Show Fast Attack Of Mustangs Gets Praise By JOE WILLIAMS IS Special to The Telegram I NEW V YORK Dec Dee 2 2 Il If you were asked to name the three ace football football foot foot- ball teams of the year you would have to say Minnesota Princeton and Southern Methodists with Louisiana State Stanford and Duke as alternates I do not profess to be bo a profound football expert but it is easy to recognize a great football team when you see one I 1 didn't get to tose se see Minne Minnesota ola hut but the records speak for themselves and for three successive successive suc sue years the records have spoken with added eloquence Princeton is certainly tops in the cast east True enough h the Ti Tigers ers were not exactly asked to claw their wa way through h a man killing schedule but they did everything that was asked of them most impressively Won Yon Without Ace The Southern Methodists are arc a great team too They had to be great Treat to beat the Texas Christians In n the classic of or the cattle countr country Saturday Saturday and and they beat them without without with with- out the services of ot Harry Shuford the best fullback in that part of the country Shuford was out with torn ligaments Assuming that both Princeton and Minnesota are definitely out o of consideration I wrote before the Saturday game that if the winner winners is s not selected for the Rose Bowl Bow the promoters might just as well close it up To put any other team in n there against Stanford would be bea a low 10 form of football comedy The national public would give it the bird The Me Methodists won and on their performance In this particular game as well vell as their seasons season's record they are eminently equipped to grapple with such an assignment They have a hard bruising g game me meto to o play a against the tho Texas this Saturday If they come through physically intact you can rest assured assured assured as as- you ou will see a great football opponent in action in the Pasadena carnival Just how high the Methodists deserve to rank in the tho national standing is a guess There is only one ono way ay to determine whether team A is better than titan team B Band Band Band and that l Ls Li to put them on the field and let them provide the answer I dont don't see seo how even tho the most expert of the experts can cnn say with an any degree of fi finality finality finality fi- fi that l Minnesota or Princeton Princeton Princeton Prince Prince- ton would beat bent the Methodists or orvice orvice vice ice versa ersa I was talking with Bo McMillin head coach at Indiana about this after alter the game You'll Youl recall Bo Be as as quarterback of ot th the celebrated Praying Colonels of Centre Centre Cen- Cen tre college in years cars back He i is familiar with wilh football in the Big Ten of which Minnesota is a mem mem- bet ber What would the Methodists d do against Minnesota repeated Mr McMillin I 1 dont don't know But on any given day when everything e i is clicking right I 1 think tho the Methodists Methodists Methodists Metho Metho- or the tho Christians eIther cither fo for tor that matter would be tough fo for anybody and that goes for Mimic Mimic- sota too I think it I is a fact fac that tha there thero isn't much difference relatively relatively rela- rela among the leading lending teams any any- where Spectacular Playing ing They play playa a different kind of football football foot toot ball ban down there and listing myself as a spectator I think it is much superior to the more snore formal am and routine type of football sponsored in tho the east It may not ot be art buit but bu it is thrilling spectacular and bri hrH hrH- Jiant Even the men seem to have hav fun playing it Some of the critics were inclined to to pick flaws in the defense as exemplified exemplified ex ex- by both the Methodists Methodist and the Christians The Methodists marched 73 yards for tor the first firs touchdown and 80 for tor their second They scored their winning winnIn vinnin touchdown touchdown touchdown touch touch- down on a long pass down the sIdelines sidelines sidelines side sIde- lines which the fast gaited Bobb Bobby Wilson caught at the go goal line At intervals during the tho progress pro ross ress of these marches the Methodists Metho l cracked tho the center of the enemy line lino wide tido op open n. n And the same was true when the Christians Christians Chris Chris- got the ball and started to roll At such times naturally the defense looked hooked feeble What would happen If these t tennis teams had to face the sledgehammer blows of Princeton and lInn l Minnesota ota Well a lot of things might hap hap- pen But it Is well vell to remember this is a different typo of football and it is keyed to tg meet local condi condI- U ns |