The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-10-24
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 (Unitea Press Staff Correspondent)
 Atlanta, Go., October 24.-(UP) |-Notes on southern football, where the game is hotter than the inside of Q baked yam and tougher than 6 field hand full of corn whiskey. With record of l02 victories and only l2 defeats, Major Bob Neyland of Tennessee is getting so hard to beat that some of his rival coaches are almost hoping for American par ticipaticn in the war. They fig ure that he would be called up for active duty, and that while war is hell, it isn't any worse than playing the majors teams on Saturday. {. Navy had better have all decks cleared for action and every man at his battle station when Clemson reaches Annapolis on Saturday, be- cause the Tigers are Q red hot team. '. 2. In one Banks McFadden they have one of the gerat backs of the country - . long-legged traveller who gained 36D yards last year, com pleted 10 of % passes for 169 yards without an interception, and had a kicking average of 70 yards. Ken Kavanaugh, 190-pound L. s. U. end, has scored A points to take the lead In southeastern conference scoring. ... He has snagged five touch- down passes from Leo Bird, sopho- more halfback, and intercepted two enemy passes for scores. Coach W. A. Alexander of Georgia Tech, member of the National Football Rules Committee, will urge that august body to restore the rule mak- ing punt a free ball, saying that 1t would be great help to the of. fense and add to the spectacular gaiety of the game. =.
 !, Alexander does not believe the rules committee will heed his sug- gestion, however. There are 32 Pennsylvania players operating in the south eastern conference, and at Duke, North Carolina State, and North Carolina. ..
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 Pennsylvania, you know, is to the production of football players what the Kimberley Mines are to dia- monds. .. The coaches in the con- ference, and those at the three North Carolina schools really have set their trap lines for players over a far-flung area. The rosters of the teams list men from 32 states and the Canal Zone. The next thing you know they'll be tapping Ellis Island for broad -shouldered immigrants New York City is likely to get 6 look at its first bare footed kicker when Georgia takes on N. Y. D., in the Polo Grounds this week. Jimmy Fordham, Georgia fullback, learned to kick minus shoes at Graymont- Summit, the Eton and Morrow of South Georgia, and he is good for 50 yards a whack. All southern coaches are eyeing young Boby Offers of kingport, Tennessee, 8 high school boy whose record tops that of Bill De Correvont. ,. Kentucky has the inside track on his services, despite the fact that he has brother play ing end for Tennessee this year. ..
 Homer Hazel, Rutgers All-Ameri- ca back of some years ago, has two sons on the University of Mississippi Varsity. .. But the best brother act in football is at Duke where George and Wecley McAree are running wild. especially George. Ossie Solem, Syracuse coach, said after the game with Duke last Saturday that 1t was impossible to construct a de- fense capable of checking George. | Tulane's 225-pound tackle, Bill Kir- chem. has been timed in 0:22.5 for | the 220-yard dash-and he is second ! string.