Evening star., 1942-11-04
Dixie Fans Split
Over Their Two
Great Teams
Clash Between Them
Will Settle Debate:
Wisconsin Close Up
BY GRANTLAND RICE,
CORRESPONDENT of The .atay

special Correspondent Of The Star.
NEW YORK, Nov. 4. GN.A.N.A0-
II football has any new Big Thre.
this season their names are Georgia
Georgia Tech and Boston College
And you might add that Wisconsin
isn't far away.
Any two teams that together can
pile up nearly so points against
Alabama and Duke must have a
world of football ammunition. Any
team that can beat Georgetown A
to 0, as Boston College did, can't be
crowded too far back.
On our recent trip to Atlanta We
tried to lure more than q few ex-
perts who had seen both teams offer
some opinion of comparative Georgia
and Georgia Tech strength.
Most of them were pretty wary
They'll tell you about Georgia 's
strong line and then about Techs
even bigger one. They'll tell you
about Sinkwich and then switch to
Castleberry and Prokop. They finish
by admitting they would rather wait
until the two teams meet in Athens
on November %.
Will Be Classic Battle.
Georgia and Georgia Tech, ancient
rivals, have put on more than q
few highly spirited classics. but this
one should be their all time top
It is one certain to be closely con-
nected with any national champion
ship.
Georgia now has this edge over
Georgia Tech-the Bulldogs already
have beaten Alabama. Tech still
has Alabama to meet and beat be-
fore facing Georgia. 1t is asking a
lot from any team to beat both Ala
bama and Georgia-for Alabama
shouldn't be underrated. Frank
Thomas has a great line and a set
Of fast-moving backs.
He had everything but the air
defense needed to break up the Sink
wich passes. Few will have that
this season. For he can pass, and
in the two Davis entries and Prosch-
ner he has three star receivers.
Tech, however, has one of the
most dangerous attacking combina-
tions football ever has. known-a
star passer and a brilliant bali car
rier who also can pass.
They are comparing Freshman
Castlebrry with Senior Sinkwich in
AtlantA-and are waiting to find odt
which! Will be the better all-around
man when they meet.
b. C. Has Great Passer.
Meanwhile two other teams have
moved high up. They are Boston
College and Wisconsin.
I doubt that any team in the list
has greater power than the B. c.
are both big and fast
who have in big Holovak one of
the great backs of the season.
In the same way Harry Stuhldre-
her has the Wisconsin Badger at
full gallop. 1t takes quite batch
of football stuff to whip Ohio State
by any decisive margin. In Elroy
Hirsch and Pat Harder Wisconsin
has two of the finest backs of the
year, and Wisconsin has built up
her defense strength amazingly.
No soft defense is going to check
such teams as Notre Dame, Mis-
souri, and Ohio State. who have
both the passers and the ball car
riers
Wisconsin now is well in the lead
for the Big Nine title-in a season
where the class is high and the op-
position well above normal. ~
Only an unusually strong team
could lead such rivals as Mime
sofa, Michigan and Ohio State.
Vols and Penn Flashy.
In addition to Wisconsin and Bos-
ton College, Tennessee is another
team that has moved well forward
after its loss to Alabama. Pennsyl-
vania has recovered her earlier
stride and is almost certain to
romp the rest of the way.
And don't overlook Yale's upward
surge In the biggest Jump Of the
year
Boston College has a great chance
to stay unbeaten, although Holy
Cross always has her share of poison
for B. c. I doubt the Crusaders can
handle the job this fall-after b. C.'s
overwhelming margins over Wake
Forest and Georgetown. Fordham
,an offer stiff resistance-but the
Ram line may be badly overpow-
cred.
Georgia Tech will have to be the
best team in the country to beat
both Alabama and Georgia. Maybe
Georgia Tech Is.