Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-12-25
Rate Top as Pickers
L This Gives Rea
Line on Players
Trojons Are Best Liked,
Nine Being Selected
By Four Pro Clubs
By BILL DISMER, Jr.

According to those who have most
praisal-National Football League
coaches-Southern California is by
far the most experienced and power
| full of the 10 combatants in the five
major bowl games on New Year Day
| And looking at the situation from
the other side of the fence, the Red
skins stack up as pro footballs No.
selector in the drawing of 1895 out
standing college seniors.
Foundation for the foregoing as
sertions comes from the fact that
nine of the Trojans' -stringers
were selected by four of the Ma
tional Leagues leading teams in the
recent draft, while eight of the Red
skins 20 draftees will be playing In
Pasadena. Miami and New Orleans
on January l.
Lead in Bowl Players.
No other college team was so ex-
plotted by the pros, and no other
National League member will have
as many draftees in the Forthcoming
spotlights as the Redskins.
BETTING its recognition as still the
ultimate goal of every winning team,
the Rose Bowl game will involve the
services of no less than IA players
deemed big league material. Five
will be playing in the Sugar and
Cotton Bowls and four in the Orange
Bowl. And, thanks to our own Cath
Ole University at least one partici-
pant in the Sun Bowl will get the
offer of a National League contract
Interest of 7 of the leagues 10
teams will be bound up in the
Southern California Tennessee clas-
sic, but none will have as collective
an interest as the Detroit Lions, who
will have eyes on four Trojans and
Volunteer whom they picked in
the draft AS matter of fact, the
Lions first five choices were con-
fined to these two teams, their first
three and fifth being Trojans and
their fourth a Tennessean.
Draft Three Rose BowIers.
The Redskins have prior rights to
Halfback Bob Hoffman and Tackle
Howard Stoecker of Southern CAL
and Halfback Sam Bartholomew of
Tennessee.
That brother act that has been
going on down at Missouri for the
past three years, where the orr
boys not only have the same initial,
r." but play the same position
end. is due to end on Monday, when
the Tigers meet Georgia Tech in the
Orange Bowl, but if both accept
professional offers, they will land on
two National League teams next
year.
Roland has been drawn by the
Redskins and Robert by the Lions
but unless these two teams meet in
the 1910 playoff they won't oppose
each other on the pro grldlron next
year. as the Redskins and Lions
aren't scheduled to meet in regu-
lar season game again until Al.
Foes Later May Be Mates.
Opponents in two Of the New
Year Day games, however, may find
themselves teammates next fall. In
addition to the aforementioned
draftees of the Redskins and Lions
from Southern California and Ten
nessee, the Redskins have picked
three seniors from the Sugar Bowl
rivals, Tulane and Texas A. and M.
Merton Banker and Bill Kerchem,
Green Wave halfback and tackle,
and Joe Boyd, Texas Aggie tackle,
are the Redskins drafteeS.
Following is list of players in
the five bowl games, followed by the
team drafting them. Numbers IN
parentheses to the right OF each
team represent the number OF
seniors picked from it by the pro
clubs.
ROSE BOWL.
So. California 90. Tennessee 90.
Hoffman Bartholomew.
lib (Redskins) HB tRedskins)
Stoecker Cafego. ,->
fRedskinsl HB fCardlnalsl
Nave, lib Lions) Clay, Z Rams,
Fisk. Iions) Rike. c Lions,
Smith tTiopsl Coffman.