The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-01-03
LAST MINUTE
 SCORING PASS
 DEFEATED DUKE
Southern Cal. Pulls Rose Bowl Game "Out of the
 Fire" Before 93,OOO
By HENRY McLEMoRE

United Press Staff Correspondent
 Pasadena, Cal, Jan. 3-(UP)- Anything from new baby buggy to a filling station openng is stupendous and colossal in California, but for once the citizens used those words rightfully today in describing the Rose Bowl football game.
 In fact, a few new ones must be coined to adequately describe the situation that developed yesterday when Southern Californa licked Duke, 7-3, with story book finish in the greatest game of series be- gun in 1916.
 Other post-season games had threatened to take some of the lus- ter from the daddy of 'em all; Duke had been belttled as a foe un- worthy of facing the mghty Trojans; and the boys around the country were sayng the Rose Bowl was passe.
 But many, many more football games will be played in this land be- fore they put on another like this. Because, with the largest crowd in history, 93,000, looking on the Tro- jans won on a touchdown pass in the last 40 seconds of play; came home in front with fewer seconds left than a breath can be held.
 Got More Money
 The only consolation for Duke, which hadn't even been scored upon before yesterday, was that it got more gold than U. s. c. The gate also broke all previous records and of the some $310,000 cut up, the boys from Durham, N. C., left for home with $11o,000, or $20,000 more than was collected by the Trojans who shouldered the nome team" ex- penses.
 But Duke, already richly endowed, caught its special train in a mood as blue as its playing jerseys. Lead ing by three points-the result of a field goal by Tony Ruffa on the sec- ond play of the last period-the Dukes thought they were in. Then, out of sky that wasn't blue; out of a sky, in fact, that was heavy with rain clouds, Southern California rained passes. With an obscure fourth string quarterback throwing them, and a substitute end catching them, Southern California's passes moved t0 a tolIchdovn
 The Trojans swept 61 yards in 10 plays, the last four of which were aerials from Doyle Waves to Alvin Krueger. Krueger caught the last one in the end zone, and Duke was licked.
 This winning play was duplicate of the one the Trojans used in scor- ing in the last few seconds against Notre Dame. It broke the back of the Irish that day, and yesterday it spoiled a magnificent stand by an out-manned, out-weighted Duke team, until it was thrown, no one in the vast stadium thought South ern California had chance to win. And when it settled in the arms of Krueger, the great gathering of Tro- jan packers, who had hundreds of thousands of dollars riding on their heroes, rose in one of the maddest football demonstrations of all time. They yelled. They jumped. They ran down on the field. They went, for minute or two, insane.
 Southern California won the Rose Bowl game, its fifth without loss, because of superior manpower. This does not mean that Nave did not pass with magnificent abandon and surety, or that Krueger did not re- ceive in superb fashion.
 All In
 Both boys were great, but they were working against team that was dead on its feet. I talked to an official of the game and he agreed with Coach Wallace Wade of the Dukes, that had it not been for weariness the Blue Devils would have knocked down the pass.
 We were all right as long as they didn't show us more than three teams" Wade said after the game, but when they came up with fresh and talented fourth-stringers, 1t was too much. Krueger simply outran our end, Bailey. And Nave had all day to pass, because our linemen were just too tired to rush him."
 Southern Californians differed with this opinion. They said the victory was the result of the hottest" throw ing arm in the history of the Rose Bowl. Maybe they are right, because certainly no passer, even Sammy Baugh or Davey O,Brien, ever threw better ball than Waves did in that fictional finish.
 Four for Four
 Under terrific pressure, with every thing to lose and everything to gain, the boy who had been on the bench all season fired four passes, and con- nected with all of them.
 Howard Jones, coach of the Tro- jans, was almost too weak to talk after the game. He was still in a stupor. But when he came down to earth he managed to say that in all of his 30 years of coaching he had never sat through such finish, and that he hoped the next thirty years would not bring him a duplicate oi 1t.
 The 25th Rose Bowl game, save for those few minutes in the final period was 8 slow. and tiresome game. Neither team could get any, where. Duke played strictly fol breaks that never came. Its line would hold and then Eric (The Red) Tipton would thunder punt dowr the field.
 Tipton was far and away the best back on the field. The big fellow ran as well or better than anyone else. and his tremendous kicking held Southern California at bay un- til the dying minutes of the game Duke threatened only once and tht