The Phoenix index., 1941-11-08
--latest National Standings)

Prairie View 4 o 1872 2S 1OOo
Taxss o 81 21 1000
F;sk 2 1S Is 1000
Tssksgss Tl;s s 9 49, 1ss sss .sss sss
Laneston Tl,st ... i 0 70 ss .sss
Lanes'On 1ne .'-- = % 4S IS 800
Soytbern Sorf j o 80 27 .75o
Shaw %
IF THE NATIONS UNBEATEN, united list of colored
football teams reduced just three the past week as
Foridas Men in Orange dynamited Lanes Hed Dragons
48O and ended their brilliant early winning strea
at four in a row The almost incredible margin by wnlch
Florida slaughtered the Tennesseeans accenuaes the e
tent to which the Ratters aroused and 1ncesed over
their 200 loss to Morris Brown week before
Dropped from the class the past week also was
shaws onceed Bears and Johnson shs & Twice "ea
State Eagles 16O for the atters fifth straight 194 WIN
Meanwhile, Jap Hurts Morgan Bears went to town. III
over the Bulls of Charlotte The safety registered by Smith
against Morgan marred the Bears record OF holding
opponent scoreess, and removed the last
team in Negro football.
Prairie View kept pace with Morris Brown, N c. State
and Morgan trimming the Tllotson Eagles $50 Unbeaen
but tied Texas and Fisk idle was South
ern However Tuskegee Florida, and Langston all moved
forward Tuskegee sacked s. c. State 1872 and Langso
squeezed through 60 on Xavier.
Morris Brown the only club in the country to win as
many as six games ~ c. State, Tuskegee Florida
Langston the lone quartet to win as many as i've
thus far.
the race sectional honors in the CIAA W1ber1orce
scrambled back into the national standings by blasting &
coin (Mo) 1916 and has numerical lead IN the MID
western loop with conference wins against defeat
while Kentucky State has loop win in one start Prae
View and Texas are undsputed unefeated leaders in the
Southwest Morris Brown is in class by herset IN the tough
STAG. ~ ,
triple threat unaninlOus-chOice AlAmercan ullback
1910 high with points in eight games is getting
than he barganed for in the current individual scoring
derby. an
Leading the point-naking parade for example, is Albert
Cant Foridas mighty batterng ram fulback, with ~
in & i've "a ee Iedy 6e9ra s an led 'VG with points,
only to be overtaken by Moooody with Al This time was
Cant who caught up with and passed Moody by thin mar
Close behind Cant and Moody is Joting Joe Jenkins,
Morris Brown haIfback and eammae of Moodys who now
boasts points (Stonewa Leake of Benedict has
38 Cant made touchdowns against Lane and Jenkins
pair against Alabama State Saturday Moody tailed once
against Bama but Leake held scoreless b the moro
breds.
The SNS sports desk had the usual number of betset
ng questions to the past Sunday evening after th
observer returned from weekend officiating trip IN
Orangeburg where the host s. C. State eleven bowed
to Tuskegee in a wide open, free-scoring ball game:
The first caller wanted to clear the question as to
whether either Louis Schmeng world champion at
the time they for the first time and the Brown Bomber
kayOed < =
The caller was told that neither Louis Schmeling
but Jimmy Braddock was champion of the world when
Louis and scheng met for the first time June 22 1879 IN
Yankee Stadium with Louis being kayoed in the twelfth
round He told further that the bout elimination
contest decide the challenger deserving first shot at Brad
docks title It explained that Schmeng earned that
right but afraid of the effect Naz boycott might have
the gate receipts with aner sentiment raging Mike
Jacobs his Twentieth Century Sporting Club conferees
"deraied' Schneng, carried Louis the comeback
trail Bomber the shot at Braddock
in Chicago June g. 1887 when Louis the world heavy
weight crown When Louis and defeated Scmelng in
their second battle June g. 1885, explained that Lou
was himself the champion.
caller desired to settle the question to wheth
er Johnny Bosch Techs brilliant passslinging field
general got back the ball game against Duke Satr
day after removed the second quarter because OF
injury
Not having the game and having failed to read an
of because of the of time after getting
back from Oangeburg the column checked by telephone with
Coach W. A. Alexander Tech head who said Bosch dld
not re-enter the game
m s4 Is. sd putting the finishing touches
lin theselo
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