Evening star., 1942-11-28
Boston COLLEGE
Tackles Fiery
Ho|yCross
Cougars Out for Coast
Bid; Ascending Vols :.
Move Into Focus
BY HAROLD CLAASSEN,
Associated Press Shorts Writer

NEW YORK, Nov. 28.-Todays
program virtually completes foot
balls first campaign of the present
war and no matter how good or how
bad the teams record, nowhere will
sundown be more eagerly awaited
than at Athens, Boston, Seattle and
Nashville.
Those cities are sites Of games in
volving teams with bowl ambitions
and today's outcomes may determine
which bids-if any-are received.
Generally, however, there also will
be concern regarding games at
Annapolis, where Army and Navy
decide the service championship
before 10000; at Ann Trbor, Mich,
where Iowa and Michigan decide
which is to be the third team in the
Big Ten; and at Los Angeles where
10000 will sit in on a game between
Notre Dame and Southern Califor-
MIA which decides nothing.
The Athens game will draw most
OF the bowl attention because both
participants, all-winning Georgia
Tech and once-beaten Georgia, are
claimants for post-season gold.
Should the Yellowjackets success
fully Withstand Georgia's wrath, it
is expected Tech will head West
for the Rose Bowl.
Coast May Be Switched.
II Georgia wins, however. the
Bulldogs might get the chance to
display frankie Sinkwich to the
Callfornians with Tech going to
either the Cotton Bowl as the foe for
Texas or to New Orleans where Bos-
ton College is expected to be the
party OF the second part in the Sugar
Bowl.
The Eagles must dispose of a ira
dltionally fiery opponent in Holy
Cross before checking the time
tables to the South. Although the
Bostonians are 4-to-1 favorites it
Will be the first time this season
that one of Coach Denny Myers
regulars won't be able to start, Gen.
ter Fred Naumetz being the victim
OF bronchial attack.
Seattle's offering is the Washing
ton State Washington contest in
which a triumph for the Cougars
would clinch at least a share of the
Pacific Coast Conference title and a
possible Western Rose Bowl nomlna-
ton.
Nashville is host to the Wander
ollt-Tennessee affair and the Vols.
alter a sputtering start, have at
tracted enough attention in their
late season trays to gain bowl stat
ure.
Three Pre-Flight Teams PLAY.
Three OF the four pre-fllght
elevens, recently declared out of the
bowl limelight by official Washing
ton, are active today with the Iowa
Seahawks at Ohio State, North Car
DINA Cloudbusters at Fordham in a
homecoming for 1t. Comdr. James
Crowley and Alamaba battling the
Georgia Flyers.
Rice opposes Baylor and Southern
Methodist takes on Texas Christian
In strictly Southwestern Conference
affairs and Kansas State closes the
Big Six season by visiting Nebraska.
Down South, Auburn, now in a
care-for-nothing mood since it
spilled Georgia a week ago, is IA
vored over Clemson, Miami is host
to West Virginia and Duke plays the
Jacksonville Air Station.
Oregon State and Oklahoma A.
and M. invade Michigan for games
with Michigan State and Detroit,
respectively.
Interest in Philadelphia, where
the Army-Navy game would have
been played today before 100000
spectators except for President
Roosevelt's orders, will be centered
on the hometown meeting Of Tenn
pie and Villanova.