Evening star., 1941-11-29
Bowl Bid Hopes
Squirting Some
In Grid Finale
Vondy, Oregon Stote.
Stanford, Fordhom
Eye Big Prizes
BY HAROLD CLAASEN,

NEW YORK, Nov. 29.-Gold braid
and silver medals at Philadelphia in
the annual Army-Navy fray and
other contests where the gold and
silver of bowl bids are at stake make
up today's gridiron finale.
While the future admirals and gen.
erals play before $4,000 fans in the
Quaker City Municipal Stadium, it
will take almost score of games to
unravel the puzzling January l sit
lation.
On the West Coast, where the
mystery is greatest, the defending
champion Stanford club takes on
he Golden Bears of California with
4 victory needed to give the Indians
another Rose Bowl candidacy. Far
her north, oregon and oregon State
collide. with the latter club also
hunting a win to inform the Bowl
Committee of its availability.
Big Battle in Mississippi.
Both Stanford and Oregon State
have been defeated twice within the
coast circle, which provides the host
eleven, but the Beavers have played
more league games than has Stan
ford and also include the T-minded
indians among their victims. At Los
Angeles, Southern California and
Washington will be busy.
Most of the days action, how
ever, is concentrated in the South
where Mississippi and Mississippi
State meet at oxford for the unoff-
cial championship of the South
eastern loop-and any invitation the
mailman may bring.
In the same general area. Lou
isiana State meets its choicest rival,
Tulane: Tennessee plays the sur
prising Vanderbilt eleven, and
Georgia mixes with Georgia Tech
Vanderbilt and Georgia are bowl
candidates.
In addition there are such other
fixtures as Clemson VS.. Auburn.
Richmond VS. V. P. l., Sewanee at
the Citadel, North Carolina State
VS.. William and Mary and such
intersectional affairs as Texas Tech
at Wake Forest and Penn State at
South Carolina.
'Bama Rolls Over Miami.
The South also furnished all the
action on last nights sharply-cur-
tailed program, with Alabama trim
ming the sophomore-studde Miami
University squad, 81 to 7: Rollins
blanking Howard, % to 0: Newberry
trimming Erskine, 27 to 6, and
Oglethorpe blasting Troy, 81 to 0.
Jimmy Nelson. the Florida lad
who plays for Alabama, guided the
Crimson tide to the victory. wit
messed by 24,644 spectators in the
Orange Bowl.
The East has a smattering of in
tersectional games today, but Its
gems are family disputes.
Fordham. its bowl hopes in evi-
dence again. will try to make every
one forget the Pittsburgh defeat by
lambasting New York University. a
team that hasn't even scored in its
past five games: pure Pittsburgh
takes on equally pure Carnegie Tech,
and Holy Cross battles Boston Col
lege.
Some Intersectional Play.
The intersectional card finds
Michigan State at West Virginia,
the team that held Army to a 7-to-6
decision last week.
In the Midwest, where most OF the
action subsided after last week S
games, Georgetown is the guest Of
Xavier and Kansas State tricks to
Arizona.
A win for Oklahoma over Ne
braska would give the Sooners sec
ond place in the Big Six. behind
Missouri. Iowa State tangles with
Marquette
Down in the Southwest Con-
ference, where every one apparently
loses and wins before the season is
out, Southern Methodist tackles
Texas Christian and Baylor tussles
with Rice