Ranking College Elevens: Nineteen Teams Still Unbeaten and Untied After Saturdays Upheaval.; Notre Dame and Carnegie Tech Only Two of Above Group to Meet Saturday--Pittsburgh Rated No. 1., Daily Racing Form, 1938-10-20

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RANKING COLLEGE ELEVENS Nineteen Teams Still Unbeaten and Untied After Saturdays Upheaval Notre Dame and Carnegie Tech Only Two of Above Group to Meet Saturday Pittsburgh Rated No 1 Notre Dame and Carnegie Tech meet Sat ¬ urday and aside from the fact that the Irish are still smarting from the licking handed them last year by the Scots it will be the only game involving unbeaten and untied major teams teamsAfter After last Saturdays upheaval only nine ¬ teen major teams remain unbeaten These include eight in the east four in the middle west four in the south two In the south ¬ west and two in the far west These teams are as follows followsMIDDLE MIDDLE WEST WESTIowa Iowa State Minnesota Notre Dame Okla ¬ homa EAST EASTBoston Boston College Carnegie Tech Dartmouth Georgetown Pitt Syracuse Villanova SOUTH SOUTHDuke Duke Georgia Tennessee Vanderbilt SOUTHWEST SOUTHWESTBaylor Baylor Texas Christian ChristianFAR FAR WEST WESTCalifornia California Santa Clara Pittsburgh is generally rated the strongest team in the country Unbeaten since 1936 the Pittsburgh Panthers have won from West Virginia Temple Duquesne and Wis ¬ consin this season with Southern Methodist Fordham Carnegie Tech Nebraska Penn State and Duke to complete its schedule A tough schedule indeed and a real test for a championship team teamMinnesota Minnesota among the unbeaten teams does not stand out like former giants of the north woods but with victories over Washington Nebraska Purdue and Michigan the latter an extremely lucky triumph the Gophers may carry on with its power and strength though lacking in speed Minnesota clashes with Northwestern next Saturday and will Continued on thirtyfourth page RANKING COLLEGE ELEVENS Continued fromjlrst page know it has been in a game the speedy Evanston team always being a tough nut for the Gophers to crack After Northwestern Iowa Notre Dame and Wisconsin will be the opponents of Minnesota and the going may be too rough for the big men of the north northNotre Notre Dames millions of fans are seri ¬ ously entertaining the idea that the Irish have one of its great teams this year Thus far they have a clean slate with a lop ¬ sided score over Kansas and triumphs over Georgia Tech and Illinois to justify the claims of their admirers Notre Dame has one of its yearly tough schedules for after meeting Carnegie Saturday they will en ¬ counter Army Navy Minnesota Northwest ¬ ern and Southern California If Notre Dame remains unbeaten at the end of such a schedule honorsIn few will deny the Irish top honors In the cast aside from Pittsburgh the big team sporting the colors of Dartmouth is looked upon as about as fine a team any coach would desire and may go through its schedule unbeaten Dartmouth has a great scoring team as Bates St Lawrence Prince ¬ ton and Brown can testify Saturday it meets Harvard then Yale Dickinson Cor ¬ nell and Stanford Dartmouth has won nineteen consecutivelyCalifornia games consecutively California and Santa Clara are the stand ¬ out eleven teams of the far west while it is still an open question which team will carry off the honors in the south southOf Of the nineteen unbeaten major teams of the country Pittsburgh Minnesota Notre Dame Dartmouth and California are rated the best and one of this group is certain to be awarded the mythical crown of champion ¬ ship at the end of the season


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