo. Bears 26, N.Y. Giants 7.
Chgo. Cards 7, Detroit Lions 0.
Washington Redskins 21, Brook-
lyn Dodgers 10.
Pittsburgh S<°elers 14, Phila-
delphia Eagles 0.
Green Bay Packers 45, Cleveland
Rams 28t
SHORT SHOTS
The gilt-edged Chicago Bears, hotter than a
firecracker on the Fourth of July, shoot for
their fifth success of the season—and their
18th in a row—tomorrow afternoon when Sid
Luckman & Co. entertain the Philadelphia Eag-
les. The Bears stand alone in the unbeaten
ranks and appear headed for their third conse-
cutive National Football league crown. Re-
mainder of tomorrow’s full complement of
games is as follows: Chicago Cardinals at Cleve-
land, Green Bay at Detroit, New York at Brook-
lyn and Washington at Pittsburgh.
The Bears battered a strong New York Gi-
ants eleven, 26 to 7, last Sunday to the delight
of 36,000 Windy City fans. After Gary Fami-
glietti scampered 35 yards to register the Bears’
first touchdown the Giants didn’t have a chance
against the mighty Halas machine.
Cecil Isbell and Don Hutson enjoyed one of
their best days to lead Green Bay to a 45 to 28
triumph over the Cleveland Rams.
Washington maintained its advantage in the
Eastern division by trouncing Brooklyn, 21 to
10, as Sammy Baugh pitched three touchdown
passes. In other games, the Chicago Cardinals
slipped past Detroit, 7 to 0, and Pittsburgh sub-
dued Philadelphia, 14 to 0.
HERE ‘N’ THERE: Don Hutson, Green Bay’s
great end, is far ahead of last year’s pace when
he led the National Football Legue scoring with
95,points in 11 games. .. The rangy pass catcher
has scored seven touchdowns and 14 extra
points for 56 points in four games... .Fights
this week.., .Negro heavy Jimmy Bivins deci-
sioned Bob Pastor at Cleveland, while Bobby
“Poison” Ivy held Lulu Constantino to a draw
....Ray Robinson registered his S7th straight
triumph, taking every round from Izzy Ginozq
gt Philadelphia^