The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-12-05
Carnegie Tech Might Have Had
Rating Had They Not
Dropped Contest
STRONG BEST OF ALL
Tech Also Has Stars of Ma.
tional Rating; Trojans Are
Out of Il
BY HENRY l.. FARRELL


the most tickle seasons the game
has known, but even if they do in.
ciude such teams as Detroit Univer.
sity and Boston College they cannot
boast OF the test by which real great.
ness is established.
Southern California won the cham.
pionship of the far west but their
record has at least the hint of 9
stain in q tie game with California
Illinois won the Western Conference
championship, but it isn't unkind to
intimate that Illinois sneaked into
the title and to venture the predic.
ton that Illinois will not offer a
claim for the national championship
The Three Best Teams
Considering what all the major
teams have done against formidable
opposition and, admitting at the
same time that the figures don't
amount to a darn, it is the opinion
OF the writer that the three greatest
teams Of the year are Georgia Tech,
New York University and Carnegie
Tech. -
Georgia Tech hasn't been beaten
or held to a tie. And that should
give the southerners a clear title
to first place. New York and Car
negie Tech were beaten. And that
should put them in tie for . close
second. 'e
Carnegie Tech against Notre Dame
was one OF the most perfect teams /
ever have seen. They looked ike :
team that couldn't be beaten. New
York in beating Carnegie was ner-
lection. It was hard to imagine how
any team that functioned as thew
aid could be beaten by any football
team that ever played. And in los
ing team looks good because few
losing teams against impossible odds
have the heart that Carnegie has,
Mr.. Grant Rice saw the Georgia
Tech team against the strong Van
derbilt team and he remarked to thu
writer during the New York Car.
negie game that Georgia Tech i'm.
pressed him in that game as a tear,
that couldn't be beaten. But after
the game he said he didn't know
what would happen in 4 game Be.
tween New York and the southern
stars.
New York Edge in East
IN the east New York probably
will be given the edge over Carnerie
in the final rating because the ons
game that New York lost-to
Georgetown-was lost by 4 miser-
able break on q tumble after New
York had distinctly outplayed the
victors in ever department Of the
game. But the score board tells
Carnegie lost to New York without
an excuse although it was apparent
that very great team had suffered
a great down after the Notre Dame
game.
New York has one of the greatest
haltbacks that ever carried a ball,
he is, in our opinion, greater artist
than Red Grange or Red Caple and
we happen to be one of the forum
ates who saw Grange in his greatest
game against Michigan when he Fan
for four touchdowns in eleven min.
utes OF the first quarter.
Strong Best of All
The New York halfback is Ken
Strong, young fellow who weighs
2O1 pounds stripped, who can do the
hundred in 10 seconds and who is .
magnificent broken-field runner and
line plunger, q superb passer, a ter
rifle kicker and one Of the finest
blockers and defensive men YOU have
seen. It he isn't first choice-above
Cagle--for the All-America back
field the thing ought to be abolished.
New York has two superior
tackles in Lassman and Grant, two
fine ends in Nemecek and Barrabee
and fine halfback in Hill. Lass
man is one Of the finest tackles !
have seen this year and Nemecek
looked just as Fesler, the Ohio State
end, who is being boosted for one of
the wing positions on the All-Amer-
lea.
G. T. Has Stars Too
Georgia Tech is not bereft of
talent. Peter Pund, the captain,
probably will be the All-America
center. Drennon is a great guard
and will get Z lot Of mention. Mi
zell is running out in front with the
backfield candidates and he has two
great running mates in Thomson
and Lumpkin. Pennsylvania is the
only team in the country that can
dispute the southerner's claim to the
best backfield unit in the country.
Strong and Mizell are the aces Of
their teams and two Of the three
best backs in the country. Strona
is bigger and faster than Mizell snd
he has more Of Z handicap to carry
because all Of the opposition he faced
this year knew he was the man who
had to carry the ball and they LAID
for him. Mizell's brilliant conpan.
ions. gave his opposition other per.
sons to think about ind watch.