Evening star., 1939-11-28
From the
Press Box
Startling Facts Bored
By Football Poll
BY JOHN LARDNER,
Special Correspondent of The Star.

NEW YORK, Nov. % (N.A.N.A3.
This weeks unassociated football
poll shows that Tennessee has sky
rocketed from 18th place to l4th
by reason of its crushing victory
over the unbeaten forces of no game
scheduled, sometimes known as the
Invisible Tide or the Ectoplasmic
Eagles.
No game scheduled played an
early-season tie with open date,
but, outside of that, her record
was clean as daisy, up till the time
she met Tennessee.
The Volunteers had too much re-
serve strength for the Invisible Tide
According to my scouts, Neyland's
team pushed the Ectoplasmic Eagles
up and down the field at will, and
might have scored more often than
1t did
Thus the Vols fully deserve their
sensational elevation from 18th to
14th place. Four hundred and
seventy-siX sports editors can't be
wrong, though 1 admit they tried
very hard this week.
Bono Still MuIIs Over
Typewriter Poll
One sports editor tells me that
Lardner's unassociated poll has
made a new man of him, and even
mentions the new mans name.
Another has mastered the clarinet.
A third has moved to a different
neighborhood. A fifth was bitten
by a copperhead. With men who
know football best, it's Lardner's
poll, 81a to S.
Cornell by failing to score field
goal against Pennsylvania. falls from
5th place to 18th, just below Il
Built a Dream" on the hit parade.
Alabama casts "a votes for Under
wood, apparently under the miSap-
prehension that this is typewriter
poll.
Stanford, rolling up two touch
downs against California and keep
ing the Golden Bears bottled up in
the Stanford end zone the rest OF
the day, can no longer be ignored.
But the poll ignores her. With ats
sports editors, there is no such word
as impossible.
Missouri gets al votes. but I don't
know exactly for what, because the
voters failed to say. Using the dis
cretionary powers given me under
the Constitution, I would place her
somewhere west of the Mississippi
River, north of Arkansas.
Boston College Is Moine's
Fovored Southern Teom
Three sports editors in Maine tell
me that Boston College is their
favorite Southern team. Boston
College is not true Southern team.
though I suppose it looks that way
from Maine However, they do plant
a good deal of cotton around that
part of the country, usually in their
ears, and I am going to let the
result stand
Southern California, missing one
kick for point against Notre Dame.
takes a humiliating tailspin into
ninth place. Unless Howard Jones
can develop a good point kicker i'm
mediately. Southern Cal seems
doomed.
Syracuse, which fooled the experts
by playing Thursday instead of Sat-
urday, seems to be on her way. This
trick was borrowed by Ossie Solem
from Pop Warmers Carlisle Indians,
and is sure-fire. The Maryland
team was caught completely off
guard. When notified that Syracuse
had started the game and was
marching down the field, the Mary
landers hastily boarded a special
train and arrived just too late to
block the touchdown which won the
game.
Speorfish One Degree
Below Normal
Without further ado, we give you
the unassociated football poll for
this week:
Rice-321.
United States Steel-1S6A.
Kayak II-s1190, $3.50.
Centenary-99.
Normal-986
Spearfish-976 Zone degree be-
low normaD.
Tech-72
State-53.
Vanderbilt 3-9l00 Gnforma-
tion).
Chicago-0.
As an added feature of our poll
this week. we asked the sports
editors if they would 60 to the bow
II invited. The vote was as follows
Previous engagement-203.
Engaged, but not planning to
be married right away-75.
Married-195.
Yes-2.