The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-02
.O'ROURKE WAS
 SPARKPLUG THAT
 BEAT TENNESSEE
Sugar Bowl Game Won in Last 3 Minutes: 1: Winners
 Came From Behind
BY JACK GUBNTHER

1X JACM GOHN MBM
 (United ffess Stan CofrespOndentl
 New Orleans, jan. S--tuPj --Tl1e smallest boy in the Sugar Bowl was the biggest man in the sugar state today. -
 The name ,s chuckin' Charlie O,fsourke end he's 8 scrAwi1y splil1- ter of lad with c pasty face and a tiift of straw.colored hair. His overall weight Is i64 pounds.
 But Charlie A'Rourke has . pair of piston legs, Q Catapult ar m and A watermelon heart. Yesterday he showed 73,1ol people all three. In two mad minutes end in seven plays he drove the Eagles of Boston College 80 long yards to the tOucf- down which defeated Tennessee, 19- 13, and gave the east its most me- r1orable triumph of the season.
 For 67 minutes two great teams had smashed and pounded one ali- other. Twice the orange-jersied speed artists from Tennessee ripped through to toiichdowvis and twice the young Stalwarts from the Hub came from behind to tie the count.
 The clock showed three minutes to play and the scoreboard showed . score of ls-lS. A desperate Ten- nessee attempt for field goal bare ly missed, and Boston took the ball on Its 20. At. this point Charlie O. Rourke went to work.
 Great Finish
 He and his mates got first down in three plunges. Then he tincoiled his arm. All through the third per- iod he had sat on the bendh, sav- ing irnself for this spot. He Tipped to Ed Zabifski for 20 yards. He Tipped again for more and a first down on the Vols 3l. Yst again he passed--to Frank Maznicki- and again he conected-for> seven yards more.
 Then o,Fourke took to his stubby legs. Around left end he eluded two linemen, brushed by three more orange shirts, got into the clear and raced 24 yards for . touchdown.
 Aside from little Charlie, there was little to choose between the teams. In all but 6 few minutes of the second period-When Tennessee coasted on its lead--the breakaway plays, snap passes and vicious iik1e play kept the record throng in Tus lane stadium in ai1 uproar.
 Tennessee got the first touchdown. O'Rourke funbled punt three minutes after the game started lhe was to redeem himself later) and the Vols began c 46-yard march which Van Thompson culminatet by plunging over from the 2-yare line. Bob Foxx kicked the point. Boston whipped out 6S yards ip one knifing drive but in the second period the game became c bunting duel. Frank Leahy. the Bostor coach, sent Harry Connolly into thu back field on O,aourke's place ant he quickly produced results. s. Big Henry Woronics blocked Foxx,s punt and Joe zibilski recov cred for Boston on the Vols 18 Mamicki made six at left end ant Connolly, behind awesorne blocking skipped the remaining i2 yard down the sideline for Q touchdown Maznicki booted the point. Connolly Clicked Tennessee scored it's second fiv minutes later. It carried the kick-of 65 yards. Warren hucked over iron the three. The try for point wa fumbled. Boston then counteret with a touchdown to deadlock tht score again. Connolly passed arit ran the team 66 yards to the three and there Mike Holovak scored Boston elected to ary a plunge foi the point and fell short.
 The score stayed dead-locked un til O'Rourke went to work in the closing moments of the game. The statistics showed the team remarkably close. The Vols gainec 245 yards, the Eagles 248.
 The defeat was only the second for Tennessee in three years and the eighth in t266 games for Bob Ney- land, their coach. The victory was the eleventh this year fof Boston, which has lost only two games in two years.