Evening star., 1939-01-03
Trojan Triumph
Provides Most
Bowl Thrills
Final Football! Fling
Marked by Violence,
High Hysterio
By the Associated Press.

Texas Christian and Tennessee
got throwing holds on the national
football championship and Dukes
dreams Of football empire faded
in the bleak atmosphere of the
Arroyo Seco as the football season
ended yesterday on note of vio-
lence and high hysteria. =
Only boVl game to end all
bowl games can settle the mythical
title chase now. Texas Christian
effectively drubbed Carnegie Tech,
Is to 7, in the New Orleans Sugar
Bowl yesterday, while Tennessee
rolled steadily to a ITO win over
Oklahoma, hitherto inviolate, in the
Orange Bowl at Miami to preserve
the seasons two most enviable
records.
But if the Horned Frogs and the
Volunteers gained the greatest glory,
twice-beaten Southern California
provided the drama. With little
over a minute to play and Duke
protecting a 80 lead, Doyle Nave,
fourth string quarterback, threw
four complete passes to accomplish
a 7-3 triumph for the Trojans in
the Rose Bowl as 1000, the days
biggest crowd, looked on.
This defeat ended season in
which the Dukes from Durham, N.
c., had marched through teir sched-
ule undefeated, united and unscored
upon, lone major aggregation to &C
complish the feat
Battling Keen in Texas.
Elsewhere on the bowl horizon
Utah slapped New Mexico, 26-0,
in the Sun Bowl game at Ell Paso
with 1880 in. the stands and Texas
Techs passes bounced back and bit
the Red Raiders as ST. Marys won,
20-l3, in the Cotton Bowl at Dallas
before 10000.
In two intersectional all-star
games the West drubbed the East
by 14-0 and the North punched
out a hard-earned touchdown to
whip the South, TO.
Two of the Nations biggest foot
ball regulations emerged unscathed
in the bowl games. They belonged to
Davy OBrien and Tennessee.
OBrien completed II out of %
passes, l for touchdown, and place.
kicked field goal to lead the T. C.
U. victory march. Trailing at the
half for the first time this season,
7-6, the Frogs scored on O'Brien' S
touchdown pass and Dayey's field
goal in the final periods to take a
solid, willy Carnegie eleven. The
Skibos also scored by air before
$4,000, biggest gathering in Sugar
Bowl history.
Orange Bowl Fight Bitter.
Tennessee and Oklahoma fought
it out in a conflict that was just a
shade behind the second battle of
the Marine in bitterness. The fisti-
cutting on both sides couldn't OBJ
scure the Vols all-around effective
ness. however. They bottled up the
Sooners' aerial thrusts when the
going got tough and broke George
Cafego and Babe Wood, the run
ming backs, loose at opportune mo-
ments as an overflow crowd of
32.l91 watched.
Tennessee, like T. C. u, thus
emerged from the season undefeated
and united. These two have no more
worlds to conquer.
It was left to Southern Califor-
MIA, whipped by Alabama and
shaded by Washington, to burst the
Duke bubble. The men of Troy had
the better of it in the statistics
all the way. But when Tony Ruffa,
the stumpy Duke man of all work,
place-kicked a field goal it seemed
they were licked. Then Howard
Jones lifted Grenville Lansdell and
sent Nave in at quarter. He was
the business.
Nave drove pass to AL Kruger
for IA yards and then aerialed to
the same operative for 10. A short
pass with two cooperating lost 2
yards. Then, with time running
out, Nave threw one 18 yards and
the Dukes were licked.
= Texas Tech Starts Late.
Utah's triumph over New Mexico
was high-l Lighted by steady ground
gaining and first period in which
the Utes got two touchdown jump
on the Lobos. st. Mary's worked
in similar fashion against Texas
Tech, holding a 300 lead at the
start of the final period, the last
touchdown coming as the result of
Herbert Hoover Smiths return of
an intercepted pass.
The Red Raiders then started on
their aerial game in dead earnest
and scored two touchdowns, one on
a screen pass which Elmer Tarbox
carried 80 yards, the second on a
32-yard heave.
Passing, which contributed might
lily to the days events, was the
dominant factor in the East-West