The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-27
EASTERN TEAMS PICKED TO WIN
 NEW YEAR TILTS
Nebraska Has Power and Reserves to Stop Stan-
 ford Says Super
BY HENRY SUPER

United Press Staff COrrespOndent)
 New York, Dec. 27-(UP)-The East will make a clean sweep of the New Years Bowl games.
 I'm playing a hunch and picking them as follows:
 Rose Bowl-Nebraska over Stan ford.
 Sugar Bowl-Boston College over Tennessee.
 Cotton Bowl-Fordham over Texas AggieS.
 Orange Bowl-Georgetown over Mississippi State.
 Sun Bowl-Western Reserve over Arizona State at Tempel.
 Shriners' All-Star game East over West.
 All the choices but the eastern All-Stars are underdogs in the early betting, but I'm still going to ride with the east because
 Rose Bowl: Nebraska has plenty of power and is rich in reserve strength. It lost only one game-to mighty Minnesota-and that was one of the Golden Gophers' tough est battles of the season. Stanford won all its games on the Pacific Coast. Its fancy-Dan football was goo denough to fool the western boys-but Nebraska knows all about that T-formation and has the power to break it up.
 Sugar Bowl-Boston College is one of the country's great teams. It has a rugged line, speedy backf1s and dazzling plays. Tennessee also is a great team, unbeaten and united like its opponent. Tennessee plays hard football - making it's own breaks and then striking like light ming. But B. c. is the kind of team that can stand up under hard tack ling and blocking and in addition has the offense to score without first getting any breaks.
 Fcrdham Favored
 Cotton Bowl-year in and year out, Fordham plays one of the toughest schedules in the country. It lost only one game this year-to St. Mary's. The Aggies also lost the same kind of a game, to Texas. Fordham will have to win on pas sing, where it has a shade of an edge over the Aggies. The Fordham line is big enough to stop John Kim brough and I don't think either team will gain much on the ground be- cause both forward lines are big and tough. Steve Filipowicz, the Rams passing back, will provide the win ming margin.
 Orange Bowl-Georgetown was a great team this year. It lost only to another great team-Boston College. The Hoyas have IS seniors who lost only one game in three seasons. The line is big and fast enough to hold back the opposition while the back field is performing magic with the ball. Mississippil State is a speed |outfit-and Georgetown loves to face that kind of team. State plays the same kind of football as Tennessee = make the breaks and score Georgetown is too tough to do any fumbling when tackled or blocked hard.
 Sun Bowl-WeStern reserve has lost only six games since 1885. It has a strong line and fast backfield. Arizona State has one of the fastest backfields in America. By all fig uring, State should win but-in the past two years State played only four games in daylight, and failed to win any of them. Two were de- feats and two were ties. The Sun Bowl game will be played in the daytime, so we're picking reserve on that hunch.
 East-West- Individual brilliance will pay dividends in this game. Coaches Andy Kerr and Bernie Bier man of the Eastern squad have such players as Tommy Harmon. Francis Reagan, Forrest Evashevski and Dave Allerdice to operate in their backfield.