Evening star., 1939-12-24
Great Field for Speculation
In Pasadena Tilt of Giants
For Grid Fans of Nation
Record Crowds Sure for Sugar, Orange
Froys; Five Other Bowl Games Due

all post-season college games, this
one has the worthiest cause. The
others are played strictly for the
benefit Of the contending teams and
the respective Chambers of Com.
merce. but, under the auspices Of
the Shriners, the East-West receipts
go to charity.
Tough Test for Vols.
On the same afternoon there win
be activity in two other bowls
the Sun Bowl at Ell Paso, Tex, with
Dixie Howell of Alabama Rose Bowl
fame sending his Tempe (Ariz)
State Teachers Bulldogs, champions
OF the Border Conference, against
Catholic University of Washington,
D. c., and San Jose (Calif.) State
'Teachers, highest-scoring club in the
country for 1889. meeting St. Mary's
OF Texas in the Tourist Bowl" at
Denver, Colo.
Because, for the past two years,
so much criticism has been levelled
at the weak schedules Tennessee has
had, the Vols invasion of Pasadena
Will be watched with tremendous in.
terest. Unbeaten and united through
their last two regular campaigns
and winners of their Orange Bowl
venture against Oklahoma last jan
uary. Maj. Bob Neylands charges
will rely chiefly on a stout defense
and their famous one-two punch.
The defence has enabled the
Southeastern Conference eleven to
come through its last Is games with
out an opposition score. The one
two punch is the second factor in
this amazing string of successes.
Big Battle of Beef.
Maj. Neyland has built two teams
that are ranked virtually on even
terms. The No. team plays the
nrst quarter and softens up the
opposition. The No. 2 club then
takes over to continue the pounding
and, If its scoring record looks better.
its due in large measure to the
groundwork done by the starters.
Aagalnst this one-two, exempli-
ned extensively by George Dad
News Cafego and his tailback re-
placement, Johnny Butler, Southern
California will send a SQUAD even
better equipped on a man-power
basis and presenting, on attack, a
one-tWo-three punch with a Howard
Jones patent.
An individual rather than a team
proposition. it consists Of uusrter-
backs Grenville Lansdell, "Antbling
Amby" SCHNEIDER ard Dole Nave.
!hey are SO much or oar that.
from game to game. Howard tones
rarely has known which Wa the
nrst-strlnger Aho which the SUBJ
stltutes. Lansdell has been themost
consistent, yes i:'s uurth femssaber-
ing that 1t WIS Nave, tn.sa a third
strlnger. who Uhies the passes; that
beat Duke in the last rose Bowl
game.
Clash of Great Guaro..
This game also will fad all.
America linemen facing earn other
Ed Molinski of Tennessee and
blackjack Harry" Smith of the
Trojans. both of them guards.
Therell be two more in the Sugar
boWl-Jarring John Kimbrough.
the fullback who does the majority
of the ball-carrying for Texas A..
and M, and Harley McCollum, the
biggest tackle in two 20O-pound
Tulane lines. Of their past per-
formances, this game shapes up as
a battle OF the Aggies' better-bal-
anced attack and sound defense
against those burly Green Wave for
wards and an offense that has pro-
duced its scores chiefly on power
plays, with only infrequent resort
to aerial maneuvers.
In Miami's Orange Bowl, the size
and the power will be on the side
OF Missouri's Big Six champion
Tigers. with deception and speed
the chief weapons of Bill Alex
ander's Georgia Tech squad which
tied Tulane and Tennessee for the
Southeastern conference title. Mis-
souri, also will have a very potent
weapon in the passes of Paul
Chrlstman, which helped carry Mis-
souri, to victory over all but one of
Its regular-season rivals, Ohio
states Big Ten champions.
II Cafego and Lansdell in the
Rose Bowl, Kimbrough and Bob
Kellogg in the Sugar Bowl, and
Chrlstman and Johnny Bosch in
the Orange Bowl are likely to wage
brilliant individual backfield battles.
there should be another of equal
stature in the Cotton Bowl.
McFadden, towering triple
threat was the chief force that lifted
Clemson into the big-time gridiron
picture-McFadden and his coach,
Jess Nicely Bonnie Banks, helped
chiefly by Loyell (Shad) Bryant in
the backfield and Sophomore Joe
Blalock at end, brought the Tigers.
or Country Gentlemen" as they
prefer to be called, through a season
merred only by one-point loss to
Tulane and marked chiedv/ h,, .