Evening star., 1952-12-21
0ddsmakers Also Pick
Georgia Tech, 'Bama;
Texas Game Tossup
BY the Associated Press

adena, Calf, January /.
Preliminary odds on the post
season games showed today the
experts figure Troy's defense good
enough to stop a sharp Badger
attack built around Jim HaluskaI
and Alan Ameche.
Alabama. Georgia Tech. Florida
and Texas are other favorltes tol
win their assignments New Years
Day. although Texas encounter
with Tennessee is rated close to a
tossup.
Nav Be Coast Teams Year.
Here are the early odds:
Rose Bowl-Southern California
Z over Wisconsin.
Sugar Bowl-Georgia Tech u
over Mississippi.
Cotton Bowl-TeXas l over
Tennessee.
Orange Bowl-Alabama 13 over
Syracuse.
Gator Bowl-Florida Z over
Tulsa.
The Pacific Coast hasn't been
able to subdue representative OF
the Big Ten since the present
interconference series was begun
in 1947, but this may be the year.
Lost Only to Notre Dame.
The Trojans. group OF heavy
weights with the speed OF pan
tams won nine straight games
before they were finally upended,
90. by Notre Dame. in the closing
game of the campaign. Wlscon-
sin won six games. lost two ana
tied one in an erratic season.
Southern California has the
added incentive of defending the
hest bowl record in the country
eight victories and two defeats
The Trojans were clobbereo Dy
Michigan, 49-0, in 1948.
The poAseason football show
this year will have the largest
viewing audience in history, with
the four major games all on ma
tional television networks.
The Rose Bowl game at Pasa-
dena. where a crowd OF 100000
is anticipated. will be broadcast
and televised by the National
Broadcasting Co., starting at .
p.m. eastern standard time).
The time differential on the
West Coast gives the parlor fans
chance of tuning in a choice
of the other battles before the
Rose Bowl takes the air.
The Sugar Bowl game at New
Orleans, starting at 2 pm. CEST), ,
will be broadcast and telecast by
the American Broadcasting Co.
The Cotton Bowl at Dallas will
be presented by NBC and the
Orange Bowl at Miami by Colum-
bia Broadcasting System. Both
also will start at 2 pm.
The holiday schedule. beginning
with the North-South game at
Miami on Christmas night. will
draw some 100000 spectators into
the stands. The Rose Bowls 103.-
900 is tops. followed by New Or
leans $4,000. Dallas $4,000,
Miamis $4,000 and jacksonville
$1,000.
The North-South game presents
all-star teams of seniors from
above and below the Mason-Dixon
line in a game starting at 8:15
pm. A crowd of $4,000 is eX-
pected with no radio or television.
$4,000 to See East West Game.
The annual East-West Shrine
game at San Francisco. with a
crowd of $4,000 expected. and the
Blue Gray contest at Montgom-
cry. Ala, anticipating $4,000. are
December q presentations. Also
on the card that day is the Shrimp
Bowl game at Galveston, Tex. be-
tween Sam Houston State and
Northeast Oklahoma State.
The program ends with the
Senior Bowl game at Mobile, Ala.
January 3, involving picked senior
squads.
The bowl schedule has beer
sharply reduced by the collegiate
rule requiring sanction. The Salae
Bowl at Phoenix pits San Diego
Naval Training Center and the
101st Airborne Division. The Tan.
gerine Bowl at Orlando, Fla, send.
East Texas State against Tennes.
see Tech. The Sun Bowl at E
PaSo, Tex. matches Mississippi
Southern and College of the Pa.
cif1c. And that's the works.
Georgia Tech and Tennessee gt
into their engagements with thei
Standout ball carriers on the shelf
Hardeman May Not Play.
Leon Hardeman, Techs mos
effective conveyer, was injured
late in the season and his avail
ability is in question. Tennesse,
will be without Andy Kozar. tn
st. Michael. Pa. fullback who wa
the Vols leading ground game
and scorer.
However, Bob Neyland. Tennes
see coach, said, I'VE won't mis-
Kozar too much. We still hav
Ray Byrd at fullback."
Texas. which won eight game
after early season losses to Notr
Dame and Oklahoma, was beatel
by Tennessee in the Cotton Bow
two years ago. 20-14. Its sligh
edge may be traced to the reveng
motive.
Georgia Tech was one of tn
Nations two major unbeaten an
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was the other) and Mississippi