Evening star., 1940-11-12
Both Top Pro Teams
In Poundage, Aver
Victim Coaches
Nal Stevens Declares
Hoyo DooIon Fastest
Back in Country
By GRANTLAND RICE,

NEW YORK, Nov. u (N.ANAD -
Sporting pages this swiftly passing
autumn have been filled with bally-
hoo for Cornell, Minnesota, Michi-
gan, Texas A. and M, Notre Dame.
Tennessee, Stanford and many
others. But the real battle of the
giants takes place in Boston on
Saturday when Boston College and
Georgetown meet.
In the first place, they have an
amazing record of victorious marches
Georgetown hasn't lost game since
Hector was a pup Only Florida has
checked the Boston College on
slaught in the last two years-bar-
ring Clemsons fine win in the Cot
ton Bowl.
But when We say giants in this
case, we mean giants. We mean
earnest athletes ranging from 900
to $50.
Nal Stevens of N. Y. U. and Herb
Kopf of Manhattan have, between
them. played both teams. Both admit
that Georgetown and Boston College
dIt UlSStI lIldll liIC >biNSii LAY
Packers, the Chicago Bears, or any
other pro team. Their weight aver
age has been given out as approx
mately 21l pounds, meaning each
man on the first teams. And some
of the substitutes run above $50.
This should be the collision of
the mastodon and the mammoth
something that hasn't taken place
since the Pliocene age-or is it
the Neolithic?
Have Speed, Plus Heft.
They may not be the two best
football teams in the world. but
they at least are among the best,
for both have speed as we'll as bulk
Jack Doolan of Georgetown can
travel the 100 in 81. Nal Stevens
of N. Y. U. is willing to wager a
cigarette light that Doolan can out
run any back in the country. in
cluding the fleet Franck of Min
nesota. Boston College has passers
and fleet runners in addition to her
260-pound Chuck Gladchuck at CEN
leap from crag to crag, according
to Herb Kopf, and B. C. also has
star end in Goodreault, one of the
countrys best.
Boston College and Georgetown
already have approached the vicin-
ity of 500 scoring points
Who or whom have they played?
Will, together they have packed
in nearly 80 points against Tulane
and Temple combined which GER
tainly are no shove-arounds for
anybody. Boston College alone has
scored so points against Tulane and
Temple
How many teams would like to
wager some mere trif1e they could
equal this count against these two
teams?
Want Tougher Opposition.
AS Coaches Hagerty and Leahy
admitted, wed be much obliged
to play teams who'll play US
1t was around Lexington where
shots were fired that were supposed
to be heard around the world 1t
will be in the same neighborhood
that the clash and crash of flesh
against flesh may be heard almost
as far
This should be a whacking good
game, with the accent on the
whack
Outside of few scattered games,
the harassed old grads now have
only three big Saturdays left. The
strain already is beginning to tell
with so few left among the un-
beaten and the united, but the
suffering soon will be over A ma
jority of the teams will quit firing
a week from Saturday, meaning
November 23
This shows you how swiftly a
fall season can slip away into the
records The Big Nine and the
Ivy retire from action on that day,
but Army and Navy, Fordham and
N Y. u, the South and the
Southwest through better weather
conditions, keep on to the final
November day.
Bowl Competition Uniform.
Notre Dame and Southern Cali
fornia remain in action until De-
cember S, just about in time to
clear the road for the various Bowls
which look to have first-class at
fractions with so many strong
teams looking for winter eXcur-
sion.
Rose Bowl gate receipts still have
the call, but Sugar, Orange, Cotton
and Sun can offer just about the
same competition, strong enough
for packed stands on New Years
Day.
Most of the Bowl decisions can be
set up in the next two weeks. The
scramble from then on will be we'll
above the average, with 10 teams
needed. And this doesn't include
the big East-West game in San
Francisco nor the battle Of the Blue
and Gray in Montgomery, Ala. ALI
in all close to 400 football players
will be called upon in the seven
cities involved.
Even the Big Nine and the Ivy
will contribute their share to the
East-West and the Nortn-South
programs on an individual basis,
where the college isn't concerned
as any unit. In this way California
will get another look at Tommy
Harmon, although the first Cah-
fornia peek was said to be an eyetull:
Carl Snavely, the Cornell nelo
marshal, is one of the main leaders
In the Rlue -Gray renewal at Mont