Evening star., 1956-08-29
WIN, LOSE OR
GNAV By FRANCIS srANN
The Prophet Speaks

THEY CAN BEGIN the football now The fore
cast of Mr. Francis Wallace the worlds uninhbted
wizard is contained in the new issue of Golfers.
1t is regrettabe that Mr. Wallace less rum
ming with the herd picking Oklahoma the national
championship instead of choice spectacular But
as Frank modesy points out he has his reputation to
consider.
Last year Golfers prophet correctly named the national
champion Okahomal and fingered the Nations top back
Hopaong Cassady Of Ohio State Three the countrys
first four teams dropped in the right slots the
20 top teams he forecast IA.
This year there will be three unbeaten eams-oklahoma
and Georgia Tech with 100 what Yae?
with 30. Maryland will but Navy won't be in
the top 20.
WHEN THE PROPHET WALLACE has spoken-and
this is his 18th year in the crystal ball rackethere not
much point in dissenting He will brook no arguments
although the of Bellair Ohio leaves himself
out. He calls attention to "a dramatic feature added to
the 1856 may the attempts of the outraged
athletes (some already calling themselves the
baton Boys who cannot to bowl to upset the
packed trunks of those who think they can go :"
This circumstance Wallace comedies could upset "the
careful calculations of your Pgskn Prophet and his 267
A-America helpers" But he writes the doesn't
sound very worried.
Do not make any engagements for the afternoon of
October 27 On that day will be privileged to watch the
TV game of the year" meaning Oklahoma -Notre
This will be one of the two contests the Irish will lose
They will wind up with eighth ranking.
REPLACING Cassidy AS BACK of the year will be
Paul Hornung Notre Danes big heavy duty quarterback
Memory fails when it to Prof. Waaces 1855 neman
OF the year The didn't make it, but undaunted, Frank
picks Jim Parker of Ohio State The coach the year
will be Bobby Dodd of Georgia Tech and let's have
quibbling
Maryland gets one Al-America-Tackle Mike sandusky
but the Prophet is feeling very impartial other school
will have than except Oklahoma which will have
Halfback Tommy Mcdonald and Center Jerry Tubbs
Maryland, with 81 record will be the best team in
the South and probably will play in the Orange Bowl again.
Marse Jim Taum at North Carolina will have
"Taum is rather large for ghost" Wallace remarks
He should take out license however the way he's haunt
ing some of his best friends High the list is his proeg
Tommy Mont, whom he recommended his successor
at Maryland.
Jim left % lettermen there . . What sets up Mont
for the haunt is the fact that he get by Tatum
who surely must have all the lodge secrets"
YALE, ARMY, PITT AND NAVY will rank in that order
in the East and Hofstra in the second flight In the Mid
west t be Ohio State Notre Michigan although
Heidelberg will have 81 record.
A once-famiar figure in these parts, Paul Bryant,
viii field Texas ASM team that will be 9-1 tying TCU
in the Southwest Then will be Utah in the Rocky
Mountain Conference and Stanford S-2) in the Pacific
Coast
More and more Prot. wallaces An-Americas seem to
be running to beef Prime beef however Of the All
America tackles will be Earl Leggett of Louisiana State
63 high and weighing 265 at the age 22 pros don't
hardly build 'em any bigger.
No midget is Parker Of Ohio State guard who also
is 63 He weighs 255 Marylands Sandusky opposite
Der of Leggett, weighs in at 240 pounds.
IF YOU ARE TO BELIEVE in football prophets. Frank
Wallace is to buy. He hits than he and
It's not r=cey true that the professors crystal-gazng
is in his back yard The mans mail to his newspaper
advisors, outgoing and incoming, is voluminous
If he predicts that November II Archie Mcdonald
Of Hedgemore will tumble the 3yard line no stock
in it, On the other hand, don't bet it won't happen An
uncannier Scotsman than wallace is hard to come by