Evening star., 1940-11-18
Hoyas Eyeing Battle
With G. W. u. More
Than Bowl Bids
Not CosuoI About Clash
With D. {. RivuIs After
Defect by Eagles
BY LEWIS F. ATCHISON.

A rerun of the Boston College
Georgetown game is the soundest
bowl suggestion heard in this corner
over the week end, and If arrange
ments cannot be made then the next
best thing is bowl bid for both.
But neither Boston College nor
bowl invitations interested Coach
Jack Hagerty today as he opened
preparations for SATURDAYS finale
against George Washington at Grit
fifth Stadium After his narrowing
experience Of last season. when the
Hoyas eked out a TO victory. he
knows Georgetown can i'll afford 10
regard the Colonials lightly and if
it has any bowl aspirations at all
it must hurdle the downtown school
IN convincing style TO keep them
alive.
&c. w. would have been easy for
us had We beaten Boston College"
he said this morning. But the boys
naturally are low after losing that
one and it may be hard to bring
them back. I never have taken
George Washington too casually
myself, but I thought that II We beat
B. c. the boys would would take
G. w. on sheer spirit. Right now
it looks tough"
st. Mary's Date Likely Of.
A proposed game with st. Mary's
in California next month appar-
emily has died a natural death.
Santa Clara put the brakes on tlt
Gaels Yesterday, 1877. and George
towns loss although it was no dis
grace, would tend to take the edge
off such a contest.
If Boston College gets by Auburn
and Holy Gross in its last two games,
which is highly Conjectural after
the bad physical beating it suffered.
it virtually is certain to be invited
back to the Cotton Bowl and equally
certain to accept
Texas A. and NJ. appears to be the
outstanding choice for the Rose
Bowl, with Stanford representing
the Pacific Coast Conference, but
this is the only poSt-Season game
cut to pattern at this writing. Texas
looms as the Cotton Bowl SubSti-
tute for Clemson, although South
ern Methodist remains very much
in the picture, but the Sugar and
Orange Bowl line-ups are far from
decided.
Tennessee. undefeated and going
strong, is a likely nominee for the
Sugar Bowl and they could throw
Southern Methodist or Texas in
with them-although the record of
neither is unsullied-and make quite
an attraction of it.
Hoyas Prove Greatness.
A Georgetown Alabama tilt for
the Orange Bowl sounds good. or
Georgetown Mississippi All three
have dropped one game. Alabama
lost a 1927 decision to Tennessee
and Ole Miss was noSed out by Ar
kansas, 2O-21. so on paper it shapes
up as a worthwhile attraction
The big idea in the poSt-seaSon
battles is to pair off the outStand-
ing representative of one section
with another. but if one bowl could
bring itself to stage the best game
without observing this time-hon-
ored custom it could grab off one
of the afternoons hottest attrac-
tions-Georgetown VS.. Boston Col
lege.
Whatever hesitancy football
writer's have felt about proclaiming
the Hoyas' greatness heretofore be-
cause of their schedule has been
dispelled. Stanley Woodward, New
York Herald-Tribune writer, voiced
the sentiments of many critics in
today's column when he called it
"one of the greatest football games
of all time"
Washington writer's have nurtured
a feeling all along that this is the
greatest aggregation of football play
ers assembled at the Hilltop at one
time and the Hoyas did nothing to
disturb that feeling Saturday. If
anything, they proved our point
and we want to see them bow out
with a bowl victory.
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