Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-24
SPORT SLANTS ON UNBEATEN
FOOTBALL TEAMS IN COUNTRY

NEW. YORK, Nov. % Q9-Seven OF
the nine remaining unbeaten teams
among the "big college" elevens have
their work cut out for them in this
weeks gridiron classics.
Six figure in the Thanksgiving day
melee on widespread battle fronts,
where the results may turn cut in
some respects to be anything but al
cause for rejoicing or campus bon
fires. These six are Georgia, Texas
Aggies, Pittsburgh, Washington and
Jefferson Tennessee and New York
university
The seventh, Southern California.
leaves its native sector for the first
time to play Notre Dame Saturday in
a record smashing spectacle in Chi
cages ernbattled arena, Soldier field,
where the Trojans will find the Irish
primed for the biggest intersectional
fray Of the season.
illinois and Minnesota, the other
two major teams with records un-
marred by defeat, have nothing to
worry about Their campaigns have
closed.
Georgia, as the only major outfit
that has escaped a tie as we'll as
defeat. must turn back Alabama's
crimson tide tomorrow to keep its
record spotless. There is every in
dicaticn that this task will be easier
than the final test for the Georgia
Bulldogs, who meet their old and
possibly greatest southern rival,
Georgia Tech, on December g.
Although this is a season where
anything seems likely to happen,
especially when old rivals mfngle, it
seems fairly safe to expect Washing
ten and Jefferson and Tennessee to-
w and j. Presidents, tied only by
Pittsburgh's great team, abttle West
Virginia, which has been below its
usual standard this season. The
Tennesseans encounter Kentucky
which had been handled none too
gently by most of its southern rivals.
The N. Y. U. Violets found a snow
storm no aid to blooming in Neb-
raska last fall but they hope to
turn the tables on the Nebraska
Cornlluskers at Lincoln tomorrow.
Pittsburgh's hopes of remaining in
position to dispute Yale's claim to
eastern honors depend on eating Penn
State tomorrow, but they may not be
easy to fulfill.
Out in the wide open spaces OF
the southwest the Texas Aggies have
erected their title aspirations or ex-
pectations of roping the Texas uni
versity Longhorns in another Thanks.
giving day classic, but this likewise
looms as tussle that may turn
either way.
These big game climaxes are help
ing to coS.entrate the spotlight on
all American candidates.
Below the Mason and Dixon line
the experts are lifting the praises
of Bill Spears, Vanderbilt quarter
back, along with McGary, Georgia
fullback, Nash and Captain Chick
Shiver, Georgia ends.
A prominent southern official, "Bill''
Streit, of Birmingham, puts forward
the name Of "Phoney" Smith, Mercer
star, who ran through Georgia 80
yards for touchdown last week
The southwest halls Joel Hunt, of
the Texas Aggies, as one of the great
est backs that section has ever pro-
duced, but there is an equally stride2t
note sounded for Gerald Mann, quar-
terbaek of the Southern Methodist
Mustangs. Rags Mathews, Texas
Christian end, is another favorite of
the Lone. Star belt.
From the far west come echoes of
the stalwart achievements Of such
stars as Captain Morley Drury, quar-
terback, and Jess E1ibbS, giant tackle,
of Southern California; of Larry Bet
tencourt, st. Mary's center, and Fritz
Coltrin, California tackle.
The middleweSt has Gilbert and
Oosterbaan, of Michigan; Joe Sting
and Hanson, of Minnesota; Nowack
of Illinois, and Aaskowski. Of Ohio
State. To mention a few of the
outstanding stars, the east has its
Marsters Wltilner, Gibby Welch, Bud
CharleSwortf, Bud Sprague, Claude
Grigsby and a pair of great Penn
Tacklers, Smith and Hake
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