The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-15
FORDHAM RAMS
 AND MISSOURI
 GET SPOTLIGHT
Rose Bowl Contest May
 Go to Chicago or Dur. ham, North Carolina
BY PAUL sCHEFFELs

United Press Staff Correspondent
 A terse announcement from fourth army headquarters ct San Francisco that cancelled the ie42 Rose Bowl football game put the New orleans Sugar Bowl contest at the head of the annual New Years day gridiron extravaganSas but at the same time brought concern to promoters of big. time sports events throughout the nation.
 Not since 1918 when Major League baseball was cYrtailed by the war department, had Q big time sports schedule been affected by military operations but Lieut.. Gen. John |. Dc Witt demanded cancellation of both the oregon State- Duke unIver- sity Rose Bowl fixture and the Shrine East-West charity game and after Q short conference, both were called off late Sunday,
 Negotiations were begun immedl. atey to transfer the Rose Bowl game scheduled for Pasadena, to an aren where it could be played with army permission.
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 At Corvallis, Orc. 0. V, Rusel, president of the Pacific coast cons ference, said definite suggestions had been made already to play tha game In another city. Soldiers Field at Chicago and Durham, N. e., home Of Duke University, have been men. toned.
 At Durham, Duke officials reveal cd that the suggestion had been made before the cancellation an. nounceaent, A telegram from coach Wallace Wade to Percy I,ocey, Oregon state College graduate manager, said in part: we regret conditions Flecessitating possible cancellation Of the Rose Bowl game have developed but Duke is ready to accept any decision of Oregon State and the tournament of Roses aom. mittee, We wish to suggest Duke Stadium which can accommodate about 5000 spectators. We would welcome your reaction ueither with Rose Bowl sanction or not"
 DO Witt definitely banned playing either game within the area 10 his comlnand..which includes Gil the Tar Western states. He pointed out huge congregations or crowds are highly vulefable to air attack and of highways ir the South. ern California and San Francslco areas would impede vital military traffic.
 Despite the Pacific coast edlct, promoters of tho other three bowl games went ahead with their or. fangefneFts. All, however, expressed willingness to do whatever military authorities suggested.
 At New Orleans, where FordhAm and Missouri are scheduled 10 play ll the Sugar Bowl, officials said they had received no intln,atlon rom the army that cancellation might DO necessary and the game would probably be played.
 Different" In Texas
 Dan Rogers, chairman of the Cot. ton Bowl game at Dallas where the Texas Aggies arc booked to meet Alabama, said he saw mo occasion to cancel the game because the EItu. Atlon on the west coast and in the southwest IS greatly different"
 Representatives of the Orange bowl at Miami where Georgia Is to meet Texas Christian, and the Sun Bowl at El Pas0, Tex. where Tulsa VIII play Texas Tech, nj emphasized they could see no reason to call off their games.
 At New Orleans, the Nays re. loresentative in the Sugar Bowl serr Vice game withdrew Sunday, Capt. A. U: Read, eommandant of the Pen. sacola, Fla naval air station, whose shampion "goslings" had been sehed. lled to meet an army team Jan, 3. telegraphed that participation waS now considered inadvisable,"