The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-02
New Years Day Is Next
Big Date On Grid Slatt
Five Teams Definitely Named
For Four Important Post
Season Bowl Games
BY BILL BONI

the last major date on the current
college football calendar.
On that afternoon eight of the
c%ountry's leading teams will have it
out in int%ersectional battles in the
Rose Bowl at. Pasadena, Calf; the
Cotton Bowl at Dallas, Tex; the
Sugar Bowl at New Orleans, and the
Orange Bowl at Miami, Fla.
So far only five teams definitely
have been named-Stanford to rep
resent the west in the Rose Bowl,
Fordham the east in the Cotton Bowl,
| Tennessee and Boston College to
meet in the Sugar Bowl, and Missis-
sippi State to play at Miami.
Six teams figure most prominently
as candidates for the three vacancies.
| Stanford is expected to name Ne
braska, once-beaten Big Six cham
pion; Penn State, also rumored a
Rose Bowl possibility, and Lafayette
appears to be in the Orange Bowl
race, and the Southwest conference,
in a Geographic poll tomorrow, is
to choose among Texas A. and M,
| Southern Methodist and Rice as the
home team in the Cotton Bowl. The
Aggies, though upset 10 by Texas
last Thursday, are said to stand the
best chance.
In the smaller Sun Bowl it will
be Arizona State against Western
Reserve.
The five big-league teams which
definitely are bowl-bound seWe-
things up with varying impressive
performances in their last regular
games of the year.
Stanford and Tennessee rate spe-
cial mention. The Indians, who fin
ished unbeaten and united with G
1877 CONQUEST of California after be-
ing the coast conference cellar team
in 1889, thus wrote the n~ext-to-last
chapter of one of the finest come-
back stories of this or any other
season in their first year under
Coach Clark Shaughnessy.
Tennessee, often criticized for play
ing too many minor league rivals,
still can point with justifiable pride
to 80 consecutive regular-season VIC
tories and to the feat of being the
first team to play in three different
bowls in three successive years
the Orange, where they won in 1889;
the Rose, where the lost to Southern
California in 1910, and now the Su-
gar.
Both we're in good form yesterday.
Stanford, marching So and IS yards
to first-half scores, beat a Califor-
mia team that was tough despite
the loss of star tackle Bob Rein
hard and star back Jim Jurkovich.
Tennessee, with Johnny Butler and
BUST Warren ripping off long gains,
held Vanderbilt penned inside it's own
Al in banking the Commodores, 200.
Least impressive was Boston Col
lege. The Eagles, in gaining their
10th straight triumph by 10 over
Holy Cross, had to get the breaks,
the final one a recovered tumble on
the Crusade 5-yard line.
Fordham, meanwhile, won its bid
to Dallas with a $50 rout of New
York U. that saw Sophomore Steve
Filipowicz u for three t~ouchdoWns
and pass for the fourth. The Mis-
sissippi State, with Harvey Johnson
the offensive star and a hard-bitten
line throwing Alabama for a 16-yard
loss on two plays before 'Bama got
first down on the State S, topped the
Crimson Tide, 1870. Fordham finish
ed with only n defeat, 9-6 by st.
Mary's. Mississippi State had only
a TT tie with Auburn to mar its
record.
Nebraska closed its campaign by
Kansas State, 200. Walt
Luther was the Huskers' ace back,
picking up ISL of the teams 341
yards and going over for touchdowns
from the 80 and the 35-yard lines.
Southern Methodist and Rice pre-
pared for their clash next Saturday
victories over Texas Christian
1910 and Baylor by Flip, respec-
The Mustangs went to touch
downs off a recovered tumble and an
Intercepted T. C. U. pass, while Rice
was paced by Fullback Bob Brumley,
who went owe for all three touch
downs and booted the extra points
as the Owls overcame a 1910 deficit.
The S. NJ. U.-Rice meeting will en-.
able the winner to tie the Aggies
for the southwest conference cham
pionship.
Biggest and perhaps dullest game
of the day that had no post-season
angles was the annual Army-Navy
duel, which found Navy gaining an
easy 14-0 victory to keep Larson
an Annapolis by-word and a
West Point crossword for yet another
The Middle coach, Major Swede
helped beat Army in his
three years as a player and now has
whipped the Cadets twice in two
years as head coach.
The only other eastern game saw
rally to beat Carnegie
Tech. 14-7, to finish the year with
only one loss.
Sole surprises of the day occurred