Evening star., 1950-11-06
,wI Pictures Taking Shape After Dramatic Shuttle
Rematch Of Oklahoma
With Texas, Sugar
Bid for SMU Hinted
BY the Associated Press

By the Associated Press
NEW YORK, Nov. 6.--The
pieces of college footballs bowl
jig-saw puzzle began falling into
place today. while Southern
Methodist picked up the frag-l
ments of shattered title dreams.
The Mustangs hopes of ma
tional championship were dashed
Saturday against a fierce Texas
line which blunted SINUS famed
attack and ground out a 1920
upset victory at Austin.
However, SMU, like Texas. re-
manned a leading candidate for
one of the top post-season bowl
assignments.
In whipping the Mustangs,
Texas became a stout favorite for
the Southwest Conference crown
and the Cotton Bowl host role
that goes with it.
SMU lost little of its glitter in
the savagely played game with its
aroused neighbor. It's hard toI
forget that the Mustangs hold
the only decision over Ohio State,
being acclaimed In some quarters
as the best in the land.
How Picture Shapes. Up.
Here's long distance look at
the bowls. subject. of course, to
late November revision:
Rose at Pasadena, Calif.-Cali-
fornia VS.. Illinois.
Sugar at New OrleanS-Ken-
lucky VS.. Southern Methodist.
Cotton at Dallas-Texas VS..
Oklahoma.
Orange at Miami-Miami Ella }
VS.. Tennessee or Clemson.
California and Illinois put in
sledgehammer licks for the rich
Pasadena game with important
victories Saturday.
Pappy Waldorf's Golden Bears,
shooting for their third straight
Pacific Coast Conference title,
flashed unexpected air might to
beat favored Washington. 14-7,
at Seattle. It was the seventh
straight conquest without defeat
for the Californians.
Illinois, beaten only by Wiscon-
sin, subdued Michigan, Big Ten
co-champion, in a snowstorm at
Ann Arbor, TO. Ohio State Is
ineligible to return to the Coast
under the Conference rule that
permits a team to go to the Rose
Bowl only once in three years.
California has another rugged
obstacle this week in up-and-com-
ing UCLA. winner of it's last three
games. Illinois meets Iowa, 1870
conqueror of Minnesota.
Kentucky a Good Bet.
Unbeaten and united Kentucky
appears a good bet to carry Dixie
banner in the Sugar Bowl against
either SMU or Oklahoma. The
Sooners have been New Orleans
| feature attraction for the last two
years and the sponsors may want
change of scenery. This would
bring in the high-powered Mus
tangs.
It also probably would throw
the Sooners, holders of modern
footballs longest winning streak
into the Cotton or Orange Bowl
most likely the Cotton because
of the strong Southwest pressure
for a return meeting with Texas
Oklahoma squeezed out 14-1a
verdict over Texas in one-haf OF
Dallas big double-header Octo-
Der IA.
Kentucky won its eighth
straight game by upending Flor.
ida, 40-6. The Wildcats. moi
Ipressed all year. play Mississippi
State next. Tennessee. the last
foe of the season, is the only dan
gerous barrier left.
Oklahoma stretched its string
of victories to 81 bye repelling
Colorado, 27-18, cracking CO.
lnell's winning record of the early
20s.
j Miami, the little Florida giant
killer, is a natural for the Orange
Bowl if it can maintain its un-
beaten-untied pace. The Hurri-
canes play Louisville Friday night
/ Tennessee, a good bowl draw
ing card because 1t has played ir
all the big ones. won its sixth
game In seven starts by beating
North Carolina. 1910. The Vol.
lost an early season decision tt
Mississippi State. Clemson anc
Washington and Lee are othel
strong possibilities for the South.
ern bowls.
j Army repeatedly spurns bow
bids.
] The Western Conference ane
/ Pacific Coast teams are bound X
the Rose Bowl. The Ivy League
doesn't approve Of the post-sea'
J son business, so that would elm.
Innate Princeton, one of the bes