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Vols Badly Beaten by Superior Team, Says Neyland After Trojan Triumph HOLIDAY STUFFING —By JIM BERRYMAN or Texas Ags Plan I v v \\\ \—r.^.nmumiimnniiiii.11 miii.i -.. Schindler Hero Win.^ Lose Draw * By FRANCIS E. STAN. Game A Few Bowl Notes That Weren't Aired Trojan Of 6th U. S. C. DOC ! e BOWLS OF THAT Southern California, 14; Tennessee, 0—There was a fellow in Chicago J % who must have spent a tough New Year Day in front of his radio. We Rich stuff did it—uh mean To Aid Coach Ernie of Finns Nevers the professional Chicago Cardinals. Mr. HUH ! -AN' you THINK HE Win in Bowl Nevers drafted Tennessee's George Cafego to team up with Marshall Gold- ^ Frank OUGHTA HAVE BASKETBALL berg. Patrick. Ki Aldrich and all of the Cards’ other All-Americas Face to and credence was Fight yesterday given the theory that Cafego was doomed the Keep AN' HOCKEy TWICE A WEEK! His Generalship Cuts day he had to wear a steel brace on his bad knee. Coach Norton After WHAT? OH! GIVE HIM A GOOD Cafego played, of course, but intermittently and not so well, and it Tennessee's Great follows that Tennessee's cause was hurt. Of it have been Tulane may that during Seating DOSE OF FLORIDA GOLF 23-Game the season the Vols' too rural String regular made many stops in Dixie — Bv felix r. TOO Mercer, Sewanee, North Carolina State, The Citadel and Chattanooga. Mcknight, Associated Press Sports Writer. OKAV\J: By RUSSELL NEWLAND. Anyway, over the air waves it never sounded like Tennessee's game. ^AN'RACING Associated Press Sports Writer. NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 2—Rulers PASADENA, Calif., Jan. 2.—Foot- Without a brace of college football after its bold Kimbrough Played ball’s Gibraltar was a mass of Sugar Bowl triumph over Tulane, Texts Aggies. 14; Tulane, 13—There was another suspicion partially crumbled ruins today—the team mighty Texas A. and M. today pon- confirmed in this Bowl affair. the a lot football that couldn’t be beaten met Sugar During year of peo- dered the thought of playing South- up yes- went around and terday with the team that wouldn’t ple called the Texans the best football team out of the ern California, Rose Bowl kings, in be beaten. National League, although there also is a recollection of Dr. Jock Suther- a post-season game for the Finnish Southern California was the toast land calling Tennessee the best, pro, semipro, or amateur. The Aggies relief fund. of the Rose Bowl; Tennessee a new carried no unscored-upon record into the Sugar Bowl, but they were un- Over a banquet table celebration jucniuci ui me xusxxxg team uxxgauc beaten and the soft of the 14-13 defeat of Tulane's Green they skipped spots. And, of course, there was nothing and shorn of distinction that began with the of Wave, Coach Homer Norton, a mild wrong knee big John Kimbrough. accumulating back in the season of man threatened only a season age From the way the fellow at the microphone put it, one gathered the 1937 with dismissal in the middle of a impression that Mr Kimbrough must have come close to the The 14-to-0 score deciding the pretty being disappointing year, shook oft the All-Bowl back. He was on a 25th Rose Bowl classic, witnessed by prize terrific defense and better than green back slaps admitted he had heard a jammed-in crowd of 92,000, was hand at carrying the ball and holding his team together against a Tulane talk of a post-season game with the the most conclusive since Pittsburgh outfit whose 14-14 tie with North Carolina had been the only blot on the Rose Bowl winners and commented: won from here in we Washington 1937, record. also has been drafted for next ... the "What do think nf it? WpII Kimbrough year by Aggies 21 to 0. again. we love to play football!” Willing to Consider It. Tennessee staked one of the Na- The Clemsons Broke In a New Back Officials of A. and M.. members of tion's greatest gridiron reputations in the game. Defeat called a halt Clemson, 6; Boston College, 3 —The Tigers from Carolina started the the Athletic Council and others were sounded and all to a consecutive victory record of 23 New Year in a new back out, concurred in by breaking named Charley Timmons. This hooked two full the belief that such a game was a together through Cotton Bowl battle marked the last college game for Banks McFadden, seasons rather remote possibility, but indi- and part of a third. Until the Clemson Thin Man, and what Timmons did 127 on 27 the (gain yards cated that it would be considered Southern California Trojan rushes and score the touchdown must have warmed the cockles of the machine rolled to touchdown Reports in this football-mad city power hearts of the with the thick drawls. in the second Tennessee's boys big, were that the game would be played period. line had 15 McFadden played, all right, but outside of averaging 42 6 yards per in Los Angeles "about January 15,” goal not been crossed in encounters—10 last vear and 5 in punt, gaining 44 yards on four rushes of his own and directing the with an expected million-dollar gate 1933. Clemson defense he didn't distinguish himself. to go to Finland for relief purposes. The Clemsons further added to the general post-season confusion in To Norton, however, the most im- Trojans Great, Neyland Says. was a with the South. Until this year Tennessee supposedly was the class of Dixie. portant thing meeting The best backfield man in the the Athletic Council of Texas A and Tennessee of the nut ruianes i-o win over oiemson eariy in me season ana 115 ganje string played parts M scheduled in a few days. Then game a knee against Texas A. and M yesterday are strong claims. Then. too. there handicapped by injury. the man who was destined for the Whether a George “Bad News” Is Georgia Tech. And you can't laugh off Duke, which showed admirable junk heap only a few months back Cafego in top physical condition restraint and kept its football fellows home. is expected to demand a five-year would have staved off the Trojan East-West Game Makes Redskins Look Good contract with certain changes in the yard-gaining landslide was a matter athletic setup. Df debate among grandstand master- Georgia Tech, 21; Missouri, 7. Two football teams which, pretty good Kimbrough Displays Greatness. minds next to the Texas Aggies and Tulane, must have put on the best show. A prepared statement issued Yesterday the Aggies great full- by This was the Orange Bowl program. It didn't mean anything much Maj. Bob Neyland. Tennessee coach, back, John Alec Kimbrough, 210- because the had the taste to a 14-17 decision seemed to the sentiments of Engineers poor drop to pound all-America performer, storm- express Notre Dame in the season and a 6-7 tilt to Duke while most of the experts. opener the ed the Sugar Bowl with a classic It said: “We were beaten Missouris, in an unguarded early moment, blew a game to Ohio State. running exhibition before 73,000 fans badly by a superior team. I want to con- Still as we said, it sounded like good entertainment over the air and —largest sports crowd in the his- gratulate Howard Jones and his here were two good teams. Between them had won 11 tory nf the Southland—to crush a pretty they straight staff for the fine team have great Tulane team that couldn't they games. including decisions over Alabama, Oklahoma and Nebraska. turned out.” hold the Haskell (Tex.) hurricane. Prom start to finish Southern Cal- Twice he scored and all afternoon West All-Stars, 28; East All-Stars, 11.—This didn't prove anything.1 ifornia left little doubt as to which he thundered up and down field In either, as far as football is concerned nationally. But here, reailv. was Aft _!_A. <■ side was superior. vv Huuutci) kj 1 liiC glCOLCil Ulic-Ulttll the most worthwhile of all of the New Year shows. The do-re-mi It outdowned and outgainea Ten- grid show ever staged in this Dart of the Athletic Probe Seen Tech's Razzle-Dazzle West's nessee on the and the you see, didn't wind in Georgia Great ground when contributed by 45,000 customers, up any col- ! country. On 26 carries he crashed Kicking checked there took to the air. lege treasuries for the purpose of paying off a stadium trust and replacing i through for 152 yards, or a 5.7-yard Tennessee came to the West Coast graduating halfbacks. It went, lock, stock and barrel above expenses, to average. As Ruler Subduers of Missouri Bringing Rated And in for the first time heralded as a de- Deep in the fourth period, after Passing Rain charity. fensive threat. When the Trojan Tulane had hurried across two rapid It must have made sweet listening for the Redskins, by the way. A bff-tackie plays began clicking the touchdowns that put the Aggies be- School's Greatest fellow named Leroy Zimmerman from San Jose State seemed to be just To Coast Among volunteer line Durst Delore tne roll- hind, 13-7, Kimbrough got his tiring Loop Beat East, 28-11 about the best back on the Western squad and Ed Boell of New York Rv I..4RRV ROT I TVS ca —i.i.