The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-04
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(Reg. .. s. Pat. 0R.) BY HARRY FERGUSON United Press Sports Editor

New Xork, Dec. 4,--IuPl~=Nusn. ing in where angels fear to tread in an attempt to pick tho winners of the New Years Day bowl games;
 Missouri over Fordhaln in the Sugar Bowl-This one should be the best of the bunch. It pits two high. scoring teams against each other and both of them are loaded with fast, powerful, colorful players. As Q guess, FoFdham probably will be the betting favorite, chiefly because of the good impression 1t made in the south and southwest In the Cots ton Bowl game last season. Trying to predict the pattern of football game is like trying to forecast the trend in women's hats, but here's the way I think the game will shape up: Missouri, moving along the ground and exploding for long gains probably will score first. Fordhan will come back with c passing ate tack-and what, a passing attackl-- and the game will see.saw fairly evenly into the final period. At that stage, think. the superiority of the Missouri line will begin to show and the Tigers will come out about one touchdown ahead. Lloyds of London refuses to insure football bets so don't sue if I'm wrong.
 Duke over oregon State in the Rose Bowl-thls one, think, Is just "A aaeA AR MsAA taaVsA AAlSaas tesN UaAA for the other, The Pacific coast probably remembers Duke as 6 strictly defensive team that kicks and waits for the breaks, satisfied to get q tie or win by Q score of 3 to o or [ to 0. Not so this year, Wat son, not SO. Wallace Wade has of- fenslve strength and can start the boys rolling toward pay dirt any, time he feels like 1t. Steve Lach will Do Q revelation in the Rose Bowl, and l wouldn't Do surprised if the score mounted and mounted, say something like 35 to T. Reports from the west coast indicate that Oregon State has a cracker-jaek defensive club, SO they may be able to hold down the score. Nevertheless, I think Duke k tho surest bet of all the Bowl teams.
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 Georgia over Texas Christian in the Orange Bowl-This is the game where one man-Ffank sinkwich of 0eorgia-is going to have a lot to do with the outcome. TCU Is going to find some way to stop Sinkwich from running, and the catch In that Is that if you mass a line closely against him he will drop back and start singing passes. Ask Georgia Tech about that. Tho trouble is that Sinkwich can do everything-run the ends, smack the line and pass. Texas Christian can do Q pretty far Job of throwing the ball, too, with either Gillespie or Nix in there, but there is an old saying in football that you can't score touchdowns unl less you have the ball. The two lines shape up fairly even.
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 Texas AggieS over Alabama in the Cotton Bowl-Maybe I'm of on a tangent here because I saw the Ag- g!es play this season and didn't see Alabama. Another angle is that the day I saw the Aggies they were busy up the gridiron with New York University, which isn't much competition. Nevertheless, think Homer Norton has a slick. powerful and resourceful team that should be able to nose out Alabama. Tn Derace Moser the Aggies have one of the nations finest backs, either in running or throwing the ball. And, of course, there is always that lanky gent named Jitterbug Henderson who is likely to pop out of nowhere and snare touchdown pass. On the other side, Nelson and Rast, United Press All-American end. can cause trouble, too. It should be a tight, hard-fought ball game and Dallas, Tex, wouldn't be a bad place to be on New Years Day.