Evening star., 1953-11-19

Maryland Duke unbeaten in their '-"0" S'~"n
league vote will be in order by the ACC
it's scarcely likely the Orange Bowlers would stand mute
Duke only once-cked, selected unbeaten
Maryland.
tonS No. team pressing Notre Dame Too many people
talking Maryland these days. comparing the Old Liners
with the Irish Obviously Nos and can't play but plenty
OF fuel for the hot stove league would be added Maryland
met Oklahoma whose only defeat by touchdown by
Notre Dame in the seasons opener.
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MARYLAND VS. OKLAHOMA assuming the Terrapns
turn back faS-closing Alabama might we'll bowl
offer challenge.
Time was when the Orange Bowl was considered No.
among the January exravaganzaS Then the Rose Bowl
entered into with the Pacific Coast Conference and the
Big Ten pact embracing unpopular limitations
occasions
The Cotton Bowl has the Southwestern Conference
playing invited team time to time grave doubts
have been whether the Cotton Bowes really
had two of the Nations best snarng at each other More
than the charge eveed at both the Rose and Cot
ton Bowl Committees that by tying themselves with
ference agreements they hurting promotions
These charges less substantiated by
meaningless clashes which overshadowed by the
and Orange Bowls operating Independently conference
tieups AS, for instance January l, 1882
THAT WAS THE Illinois smothered Stanford 40 to T.
in the Rose Bowl and Kentucky beat Texas Christian 20 to
Except for onceted Illinois, all of these teams had been
beaten Genucky four times tied twice. only Illinois
rated among the very best-No A.
On the afternoon Tennessee ranked No. l. los
ing Maryland No. g. in the Sugar Bowl And in Miami
Georgia Tech nosng Baylor II to ID
victory for the independents the Sugar Orange
Their better national
significance.
But the Sugar and Orange Bowls fare so well last
New Years Day. Mississippi surprise winner Maryland
bowed in New Orleans to Georgia Tech the Orange
Bowl folks really caught in the switches They had Ala
bama, but nobody to play the Crimson Tide.
For while they hoped to get Navy They closer
to success than most people know all the the
Secretary of the Navy possibly House. before the
damper In desperation, Syracuse invited.
Alabama, 61 Syracuse g.
build prestige bait the tourist traps with bitter expe
rence behind tem the Orange obtained an alliance
with the Big Seven and the Atlantic Coast Conference
They felt the Big Seven solid and had that
with Maryland Duke North Carolina members
the ACC aiming high they not gambling recklessy
Thus at this early date the Orange Bowl has one-haf
match with possibly the best attraction of all riding the
outcome OF Observation-Disclosures The Rose Bowl people
no great trouble At Pasadena it will either UCIA or
Stanford against Michigan State illinois, other
two major bowls
The Cotton will have Texas, Baylor Rice or Southern
Methodist all beaten in the Southwestern Conference
against Question u And the Sugar Bowl last of the
Dig independents really will have to Scrounge down
yonder in New Orleans they bandyng
OF Texas Tech, West Virginia Alabama sounds
very exciting at this point.
There Is suspicion, stronger since South Cardinals
victory last week. that West Virginia lucky not good
Texas Techs chief weakness is its schedule Texas
State Texas Western New ASM Arizona Tulsa etc.
The one team that could help the Sugar Alabama
the Crimson Tide will have to beat Maryland which about
as large an order be asked.
Even that wouldn't give Alabama an automatic bid The
Tide still has to play of the best teams ever
Only an Alabama sweep of those two would help the
cause of the Sugar Bowl.