W In, Lose, Or Draw Michigan Influence Still Felt in Bowl Selection

totting JHaf Jlp0f Is Influence Still Felt in Bowl Selection 1948—A—19** Michigan Washington, D. C., Tuesday, November 23, Defeat Wolverines Michigan Still on Top or by w in, Lose, Draw As Grid Poll By FRANCIS STANN Hurt Oregon's Hopes; Brings The Local Coach—Who Else But Bo? Politics Is Hinted Few Radical Changes and They are beginning to pass out the bouquets loving cups the Associated Press • y tht Associated Press •y for 1948 and in our town it's comparatively simple and superlatives Michigan rules the roost in college star to stick on a PASADENA, Calif., Nov. 23.— when it comes to finding a coach and player football for the third straight week "Coach of the Year’’ except Michigan's football power appar- pedestal. Who else could be the local by a comfortable margin in the John H. <Bo> Rowland of George Washington? ently still hovers over the Rose next-to-last Associated Press poll of And who else the No. 1 local player except Row- Bowl. the 1948 season. Davis? With 105 of 190 first votes, land's home-grown freshman, Andy Such was one line of thought to- place Davis the clincher on the Wolverines polled 1,726 points Rowland and put as the fashioned day, newly lineup over the idle run- week end when G. W. for a lead of 103 their nominations last for the annual New Year’s Day nerup, Notre Dame. Michigan licked Georgetown, a two-touchdown favorite, for battle was discussed. finished its season Saturday by the first time in 58 years. The slow-talking, It'll be California of the Pacific downing Ohio State, 13-3, while little Rowland w'on four games quick-thinking Coast Conference against North- Notre Dame still has two more a season in which he wasn't supposed during western ol the Big Nine. games to play. he came to were few radical to win at all. And as for Davis, up Conference faculty athletic rep- There changes week the final game and met the Georgetown lad, Billy resentatives, by secret telegraphic in the top 10 after a formful being Conn, w’hom the Hoyas were calling better, and ballot, voted California into the end, the only startling drop the Penn State's tumble from 6th to Andy was undeniably the star of the show. Big Bowl—for fifth time. 18th Who would have thought, 10 weeks ago, Oregon, tied with California if place. conference lost out—un- Army again held third place, al- that Rowland and Davis and, in fact, the whole standings, beaten in conference play, bat de- though the Cadets were idle await- Franeti Stmnn. G. W. team would wind up as the toast of the feated In the battle of the ballots. ing Saturday's finale with Navy, but were to be Row- town? Two and a half monhts ago they pitied. That's where the Michigan in- North Carolina moved into fourth a land was starting his first season in a job which his predecessor fluence may have exerted itself. place, displacing California, by Duke. The and others before him had voluntarily given up as hopeless. G. W. The Michigans, by Big Nine rules, 20-0 decision over Dame-Army-Cali- was horrible in 1947, beating only the doormat team which is the were barred from appearing twice Michigan-Notre fornia had held true for two Merchant Marine Academy at King's Point, N. Y., and the best of in succession in the Rose Bowl, lineup where last New straight weeks. Skip Stahley's squad of last year—Carl Butkus and Joe Wapinsky Year's Day they adroitly massacred Southern Cali- Northwestern Rated Seventh. —were gone. fornia's Trojans, 49-0. California Bears, named the G. W.s schedule was the toughest and its facilities the worst The Defeat Remembered. Rose Bowl team against of the so-called ‘Big Three”—Maryland, Georgetown and George Western Last twice-beaten Northwestern, were didn't a bell at he was October 2, less adroitly, per- Washington. Ten weeks ago Davis ring all; New Year haps, they blanked Oregon, 14-0. ranked fifth. Their Day substitute fullback. Illinois, Theoretically, the faculty minds opponents wTho walloped 20-7, clung to seventh place, one step He Beat aren't supposed to dwell on non- Rowland Improved; Virginia conference results. below Oklahoma. such a sentiment Oklahoma team's smashing All the world loves an underdog. Perhaps But, taking not a thing away from The Kansas boosted the distorts the picture. Certainly Maryland, which swamped G. W. Pappy Waldorf's good-looking Bears, 60-7 romp over to sixth — felicitations on battle at Alexandria George Washington Sooners from eighth place. and won 7 games, is the best of the local teams, with G W. ranking it is barely possible that one or more CONGRATULATIONS, AGAIN Additional ing gridiron between. Schools. Left to Coach Paul Southern Methodist also advanced second and third. But still, how' can the "Coach-of-the- of the faculty eyes paused Uncon- his 79th milestone were offered at the Touchdown Club and Washington-Lee High right: Georgetown reaching was ranked over W. two S. M. U. can Davis be sciously that October 2 occur- to Clark Griffith of the whose and Capt, Potts of G. High, Griffith, Co-Capts. places. Year'' award be taken from Bo Rowland? And how luncheon yesterday Prexy Nats, Mackey Teddy over rence. of W.-L. eighth after a 13-6 victory as was celebrated at another last Saturday. Pic- Biff Johnson and Mike Lloyd and Coach Harry Deming overlooked the “Plaver-of-the-Year"? birthday party came Clemson, The actual vote remains a Baylor. Then nintn, coach G. Oklahoma deep tured in addition to the venerable baseball boss are some When Rowland signed to W., leaving City here, as it was last week, and Oregon, secret; open to speculation, but —Star Staff Photo. wfhere he won 17 of 21 he walked smack into one of those who will in the annual Thanksgiving Day morn- its with a University games, never, according to Commissioner figure which finished campaign of the most rugged schedules in the Colonial's history. They had Victor O. Schmidt, to be answered. 10-0 nod over Oregon State. Oregon from 13th to 10th, becom- upped it from 9 to 10 games and had dropped King's Point, Wayne Even the count, he said, might put advanced Bowls the new member in the and Washington & Lee in favor of Kansas, Maryland, Lafayette, some of the conference brothers “on Hack Wilson, Former G. W. Coach Paid High Tribute Cotton, Orange ing only The Citadel and Duke. He had 17 days in w'hich to practice for the spot.” top 10. Vanderbilt. No. 15, and William Wake Forest, which properly considered G. W. a breather. Perish the thought, but some said confer- a Mentor at TD S. M. U. and Mary, No. 20. were the only Bo have made a sensational debut by upsetting Wake skeptics they thought Home Run Dies Party Seek Carolina; might By Hoy 20 as Cornell King, newcomers in the ence might have said. “We top Davis is the sort of who looks politics figured, hit a new high at on defense.” Hagerty Forest had he known that Andy guy Sportsmanship and Tech dropped out. and California outmaneuvered Ore- the Touchdown Club's luncheon found that out Saturday and I want Georgia ordinary in practice but who is infinitely better under pressure, i Of the first 20, six teams already gon in the long, lost week end. when Jack Hagerty. to repeat it now.” To Name Foe Davis sat on the bench while a more impressive guy in In Baltimore yesterday Today have finished their seasons. practices How did Stanford, Oregon State. Hospital coach Max George Wash- regular Georgetown University's head Farrington, the Associated Press ran the team. G. W. blew a of scoring chances and, too fh» Assoeioted Pr«s By They are Michigan, California, couple U. C. L. A.. Washington, U. S. C. By of football, paid high tribute to ington University's director of ath- to — R Nov. 23 —The odds to- Northwestern, Minnesota late, Rowland switched Davis. and Washington State vote? How BALTIMORE, Nov. 23 Lewis John H. "Bo" Rowland, coach of letics who was G. W.'s spokesman DALLAS. Oregon, favor Southern and Ohio State. G. W. had little in the way of material. None of Rowland's about little Idaho and Montana, iHack' Wilson, who held the Na- the George Washington University ip the absence of Rowland, paid day appeared to and North Carolina in Stil! stars could make third-string at Notre Dame or at Army. But what who supposedly dislike California tional League home run record, died Colonials who upset the Hovas. 13 tribute to the hard, but clean, play Methodist Ranking Teams Playing. California won’t 'em in today. the Cotton Bowl. Notre Dame back into action they lacked in ability they made up in teamwork and spirit. The because play City Hospital to 7, at Griffith Stadium Saturday, of the teams. gets (and let them in on a fat He was taken to the late in behalf and They also Colonials beat V. P.I. for the first time since 1910. They lost to get gate hospital after 58 years. "I cannot say enough There was nothing official against Washington. once in a while*? Your guess is as yesterday when he became ill and of a team that the name of the team being have to play Southern California V. M. I. but attracted attention w-hen scored an "It has been suggested,” Hagerty gallant Georgetown visiting they they amazing doctors he died of internal on the good as the next.

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