Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-15
Sports Parade
-Bv HENRY McLEMORE-


LOS ANGELES. Dec. Ia (UP)-
The bowl games get the publicity
but the east-west game in San
Francisco gets the players.
More all-American players than
you can shake a stick at (even if
you are one of the ranking stick
shaker-atters in the country will
be on the field of Kezar stadium
near the Golden Gate on New
Years day.
If either the western team or
the eastern outfit was playing any
one of the Rose, Sugar, Cotton or
Orange bowl clubs, you'd have to
take a bet on the all-stars.
If you don't think so, just take
a peek at the squads which the
Messrs. Matty Bell and Babe Hol-
lingbery of the west and Messrs.
Andy Kerr and Bernie Bierman
will have to work with. The eastern
backfield alone is worth the price
of admission to the game If Kerr
and Bierman want to-and they'll
have their heads examined if they
don't-they can start Tom Harmon,
Dave Allardice, Forest Evashevski
and Milt Piepul.
That's a four-man football plague,
pure and simple. Harmon is the
greatest runner Of this year, GER
tainly. and he may be the great
est of all time. Allerdice of Prince
ton provided most of the poison in
that Ivy colleges attack. He's the
O'Brien operated for Texas Chris
tan, and the team he had to pro-
tect him wasn't much. When a
fellow completes % passes for 1853
yards, as Allerdice did against
Pennsylvania, you know he can
chunk in any league
EvaShevski is the blocker. To be
exact. he's the blocker that Har-
mon credits for making him the
ball of fire he was at Michigan.
Evashevski rates with Britton, COW
boy Hill, Brill, and Guyon as super
football moving machines. AS for
Piepul, he is one of the finest full
backs ever turned out by Notre
Dame, and that's quite a fair full
back victory Milt was hampered
by leg injury during the regular
season but will be in top shape
for the shrine game. That means
he'll be able to throw his 210
pounds into the line, and throw it
fast.
Just try to recall a better COL
lege backfield of recent years than
that one You'll be a long time
settling on one. To spell these four
the east has such players as Frank
Reagan, the best college kicker in
ten years and a whale of a ball
carrier despite his collapse against
Michigan this year; Red Harnen-
stein, Northwestern ace, and Paf-
! frath. Kracum and Mucha, all stars.
The west won't have as many
acknowledgement aces in it's back
field, but therell be plenty of class.
+ Pitching Paul Christman will be
on hand, and so will Dean Nc
Adams, who will give Reagan a
tA4 ACl hiShiAAb libiiOlo' IoOD CO
pies. who made one of the great
broken field runs of the year TO
score against Notre Dame last Sat
urday. will be in harness, and SO
Will his teammate, Bapta, as well
as such talented Workmen as Jimmy
johnson, Elmer Gantry and Andy
Marefos.
None of the opposing bowl back
fields figure to put on the show
these boys are almost certain 70
stage.
Al-Ainerica players are scatter
ed through the opposing lines
There are Much of Washington
Younce of oregon State, Ruffa OF
Duke. Drahos Of Cornell and Enich
of Iowa.
The coaching of the two teams
is fine balance between razzle-
/ dazzle and power. Kerr is a foot
ball Houdini who pulls halfbacks
out Of nowhere and Bierman goes
for the power. On the western side
Matty Bell will take care of the
trick stuff with Hollingberry sup
plying the power.
The game is for charity but II
won't be a charitable affair. Mo-
when these squads collide.