The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-30
MUSTANGS SURE. TO PROVE TOO TOUGH FOR FOE
Stanford Will Be Rose Bowl UnderdOg Again;
 Other Winners
BY GEORGE KIRKsEY

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 New York, Dec. 30.--(UP) South ern Methodist, Louisiana State, Mis- siSsippi, Hardin Simmons and the Western All-S Stars will score the first gridiron victories of 1886.
 These teams were selected today by United Press sports writers as probable victors in the five New Years games-a series of battles spread from California to Florida.
 s. M. U. will give Stanford its third straight. defeat in the Rose Bowl game, the daddy of all post season games, the headline the most dramatic and thrilling football finale in history, experts agreed.
 Go Down Fighting
 The four losing Bowl" teams and the Eastern All-Star eleven which plays the west in the second oldest poSt-Season game at San Francisco, all will score in fierce battles, the writers believe, and here's how they predict the outcomes:
 Rose Bowl at Pasadena: Southern Methodist IT,, Stanford 10.
 Sugar Bowl at New Orleans: Louisiana State 27, Texas Christian 20. ,.
 Orange Bowl at Miami: Mississippi IA, Catholic U 2.
 Sun Bowl at Fl Paso: Hardin Sim mons 12, New Mexico Aggies 2.
 East-West Shrine game at San Francisco: West 13, East 2.
 More than 100000 spectators will witness these five games, which, the writers predict, will produce the ul- timate in offensive football warfare. Passes will fill the air, caution will be tossed to the winds, quarterbacks will gamble with desperate plays which would cause conservative coaches like Gil Dobie, Fielding H. Yost and others to throw up their hands in despair.
 But the spectators will revel in this 'wide-open" type of football and when the 1886 season rolls around next fall they'll start look ing for the stadiums where they can see 1t played.
 Reasons
 A cross-section of why the writers made their selections follows:
 Rose Bowl-Southern Methodist, winning every game of a 12-game schedule. including two games near ly 2,000 miles apart within a space of six days, proved it was a re- sourceful team able to meet any em- ergency. The Mustangs lost two of their stars, Shuford and Wetsel, and carried onto victory in tough games without them. They were twice car- ried into the fourth period dead- locked in scoreless ties, but always had something left to win with when the pressure was on them. Stanford, beaten two years hand-running in Rose Bowl games, finds the pressure on 1t once more. Remembering Ala bama's air attack last year. Stanford is apt to make the costly mistake of building its defense to stop pass es and play into s. M. us hands. he Mustangs running attack has proved better than their passing in crucial games. The lead will change hands, with s. M. U. carrying too many guns in a dramatic fourth period finish.
 Sugar Bowl-Striking its stride in November, Louisiana State finished it's regular season as one of the most powerful teams in the country. Abe Mickal, L. s. U., and Sammy Baugh, T. c. U., will put on one of the most thrilling passing duels ever staged with honors about even. But L. 8. U. will win on superior de- fense and all-round power.
 Orange Bowl-Mississippi, which rolled up 252 points in Il games, will batter down Catholics stout de- fense with the assortment of passes and power plays which conquered Mississippi State. In figuring this game, Mississippi was rated as below par when beaten 33-7 by Marquette.