The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-11-27
WASHINGTON ALABAMA LOOM AS ROSE BOWL
|. S.U.MayGei
Into Picture
For Game
BY DAVIS J. WALSH

NEW YORK, NOV. IIs-OnleSS
L. s. U. can and does put on a
show against Tulane at Baton
Rouge tomorrow, the great prob
ability Is that it will be Washing
ton, Of the Northwest, versus Ala
bama, of the deep South, for the
Rose Bowl game at Pasadena on
January /. This much was indi-
Gated, if not actually ordained dur
ing yesterdays holiday develop
ments when Washington earned
the West Coast bid with it's 40 to 0
victory over Washington State,
while Alabama finished its regu-
lar season unbeaten with IA to 6
decision over Vanderbilt.
There are, unfortunately, several
kinds of finishes-and Fordham's
was q well-merited z to 6 defeat
by New York University. This is,
of course, the same Fordham team
that always starts for the Rose
Bowl in the middle Of November
and winds up having its New Year
dinner at a nearby dairy lunch.
It hit its peak against Purdue,
then faded into a tie with Georgia
and finally lost yesterday for the
first time, the winner being team
that once held Ohio State Splen-
didly, the score being only so to
0. Even a New York sports writer
can't make anything, but hashed-
brown potatoes out of that. N. Y.
u. I suspect, could have won yes
terday by more than it did.
FOrdham Worn Down
Fordham, worn down to nothing
through winning its games by max
ing the other. team lose, gave its
paSsers no protection and, on de-
Tense, had it's tackles mouse-trap-
ped all day on the old Yale cut
back play. It even broke a lad
named Druze down field for what
would have been winning touch
down pass, but the young man
began stepping up and down and
never got his hands on ball that
any able Scrub-Woman would have
caught on the end of her mop.
It was all for the best, of course.
Fordham went as far as it could
with what it had-and it's just as
well for Eastern prestige that this
didn't carry it any further than
the dressing room at the Yankee
Stadium.
Alabama, at that, was behind at
the half by 6 to. 0 and seems to be
doing little fading on it's own.
For further indications along this
line, see the Georgia Tech score of
the week before.
However, nobody argues with an
mbeaten record in a season as
boiSterouS as this. Alabama has
one tie-With Tennessee in
the light of later developments
this looks better than LSU's tie
with Texas, although the latter
came back to score one of yester-
days upsets with it's to 0 game
against Texas A. and M.
Anyhow, LSU most assuredly
remains in the running for ma
t1onal as well as Rose Bowl recog-
milton and, if it takes Tulane to-
morrow with proper emphasis, it
might even get both.
Pitt Shows Power
Pitt, a one-defeat team, again
rolled out all of it's tremendous
power with 31-to-14 victory over
Carnegie Tech; and Pennsylvania,
having lost only to Yale, wound
up its greatest season of a decade
in beating Cornell IA to 6. It is
interesting, though perhaps rela-
lively unimportant, that two Of the
ranking one-defeat teams are Pitt
and Marquette, 10th beaten by
DuqueSne.
Duke, figuring in the same class,
went Scoreless into the final period
and then beat North Carolina
State Is to 0. Duke, they tell me,
should never have lost to Tennes-
see, but the point is that it did.
And if you are looking around for
one-defeat teams, why go further
than Minnesota i.gainst North
western-unleSs you care to go as
far as Northwestern against Notre
Dame.
It is, in fact, strictly comical
football season, which is why the
Rose Bowl should be glad to have
Alabama, never beaten there, or
L. S. u, which has never been
invited. Moreover, it can really
congratulate itself on Washington.
Beaten by Minnesota and tied by
Stanford, the huskies showed
yesterday that they are just COM
ing. on to their best at a time
when they'll be able to use it.
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