Show I I Rose Rose- Bowl Authorities Will Precipitate Another Fort Sumter If They Ignore South Says McLemore By HENRY l ILE United Press Sports Sports' Writer MONTGOMERY Ala Nov 14 H HUPA UP UP-A UP A few weeks of travel through the fried chicken and sweet potato pie belt has convinced convinced convinced con con- vinced me there is a possibility that no fewer than three southern southern south south- em ern states will secede from the unit union n before the first of the year I speak with a fair amount of seriousness when I say that North Carolina Tennessee and Texas might sever connections with the federal government and set up a disgruntled country of their own if the Ros Rose bowl powers should overlook Duke Texas Christian and Tennessee U U. when the bid J 1 to play in Pasadena on New Years Year's day is passed out Let the invitation go somewhere else and it will be Fort Sumter all over again States' States rights never were half so respected in North Carolina as is the current Duke team From the blackest bearded hill billy to the biggest tobacco planter the Blue are treasured and incapable ble of doing any wrong Let Cali Call California California fornia ignore them when Rose bowl time comes around and the entire entire- state will be too hopping mad to remain in the same union with it In Texas the Alamo no longer is the show thing of the state T T. C. C Us U.'s u. u honored Frog football team is And Davy Crockett and Sam Houston are forgotten heroes heroes heroes he he- roes having been replaced by Davoy Davey OBrien O'Brien and Aldrich In fact there isn't a Texan who wont won't fight at the suggestion that Crockett could fire his famed old Betsy rifle with as much accuracy as OBrien O'Brien throws passes In Tennessee well Tennessee well if you want to get a banjo wrapped around your neck or get slapped in the face with a side of bacon just dare suggest that anything that ever walked on a football field could stand up before the rush of the present volunteer team Continued from Preceding Page Rose lose Bowl Bow Leaders Cant Can't Ignore South Continued on Following Page that Major Bob Neyland is coaching coaching coach coach- iri ing at Knoxville I have seen many an enthusiastic football follower in my day but the Tennessee ladies and gentlemen who turned Nashville into an incorporated incorporated in- in madhouse Saturday after the tie had kicked Vanderbilt Vander- Vander but bilt 14 to 0 were the tops in football football foot- foot ball jail fanatics From city limit to city ity limit they whooped it up with witha a fervor that must have written novel ovel length messages on every seismograph this side of Calcutta They had a pretty good excuse too oo because the Tennessee team of ofle the le year 1938 is something to behold when it turns on the power as it did id in the fourth period against Vanderbilt I haven't seen een the un- un scored cored on untied unbeaten Dukes or r the wild scoring coring Texas Christians Christians Chris- Chris ans but if they are any better I than lan the they're hotter than han a feverish fox in a forest fire At the finish of the Vanderbilt game ame even Neyland broke down and nd admitted that they were good Usually as as an embalmer with toothache the Te Tennessee coach said aid it was the best team he had ever ver coached even better beUer than the thenes ones nes which had such uch players as Feathers McEver Hickman and Dodd odd It was perfect balance and what is more the squad has more moro boys who like to play football 60 minutes min min- utes tes of it than any squad I ever saw aw Neyland said Should the Rose bowl florists overlook Duke Tennessee and T. T C. C U. U and secession be the result the three teams could put up a swell fight With the Duke line in front and nd the Vols and the Horned Frogs working behind it even another Sherman herman might find it tough marching to the to-the the sea S di S 5 S jh- jh l |