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Smoke Rings It’s Bowl Day K « « Ann TENNESSEE RATES By SAM RAGAN Stanford Favored To Beat Nebraska FAVORITE IN TILT -A- --■--Today __ Today is bowl day for ten select football teams through- hundred thousand fans, who To See Sugar Bowl Rams To Clash out the country and for several 73,000 Maroons Are Favorites 90,000 WILL SEE Aggies, the that are talked Unbeat- have paid a pretty penny to watch games Game Between Two months out of the year. about at least eight en Teams Of The Nation In Cotton Bowl s T ROSE BOWL TILT And there will be plenty to talk about today, after it Over Georgetown oday Today and has died down in all ■ ■1 ■ 1 — ■ 1 r ..... all over and the shouting mourning KREEGER Rain Descends On But to take BY MORTIMER Seen In Huskers Are Out Dallas, the stadiums where these annual gridiron classics are Open, High Scoring Crusading News Names NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 31—(A>)— BOWL GAMES DATA Sporting Aggies Remain Favored The 1940 football season is going to get a good send- Orange Bowl Game; Both To Beat Shaughnessy’s place. ’Twas the night before New Year’s Feller No. 1 To Take Fordham off into the of history today. Teams In Peak Condition Dec. 31.—(>P)— Famed T-Formation Player pages _ and there was a distinct belief NEW YORK, The Top Game The lineup for tomorrow’s foot- but our nomi- among the half-million residents ST. LOUIS. Dec. 31.— (fP> — You might disagree, ball games with starting times by felix r. Mcknight visitors in BY LARRY ROLLINS By ROBERT MYERS Cleveland Pitcher Bob nation for the top bowl game of the and almost 50,000 Sugar (Eastern Standard), probable Feller, Dec. 1.— MV-The PASADENA, Calif., Dec. 31.—(iP) who the season with a DALLAS, Tex., Dec. 31.—(A>!— day is the Sugar Bowl tilt between ATHLETIC CLEANUP Bowl town that Tennessee’s Vols MIAMI, Fla., weather, attendance and staf- opened the bowl football squads —The hopes and dreams of two fine- no-hit game against the White wet weather muscled the Tennessee Volunteers and would beat Boston college’s Eagles Orange fers: Dreary, in snapped through final dress re- ly matched football teams and thous- Sox and ended up with 27 vic- Boston College Eagles. tomorrow in a football game filled Game and participants—Rose on the Cotton bowl classic tonight AT MEET hearsals on the scene of battle to- and upon thousand of loyal follow- tories, today was named base- These two teams are undefeated STARTED with all the tricks two master Bowl, (Stanford vs. Nebraska; grid as the hour 1 in 1940 the and the weatherman predicted that versa- day and their coaches pronounced ers mounted tonight ball’s No. player by they are powerful, strong and could out of a head- time, 5:15 p. m.; weather, fair; magicians pull near for the clash between Ne- News. Fordham and the Texas the them in peak condition for the Bob drew Sporting Aggies tile and are ranked among top Fireworks On College Profes- guard. attendance, 90,000; staffers, New Year’s braska and Stanford in the 26th con- The national baseball weekly nation. Most fans ninth day game. and Russell Newland. two, of the nation’s top once-beaten throughout the The setup was this: Meyers in the sionalism Pops At Final Unbeaten but once tied Missis- secutive post season classic newspaper, which honors the top- we’ve talked to seem to prafer this The two teams Game and participants—Sugar teams, would have the same set- highest scoring Rose Bowl. stars each year, selected sippi State remained an 8-5 fa- vs. Boston Col- flight as the No. 1 of the day. Session Of Coaches in the both and Bowl, (Tennesse ting at game-time tomorrow. game country, primed was The of the vorite although Georgetown had 2:15 weather, Fair weather promised. William B. McKechnie The Rose Bowl fracas between \ raring to go, each with an attack lege) ; time, p. m.; Rain fell in a light drizzle. The _ its turf a little soggy Cincinnati Reds as the leading No. plenty of supporters who pointed attendance 73,000; staf- big stadium, Stanford and Nebraska gets our strong in all departments, and cloudy; official forecast for tomorrow was Dec. 31—W— Al- to the record of one from recent rains, was ready to re- manager in the major leagues for and this NEW YORK, drilled in Hoyas’ only fers, YVhitney Martin and Mor- occasional 2 ranking in bowl games each known to be many full house—some- the second time. rain, mostly cloudy and everyone tried to keep it a defeat in three years. ceive its annual a honey. though never seen on timer Kreeger. one really is proverbial plays seldom or the won the unsettled. for some reason or other, With weather—there was a thing like 90,000 persons. McKechnie honor In if's tied in secret good Game and participants—(Cot- There are a lot of up gridiron. determined Cornhusk- 1937 when he was of Boston On the eve of the game the the heads of college athletics in promise of warmth and vs. Texas Nebraska’s pilot Ag- To witness this 73,000 75-degree ton Bowl, (Fordham this one. struggle, ers want to win this game more than of the National league. gies reported what could be a cas- this country whipped out the “big the possibility of an occasional time, 2:15 p. m.; That, game between Mississippi spectators have long since bought Aggies); of and took several steps shower — all of the bowl’s 34,000 attend- ary other. The university is winding The other selections were: ualty catastrophic proportions— stick’’ today the stadium. weather, partly cloudy; State and Georgetown in the Orange up all space in Tuiane celebration of 50 execu- illness of guard Marshall designed to clean up seats were certain to be occupied. Felix Me- up a year long Major leagues: leading Foch * to call. apparently m. ance, 45,500; staffers, Bowl is about the toughest The game will start at 1:15 p. Walter 0. own- Robnett, blond terror of : the par- Experts an and years of football. tive, Briggs, Sr., the stout collegiate sports picture, more of predicted open Knight. It’s what call a natural and (CST) after an hour or Cinderella team of er and of the American line that rates as the many football. possibly a high-scoring game, with s— Stanford, the president nation’s best, there’ll be ticularly featured the maneu- Game and participant 4 for the art of football pageantry by the undefeated champions of league championship Detroit defensively. waited until this final day Mississippi State matching its pow- Orange Bowl—(Georgetown vs. West, in Miami today to satisfy They vering of the Bengal guards, drill and still Tigers. Coach Homer enough of the er and passing Miss 2 m. the Pacific Coast conference Norton said that of the three-day convention team of beautiful school against George- State); time, p. the most avid. composed town’s attend- favored to triumph, goes into a gol- Robnett “had a bad night and lost National Collegiate Athletic asso- from deception. weather, partly cloudy; The Fordham-Texas A. & M. Cot- girls Orange, Texas. den celebration at mid- many hours of and the American Football The Maroons, using i;he Tennes- ance, 32,000; staffers, Larry Rol- anniversary sleep, but unless he turn a sur- ciation Local establishments I ,toh Bowl game may Up betting see night tonight. develops fever and is Coaches association to start pop- system that calls for faultless lins and John Wilds. much worse, it hardly will. It takes were asking Tennessee backers to record bears one 'CATS CONTINUE he will prise but when execution of plays, promised a ver- Game and The Husker 1940 start the game.” ping the fireworks, but they on the chance participants—Sun ! 5 with us. lay down five dollars smirch. fell before mighty If Robnett fourth ranking was satile attack led by the ‘“J-boys,” Teachers vs. They falls out, Leon Rahn, and finally did, the impression of but Bostonians Bowl—(Temple U, Then follows the Sun Bowl winning two, Minnesota, but went on to defeat In- a senior a of con- Harvey Johnson and Billy Jeffer- Western Reserve); time, 4 p. m.; rowdy who has played will be created that shake-up five will win nine if their DRILLS FOR GAME Bowl games that wagering son. Both run attend- diana, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, enough to will irgineapple siderable proportion was promis- and pass equally weather, partly cloudy; letter, start. mainly students, alumni team comes through. Iowa, Pittsburgh, Iowa State and Word ::i£ttended by the efforts of all con- well but won’t be in the game at ance, 15,000; staffers, John K. seeped out of another de- the schools. ed, despite A prediction of occasional show- their ninth ■; tand townspeople of the the same time since each Ward. Kansas State and capture About 25 Out For Prac- velopment, however, that cerned to knock down implica- ers of the plays Boys might won’t be many who will travel slightly dampened hopes the Big Six conference title in 13 years offset Robnett’s "There tion. tailback position. Game and participants—East- possible absence. Bostons who depend more upon tice For Tilt With Fay- a thousand miles to see either. Team balance, has YY'est at San Francisco; time, 5 of play. Coach Norton admitted that While but no action, stilt however, big we issued our talk, passes than do the Southerners.