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  Evening star, December 1, 1939, page 57 (results column)

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  Tulane, 1rojjans Appear on Way To Rich Ti|ts Texas Ags, Tennessee Held Qualified by Big Victories AsoO~idtcd 1900 oHoA eS “AAN’ NEW YORK, Dec. Half filled now, a couple of the football bowls are going to be tanked right up to the brim before the week is over II the same form that held good in yesterdays juicy late Thanksgiving Day menu doesn’t spoil before Saturday. The Texas Aggies completed an undefeated season of 10 games with a 300 conquest of their old rivals, the University of Texas Longhorns, and the mighty Tennessee Volunteers Gagged the Kentucky Wildcats, 1910, to extend their undefeated and unscored-upon string right up to the final fray of the season. These developments, as half the country observed the calendar hollday, gave the two winners every thing they needed to get to the Rose and Sugar Bowls except the railroad tickets. Until they get them, f1guralively at least, nobody will know just which will go where, but the best brains are booming Tennessee for Pasadena and the Aggies for New Orleans come New Year Day. Tulane-U. S. c. Favored. The other halves of the casts in these two spectacles are likely to be filled to the satisfaction OF the public tomorrow when Southern California attempts to hurdle a So so Washington eleven and Tulane tackles its most bitter foe, Louisiana State. Providing U. S. c. and Tulane triumph, their assignments for next New Year Day already are laid out for them. The Trajans will be hosts in the Rose Bowl and the Green Wave will receive at the Sugar Bowl There is no reason to believe that either will miss their parties. While attention already has turned to the gridiron’s post-season activities. there still are some at tractive morsels of the regular program remaining. The prospective Rose Bowl rivals have games pending on December 9. Southern Cal. against U. c. L. A. and tennessee against Auburn. Bigg Battles i’m East. 8 The Arny-Navy vaudeville performance is booked for Philadelphia’s Municipal Stadium tomorrow with more than 100000 patrons expected. In New York there’ll be Stanford and Dartmouth and N. Y. U. against Fordham. In Boston the fans will have Boston College and Holy Cross in one of the fiercest of fuedS. On other sectional fronts the rambling wreck of Georgia Tech, tied for the Southeastern Confer ence title, will scrap with Georgia; undefeated Duquesne bumps into Detroit and Southern Methodist and Texas Christian and Baylor and Rice collide. Yesterdays firing cost Rutgers its first defeat as the Brown Bears scored twice in the final period for a 1870 decision. One conference championship was settled as Colorado captured a wild 27–⁠17 fracas from Denver in the Rocky Mountains Big Seven. ‘Bama Flattens Vandy. Alabamas sloW-starting steam roller f1attened Vanderbilt $50 once-beaten North Carolina wal loped Virginia 1870 and Florida escaped with a TT tie against Auburn when the game ended with the Tigers on the 2-yard line. Little San Jose State preserved its place among the Nations undefeated and united leaders with a 1910 victory over Drake in one of the Pacific Coasts several night games. Undefeated. but often tied U. c. L. A. finished strong for “a decision over Washington State in another.

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Colorado leads 21–⁠14–⁠4 in 39 meetings, counting the seven since this game.