Conference Title At Stake: Minnesota-Northwestern Game May Settle Big Ten Championship.; Pittsburgh Engages Fordham, Dartmouth Clashes With Yale and Notre Dame Battles Army in the East., Daily Racing Form, 1938-10-26

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CONFERENCE TITLE AT STAKE MinnesotaNorthwestern Game May Settle Big Ten Championship Pittsburgh Engages Fordham Dartmouth DartmouthClashes Clashes AVith Yale and Notre Dame DameBattles Battles Army in the East Championship claims are at stake in next Saturdays football games Here in the Mid ¬ dle West Minnesota meets Northwestern on the tetters campus and the result of that game may virtually settle the Big Ten Cham ¬ pionship Unbeaten and untied Minnesota will be meeting a sturdy foe in Northwest ¬ ern which hopes to repeat its triumph of two years ago over the Gophers Minnesota has not run over its opponents this year as in past seasons and Northwestern has just the team to make it mighty interesting for the Gophers The Evanston eleven is un ¬ beaten but played a scoreless tie with Ohio State It has not been scored upon and rates a line comparable to that of Minne ¬ sota The capacity crowd certain to see the game is assured of a battle of giants with either team likely to win winBesides Besides the annual classic in New York between Notre Dame and Army Pittsburgh the sostyled No 1 team of the nation will meet the sparkling Fordham aggregation coached by Jimmy Crowley of the immortal Four Horsemen while Dartmouth unbeaten in twenty straight games will encounter a tough opponent in the much improved Yale eleven Pittsburgh has not been defeated for three years but the Panthers could not beat Fordham being forced to be content with three tied games Dartmouth has already beaten Princeton Brown and Harvard and while it is not invulnerable in defensive play certainly has the ability to roll up big scores against its opponents Notre Dame is unde ¬ feated this season having triumphed over Kansas Georgia Tech Illinois and Car ¬ negie Tech and appears to have a team that has not reached its best form as yet Continued on thirtytilth page CONFERENCE TITLE AT STAKE Continued from first page Army always plays a great game against the Irish and the Subway rooters should have plenty occasions to fill the Polo Grounds with their cheers cheersThe The leaders in the Pacific conference Cali ¬ fornia and Southern California have each won three games Saturday the Trojans meet Oregon at Portland and Oregon State invades California CaliforniaTexas Texas Christian leader in the Southwest conference meets Baylor Saturday Baylor has won one game and has been tied tiedLouisiana Louisiana State at Tennessee and Georgia Tech at Vandcrbilt are important games in the Southeastern conference


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