The Key West citizen., 1940-12-11
Magic That Won Stanford Bowl Bid
MAY Even Be More Potent In II
Real Threat For Indians
Next Year Appears To
Be Tough Santa Clara
Eleven
BY SAM JACKSON
AP Feature Service Writer

PALO ALTO. Calf, Dec. IL
The Pacific Coast football teams
which were mopped up by the
amazing Stanford Indians this
season may expect more and
worse of the same in 1941.
Stanford's immediate concern
is its Rose Bowl game with Ne
braska on January l, but as
Coach Clark Shaughnessy and
his men look beyond this event
to next autumn's schedule the
prospect must be much roster
than anything they'll see in Pasa-
dena.
In nine successive games the
Indians have proved themselves
the best on the coast. Next year
they'll be virtually the same
team. No other coast conference
club, with the possible exception
of Oregon loses fewer regulars
by graduation.
Three Regulars Go
To be explicit, first Stringers
who will graduate are Norman
Standlee, the great fullback;
Hugh Gallarneau at right half.
and Stan Graft, an end. When in
juries cut Standlee out, sophO-
more Milton Vucinich was a cap
able substitute and in the cru
cial game with Washington the
team hardly missed Standlee.
Four good ends want Crafts
job leaving only right half really
vacant. ShaughneSSy's juggling
this year would indicate that the
plugging of single weak spot is
hardly problem.
The real 1941 threat to Stanford
appears at this writing to be lit
tie Santa Clara.
Until Shaughnessy lifted the
Indians from last place in 1899 10
the coast championship in 1910,
Santa Clara'S Buck Shaw was the
wonder man of western football.
This season Stanford managed to
beat Santa Clara z to 6, but
Shaw's boys went undefeated for
the rest of their schedule.
Like Shaughnessy. Shaw's 1910
team will 60 over into the new
season almost intact Next sea-
sons Santa Clara club is expected
to be one of the nations really
great teams.
Meanwhile the resurgence of
Stanford has set off a volume of
football discussion such as this
region has not known in many
day. Most of it is along Horatio
Alger lines with Clark Shaugh-
messy as the hero.
Shaughnessy. once known as a
good coach in New Orleans, spent
seven lean years at the University
of Chicago where football was
de-emphasized. Then Chicago dis
continued intercollegiate football
altogether.
ShaughneSSy, stin on the facul
ty at $1,000 year. was invited to
coach intramural Six-man foot
ball teams.
Finally Got Job
Bitter and discouraged. he tried
for the vacant berth at UCLA.
failed. and then set out to sell
himself to Stanford His chances
hung by thread at times. and he
finally was chosen over opposi-
ton of some alumni who wanted
Buck Shaw, Jock Sutherland or
Dud DeGroot.
He had two strikes on him
when he started, commented one
man on the inside of delibera-
tions. The way he overcame the
situation probably can be de-
scribed under five heads:
His team got an eXtraordl-
narily thorough grounding in
football fundamentals.
2-He radically reshuffled posi-
tions.
She picked the ancient T for
nation as best adapted to his ma
terial and worked it into baf-
fling offense.
If HE instituted a kindly but
firm discipline in a squad that
was suspected of having run
pretty wild.
5-His own will to win was IN
tense and he managed to instill
the same spirit into his men.