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Show : : Utah Grid Champs Are Given High Rating In Trophy Poll Redskins Rate Tenth Place In Mation; Voting Places R. M. C. Champs Just Below the Army; Notre Dame is Given First Place by Big Margin jougais. It might also be figured-: hat Washington State isn't so :;ood, even if It did defeat the Tro- , . ans. In California they are in-1 :lined to throw out the game, but ihc people who wagered a httlo on he Cougars collected just he same. The preliminary balloting does indicate in-dicate that football opinion is divided divid-ed even after the scores haye been idded. Soine Dissent on Irish , Aside from the overwhelming majority by which Notre Dame was ..ccorded first place, the result I .eems a trifle confusing.. Fourteen of tnuse who ycted" ''nought Southern California. better 'han the Irish. , Nine members of ihe jury placed Alabama air&ad of Notre Dame. Of the 228 jury. members, mem-bers, there were three who';de,emed the Cougars the best of the -pack. And Utah won the support otf two voters ov-ir Notrie Dame. Twetny-five members of the jury placed Notre Dame second to their first choice and two' jurymien gave the Notre Damexs snow mojney. In the total vote, however, Notre Dame ct 741 more markers than. Southern South-ern California. : In the trial-by-jury system, almost al-most anything can. happen. By WILLIAM BUAUCliER Prelimin&.ry balloting by the jury that awards the ICrsItine champion-3hip champion-3hip football Uophy, placei Noli'2 Oamc first, wUU 1077 votes; Soiuh-tii Soiuh-tii California second, 336; Alabama Ala-bama third, 308; Washington State curth, 07, and Northwestern fif'h, 81. One of tne first deductions to bej cken from the above results might )e that a great many members of the jury didn't see Northwestern Uay Noire Dame. Southern Cali-ornla Cali-ornla was placed 255 votes above ;he great Evanston team.- It's hard Lo believe, but there it is,, in black and white. One for St. Mary's The tctal of votes cast was ."052. 3t. Mary's, California, got exactly one vote, a third place, and was tied for 13th place in the list of rankings rank-ings by Michigan, Tennessee and Texas. Fordham and Tulane each s;ot two. Above these were Western Maryland, Dartmouth, Colgate, Army and Utah. The Army,. a team that went through a hard sicheduie with only a 7 tcG defeat at th- hands of Notre Dame, was rankou seventh, sandwiched in between Utah and Colgate. It looks like just another job for Einstein. Alabama was placed third, between be-tween Southern California and Washington State. Southern California Cali-fornia was second and Washington State was fourth, even though the boys from the north beat the Trojans. Tro-jans. On thv: basis or the voting, it might be figured lhat Alabama will win the Rose Bowl game from the |