Evening star., 1940-12-24
Boston College
Plans r Party
In Sugar Bowl
Bosic Formation Apt
To Worry Tennessee
New Year Day
BY WHITNEY MARTIN,


NEW YORK. Dec. 24.-Theyll
have little 1T" with their sugar
down at New Orleans New Year
Day
We haven't seen Boston College
play, but we are reliably informed
that Coach Frank Leahy mixes a
bit of that football primer formation
in the battling, unorthodox attack
he has developed and that the stall
wart Vols of Tennessee won't be
able to find the answer to all this
in one lesson.
Our admiration for the B. C. team
dates back to the Georgetown game.
A Georgetown follower had talked
so convincinglv of the power and
glory of the Hoyas that he had
convinced us they practically were
unbeatable, and when Boston took
that one-point decision there was
nothing to do but concede that here
was team which could improve
on perfection.
Vols Defense Remarkable.
ooL hlIoW iCuSC Vi
isn't Just hearsay, however, and
we make haste to explain that Bos-
ton will have to play all its foot
ball in the Sugar Bowl if it hopes
to win.
We watched the Vols ramble over
a Duke team that had been rated
one of the best in Blue Devil his
tory. The Vol attack wasn't too
spectacular, but it was potent. The
defense. however, really was some
thing Only once did Duke get be-
yond midfield.
In any event, the game is nat
ural. and if any of the bowl games
could be considered as involving any
kind of a championship at all. this
is the one. It's the only one of
the four bigger bowl contests match
ing two undefeated teams. with
Boston College undisputed Eastern
champion and the Vols the only
undefeated, united major team in
the South. The game should settle
any differences between those two
sections at least.
Sugar Bowl Gets Choice.
The Sugar Bowl officials wisely
did their New Year shopping early
this year, making their selections
before the field had been paved
over, and they've come up with a
prize winner.
That doesn't mean the other bowl
games are run O. the mill affairs
On the contrary, every game matches
fine teams which seem. from this
distance at least to be of equal
strength That most of the other
teams suffered defeats by small
margins does not necessarily mean
they are weaker than the undefeated
teams. A defeat Just takes away
little glamour. that's all.
The goal of bowl committees is
to bring together undefeated and
united teams representing major
schools. Year bv year this is be-
coming more difficult. as evidenced
by the fact that only the Sugar
Bowl could do it this year.
Rivals Match Rose Bowl.
Were it not for the fact that
conference rules and sometimes
other factors prevent some eligible
schools from competing in post
season games the problem often
would be much easier.
AS it is, however, football is be-
coming so standardized, the quality
of the teams on such a uniform
level, that for one team to go through
a representative or 9 or 10 game
schedule without getting its wings
clipped approaches the impossible.
There are four good bowl games
bidding for the services of the teams
with the best records now. And
whereas at one time, when the Rose
Bowl ruled the roost with a naughty
air, the teams accepted the bid or
else, today the better teams often
have a choice of bowls.