Show 15 i AERIAL t GAME AMAZES WEST COAST L Pass Attack Used Easily By Invaders I B By PAUL AUL IER ZIMMERMAN IAN t Associated Press Sports Writer LOS ANGELES Nov 13 13 WeSt West Western em ern football fans are arc gazing gazin wistfully wistfully fully out over the Sierra Nevada I range and asking themselves If the grid parade had pass passed cd them b by It is a highly personal question for those of or the Pacific seaboard who in yesteryears were accustomed accustomed tomed tamed to boasting of the prowess of ot their teams on the basis of intersectional intersectional inter- inter intersectional sectional success Yet it was a logical inquiry born t of 1935 results Alabama Starts It Until Alabama came out here January January January Jan Jan- uary 1 to make its Rose bowl game I with Stanford look Jook more like Jik in inI infield in- in I field practice on a baseball diamond diat dia dia- dia- dia t E mond western football coaches and most of at the fans had preferred to believe belie that the practice of throw throw- i Lj i- i a football far and wide was hippodrome stuff If It not a myth Even after that game gamt in which the Crimson Tide completed 10 of 13 forward passes there was as asmore more than a sprinkling of doubtS doubt- doubt S ers who ho pointed the finger at Stanford and show cd where the he S Indians never had hael been all any great shucks in the Rose bowl I Meaning Mean Mean- ing that Alabama's success was not so o impressive c So the west started right out this season with its old type of at power football prosaically contending that to mal make e a passing passin game work the rushin rushing game had to devastate the secondary's defense Then came the light fast Illinois eleven coached by Bob e. e The hunt passed Southern California dizzy with laterals and forwards and double laterals When the west re refrained re- re regained gained its football equilibrium it discovered that the had gone back home to lose the next two games to Iowa and Northwestern Good Missionaries But it still wasn't convinced that anyone save the pro leagues could handle the football that way and get awa away With wun it Came southern r Methodist here on Armistice day as f missionaries f t. t S. S The Texans preached a great ser- ser r mon The sturdy University of CalI Cal- Cal j t. at Los Angeles eleven cleven had c beaten benten Stanford Oregon and Oregon Ore- Ore i gon State and had been beaten only by University of California 14 to 2 Y Yes s S. S M M. U. U opened up that S U. U C. C L. L A. A defense by completing completS S lug ing 17 of 29 passes threw laterals lat tat with equal success and had h the Bruins so befuddled that the Mustangs rolled up yards r from froni rushin rushing to win the game 21 1 to 0 0 The TIle passes had pa paved cd the theW W way for the rushin rushing attack 1 The exhibition left a feeling of I amazement and chagrin among the western supporters If It this is the thc type of football the rest of the country is playing said one veteran coast observer lapsing into the baseball idiom our western representative in the Rose bowl will have a tough time getting the other side out out |