Evening star., 1942-01-02
Mud Makes Tilt
AtNew0r|eans
Only yTight0ne
Oregon States Win
Is Great Surprise;
Texas Teams Suffer
BY HAROLD CLASSEN,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

NEW YORK, Jan. 2.-Everywhere
but at New Orleans, where Fordham
slogged to a 2-to-0 triumph over
Missouri. touchdowns in the annual
football bowl games yesterday were
as numerous as New Year Day head
aches.
At Miami, Georgia and Texas
Christian players popped over the
goal line with all the regularity of
habit running the best of resolutions
as the Bulldogs of the Southeast
Conference triumphed, 40 to 26.
Oregon State got three and Duke
two as the West Coast Champions
fooled every one but their coach in
upsetting the Blue Devils, 20 to Is,
in the Rose Bowl game at Durham,
N. C.
And Alabama crossed the double
stripe four times and Texas A. & M.
three times In the Crimson Tides
% to 81 Cotton Bowl victory.
No Surprise in Sugar Bowl.
The Fordham- Missouri score was
not surprise. 1t was compliment
to the two teams who were forced
to play on field that resembled
Louisiana bayou.
Fordham's two points came early
in the first period when Don Green
wood, Missouri end. dropped back
to punt and the water-logged boot
was blocked by Tackle Alex Santilli
OF the Rams. The ball squirted
through the end zone before Stan
Ritinski, Fordham TANKER, got con-
troll of it.
That was all the scoring the 73,-
900 spectators, most of them peek
Ing from beneath umbrellas, saw,
although each club gained apprOxi-
mately $50 yards and the supposedly
non-passing Midwesterners COM
pleted three aerials in five tries.
In manufacturing their upset, the
lovly rated Oregon Staters scored
first and never permitted the
vaunted Duke squad to get ahead,
much to the dismay of the 5000
damp spectators who jammed their
way into the stadium built to hold
but $4,000.
Don Durdan, the slim halfback
who passes with his left hand, was
the payoff player, although the
Beavers winning touchdown was
manufactured on q 70-yard pass
and run play from Bob Dethman to
Gene Gray in the third period.
Texas Ags Waste Effort.
| Alabama used the minimum of
effort in turning back the Cadets of
Texas A. and NJ, collecting its four
touchdoWns while gaining only IS
yards by rushing and passing while
registering but a lone first down. The
Texans, who could get only three
touchdowns, gained 800 yards and
IS first downs.
The Tides success was q tribute
to Jimmy Nelson. their ace back
who scampered 70 yards on a punt
return and later registered from 81
yards out.
Frank Sinkwich, the broken
jawed all-America halfback, was the
difference between . Georgia anc
Texas Christian, the latter clever
dropping its first bowl decision ir
four outings.
Three times Sinkwich flipped
scoring aerias and once he broke
loose on q 43-yard touchdown jaunt
Of his own. He and his mates COM
bined for q 40-to-7 lead before the
Texans realized the game was under
way.
On the other bowl fronts, Tulsa's
Missouri Valley champions LASTED
for fourth-period touchdown anc
a 6-to-0 verdict over Texas Tech
in the Sun Bowl: Langston, Okla.
blanked Morris Brown, 13 to 0. ir
the Vulcan Bowl for the Negro
championship and Louisiana Colleg.
bested the University of Mexico. II
to 0, in Mexico City for the Orchie
Bowl crown.