Georgetown at Boston College

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  Evening star, District of Columbia, November 19, 1940, page 17 (results column)

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  Rice Figures Hoyas Cotton or Orange ow|Prospects Hilltop Eleven Packs Class Plus Extreme Interest, He Says NEW YORK. Nov. 10 (NANAD. Rolling into the stretch there still was healthy amount of debris to be cleaned up last week end. Min nesota, Stanford, Boston College, Texas A. and M. and Tennessee on the big-time menu still are rolling along with loud reverberations from the steep drop of Notre Dame and Cornell. When you consider the type of schedules played I should say the better Jobs have been accomplished by Minnesota Texas A. and M. and Stanford in that order. Especially by Minnesota, with the scalpS of Washington, Nebraska, Ohio State, Iowa, Northwestern, Michigan and Purdue already in the Gopher wig wan and only Wisconsin left for clean sweep. Texas A. and M. and Stanford have had their busy days, but neither Tennessee nor Boston Col lege, as strong as they are. has had to tackle any such assignments Yet Id hate TO put up real cash on any other teams in the country against either Boston College or George town. And Tennessee has one of her best teams, capable of facing far stronger opposition. The point is the others named have had better chance to prove their place by the harder road. As the old rhvme GOES “Old King Cole was a merry old soul, And merry old soul was he; He called for his pipe and he called for his bowl” But the bowl call today would have drowned out the old king. The sit uatlon is shaping up rapidly, how ever, barring some untoward Incl dents. Stanford, Aggies Logical Pick. The roundup favors Stanford and Texas A. and M. in the Rose Bowl Tennessee and Boston College in the Sugar Bowl. What about the Orange and the Cotton? There is plenty left-GeorgetoWn, Nebraska. Ford ham. Alabama and Mississippi or Mississippi State, to mention only Few. Georgetown, one point back OF Boston College, certainly can’t be overlooked since the Hoya platoon not only is excellent. but extremely interesting. What happened to Notre Dame? What happened to Cornell? The f1rst answer is that Notre Dame just didn’t have it this season. Saggau and JuzWik are good. but her line was outplayed by both Army and Navy. Rather badly, in each case. Cornell is the harder targle. Rated from two TO three or maybe four touchdoWns above a Dartmouth team that had dropped four games TO F. and M, Columbia, Yale and Princeton, Dartmouth kept the Jump on Cornell all the way. There isn’t even debating the point that if Cornell’s last winning shot came on the fifth and final down, that score goes out. The game belongs to Dartmouth by 3 TO without any further arguing. There are two answers to this game. One is Dartmouth’s rallying spirit against killing odds-the greatest uprising of the year. The other is that Cornell had too MANY seniors who had too much easy success for two years. “SeniorS Get Too Smart” AS Bob Zuppke of Illinois used to tell me, These seniors get too smart to have their brains knocked out” I doubt there was a Dart mouth player two weeks ago who could have made the Cornell team. But Dartmouth outplayed Cornell almost from start to finish. There is part of your answer to what is known as the old college try” 1t still is the vital part of football. Red Blaik and Harry FL Gnger put over a grand job in getting Dartmouth ready for this game-just as Dick Harlow did with Harvard against Pennsylvania and Brown. Football is the toughest game in the world for an official There is penalty waiting to be called on almost every play. Ask any veteran coach. And there is no excuse for the number of mistakes that have been made by excited officials who overlook yardage and forget downs. Some time back one of the best coaches in American football told me he had quit the game because he had won two games by official mistakes and had lost three others by poor decisions of fact and judgment. I’m most close games” he said, ‘‘the ofncials turn in the final score” Grant Knows First Hand. This partly is correct Having worked rs a football Official for more than seven years, I know what the problems are In the swirl of % men. But there have been too many snarls this season. There is no excuse for missing down. We need more officials with the poise of Tom Thorpe, one of the best OF all time. The situation is tittery enough without too much human bitterness and quivering pulses. There have been bad mistakes In many games this season. game winning and game losing mistakes-such as Ohio State, Navy and Notre Dame, Cornell and Dart mouth. You’d be surprised to know how many games off1cials decide on plays that easily could be called either way, especially forward pass interference-such as happened in the Boston College Georgetown game which finished 19 to 18. One official called the play o. K. Another imposed the penalty. And there was the football game. These points are brought out to show you the terrific amount of luck-of raw luck-that belongs to almost every close game. Which =. ~,

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Boston College leads 9–⁠4 in 13 meetings, counting the seven since this game.