Show u R CE THIS HIS has been an odd and un- un season in college football football football foot- foot ball outside of Army and Notre Dame but its greatest mystery moves in the direction direction direction tion of the Rose Bowl the Pacific Coast conference z and the Big Nine I Here we have something someI something some- some t thing that passes all understanding It was p perhaps a trifle V foolish in the first place to think that yap tw 1 the Bi Big Nine would 1 pass up the Grantland Rice or more It U could collect collect col- col lect from the coming coming coming com com- ing Rose Bowl game and give Army its proper chance to meet the wishes of both UCLA Southern California California Califor- Califor nia the entire west coast and practically practically practically per cent of this country's football lovers The Big Nines Nine's only interest was in This can be understood In a great game that is getting to tobe tobe tobe be more and more commercial with sportsmanship now v a mere sideline The Big Nine Is not alone in this tills commercial angle although it is one of ot the leaders But what we cant can't understand is how v the Pacific Coast conference suddenly turned and passed over the Rose Bowl to Big Nine control For many years the theRose theRose theRose Rose Bowl delegation has been trying tryIng trying try try- ing to get the Big Nine in line A Sudden Change b bYear Year after year the Big Nine or orthe orthe orthe the Big Ten has handed the Pacific Coast conference the dead eye and the frozen hand It has completely ignored the Far West Apparently Apparent Apparent- ly the Big Nine awaking suddenly to revenue which had been going to southern teams most of them also commercialized had a startling change of at heart The Big Nine has decided to shut off this revenue from southern teams in the honest belief beliet that such teams were using this important cash to take care of players many of them from the Midwest But the mystery is this why this why should the Pacific Coast conference suddenly decide to turn over the running running running run run- ning of or the Rose Bowl to the Big Nine after so many years cars of or backhanded backhanded backhanded back back- handed action Why should the strong Pacific Coast turn yellow Every Everyone one who follows football knows that Army should have been the only possible selection selection-a a great team playing its final game keen to go the go-the the team both UCLA and Southern California wanted With this chance to regain its bowl leadership why should the Pacific Coast conference suddenly decide to tomake tomake tomake make this Just another intersectional intersectional intersectional game secondary once more to the Sugar Bowl as far as class and general interest go The Major ajor illy Mystery ster But tF is Isn't the most baffling point of the year five-year arrangement In the future the Pacific Coast conference conference conference con con- ference will enter its Far West ch champion The Big Nine will play its champion the first year but if it this champion repeats another team will be named This may be the second second sec sec- ond and or third Big Nine entry It wont won't be a champion who repeats And later on the Big Nine will select the opponent to face the Pacific Coast conference champion from champion from the Midwest Midwest Midwest Mid Mid- west or from the East East or or from anywhere anywhere any any- anywhere where else This gives the Big Nine control of the Rose Bowl game a game the Pa Pacific Coast conference started and developed and placed on top The Big Nine hostile to the South's system of paying or recruiting recruiting recruiting recruit recruit- ing football players hostile to the South's financial benefit from bowl games now becomes the South's greatest greate t benefactor From now note on the Sugar Bowl the Cotton Bowl Bowland Bowland Bowland and the Orange Bowl will benefit considerably from the recent Rose Bowl action The Biggest Thrills This has been a sporting season now moving swiftly into ancient history history history his his- tory that has known more than its share of ups and downs of dull spots and of thrills of brilliancy and second second second sec sec- ond rate effort eUort But it still has given us sport thrills that will hang on in memory A few of these in the order of at their appearance were Assaults Assault's great stretch run in the Kentucky Derby the opening shot for the Triple Crown Two others came in the solitary but solid punch that Tami Tanu Mauriello threw at Joe Louis in the first few seconds of ot their meeting and the melodramatic melee between def defending de- de f fending champion Tony Zale and challenger Rocky Graziano in their middleweight brawl a super production production production tion in its fashion Then there was the final game of at the last world series where in the I closing two innings of the seventh I contest the Cardinals and the Red Sox with slim sUm Harry Brecheen I called on for the third stand put on a show that came near tearing the human pulse out by the roots The two final thrills belonged to the last two football games I saw The Pennsylvania-Cornell Pennsylvania contest and the Navy Army-Navy game In each I case the underdog given from 25 to 30 points the worst of it battered and beaten came from far back to steal the show |