Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-11-14
WIN, LOSE OR
6NAV BY FRANCIS sTANN
Adding Insult to Injury


they must be wondering what of their football teams
must do to gain national recognition The Tigers you
may know unbeaten and united in games. Yet
in the latest Associated Press poll Princeton better
than 10Th
And to add insult to injury it up Princeton
Yale this Saturday at New Haven very likely the Ivy
League title will be resolved But Princeton 2pont
underdog according to the gamblers although the Tigers
had raped Colgate 1921 whereas Yale lost to Colgate in
14-6 battle
AS the Associated Press poll of sportswrers
and SportScaSerS smacks of of downratng the Ivy
League True the Ives group perhaps lack the strength
Of such the Southeastern Conference and Big Ten
but it isn't touch football they play Many time
jaded traveller to all fronts has been thrilled
by Ivy League clashes and there when
an Ivy would move off its block and beat of those
big" teams everybody talks about so much
s, ~
THAT GOOD OLD prove-nothing APP poll no longer
had Oklahoma at the top this week The No team in the
Nation The voters apparently felt that Ternes
sees 60 victory Georgia Tech achieve
ment than oklahoma's 44-O romp last Saturday over
who was it? Iowa State
This poll business is in the nature a national disease
College kids and old grads and coaches who should
know better set store by it. Take Oklahoma instance
The Sooners picked No before the started
and stayed there they rolled up lat points to
their first three gamesNorh Carolina Kansas State
Texas Then Michigan State muscled in ahead of them
the strength of 47 rout of Notre while Oklahoma
was beating Kansas, S4-12 The following week Michigan
State was dumped by Illinois and the Sooners trounced
But when the ballots cast in the cold light of last
Monday morning the voters apparently began
Oklahoma after ALL hasn't been beating much class Oh
there were plenty of rStplace votes the Sooners
with Notre Dame losing its fifth in to Pitt and plainly
patsy for all big timers lot of enthusiasm Oklahoma
lost
Yet in the backs Of the minds of many voters there
was one thought Oklahoma plays lot Of soes but when
the chips are down in bowl games as those in Miami
with Maryland, the Sooners do all right
1t was nice to see that George Washington with six
wins one loss and tie ranked No l8 But one be-
gins to wonder anew how West Virginia. which handled
CIV with ease, isn't ranked at all.
THERE'S BEEN DEAL of speculation as to bowl mar
riages, but the pundits who had Texas A&M playing
Syracuse in the Cotton Bowl will have to revise their
opinions in the light of the NCAA Councils refusal yester
day to suspend prooaons against the Aggies and Miami
that expire next year.
It's now wde-open for the Southwest Conference
perrin IN th Dallas game and the Syracuse guess could be
wrong TOO IN TACT Syracuse spokesman told New
reporters after his teams 420 win Holy last
week that Tennessee 60 win Georgia Tech closed
ne door on us as far bowl games are concerned Gator
Bowl? We wouldn't be interested"
AS REGARDS THE COTTON BOWL. one Of the hast a..
navy the Texas folks want The Cotton Bowl scouts were
disappointed but not entirely discouraged when NAVY
DUKE wound up In IT tie They felt that Navy was the
better team and all that for the Middes tn heat
virginia and, OF course win the Army game
Mayor at least some of the brass hats-wants bowl
sae' nut TINS time only the Cotton This evident in
te spring when ranking land non-coachng) official said
In effect '
Wed have gone to the Cotton Bowl last year il we
hadn't lost to Army Wen go this year if we don't lose
to Army" 49,
pretty good Navy team is hot article. as Sugar
Bowers discovered In 1854 the Mddies were doing
tea we losing only TO Pitt by 2i9 and beating all Others
Including Army by 1920
view orleans ioks never had 1t good Nays coach
Eddie Erdelatz purely wonderful at his press con-
ference atnoueh some felt he whsting in the dark
But Navy won, 2l-0 and 1t a good game despite
tne score That night the city celebrated
Iney now want Navy in the Cotton Bowl Navy
wants the Cotton Bowl and that's how It is