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Show UNLUCKY THIRTEEN MAYBE CoGsti IPicEter IFavors UCLA, Fresno State By ED -WEBKKAH LOS ANGELES. Dee. 37 (UP) Deks Houlgats, ths football prognosticate prognos-ticate who batted 1.000 In his 1M6 bowl predictions, climbed out on a Umb todsy to name ths 13 teams he thinks will win bowl games Jan. L For ths IMS football season, Houl-gate Houl-gate scored an average of .800 In hla election of the winner of 40 game each week. He picked the right winner win-ner In eight out of eight bowl gamea last Jan. L hitting ths scors right on the nose In some Instances. Of the gamea on tap this New Tear's day, "not one of them can be listed aa outstanding," Houlgate aald. "Nor will tha outoome of any alngle contact materially ohangs ths 1M8 gridiron picture.'' From the spectator's standpoint ths Georgia-North Carolina battle in the Sugar bowl at New Orleans la rated by HoMlgate aa the top game. Georgia's CllKrTee "The GreatT' Trippl will be challenged to a touchdown race by Charlea "Choo-Choo" Justice of North Carolina, and Houlgate believes be-lieves Georgia will win by 14 points. University of California at Los Angeles will defeat Illinois, Big Nine champion, by six points in the Rose bowl at Pasadena, Houlgats predicted. predict-ed. UCLA and Georgia-were the only two undefeated, untied teams In ths nation during the 1946 season. Other bowl picks by Houlgate are: Tenneaaee over Rice by 13 points in ths Orange bowl, Miami. This gams repreeents one-half of a New Year's day playoff between the Southeastern and Southwestern conferences. Ths other gams matching Isadora of the two conferences will Be played in ths Cotton bowl at Dallas, Tsxaa, with Houlgats. making Louisiana Btate a 7-point choice over Arkansas. Oil bowl at Houston, Texas Georgia Geor-gia Tech gets the nod over St. Mary's by six points, This Is something of a consolstion contest, sines two defeats de-feats by each team during the regular regu-lar aeason precluded bids to bigger bowls. Sun bowl at Dallas, Texas Cincinnati Cincin-nati over Virginia Poly by a lone point. 'Gator bowl at Jacksonville, Fla. Oklahoma over North Carolina State by aix polnta. Raisin bowl at Fresno, Cel. San Joee over Utah State by one point. Will Rogers bowl at Oklahoma City, Okla. Pepperdlna college over Nebraska Ne-braska Wesleyan by aeven polnta. Pepperdlne, of Los Angeles, Is the first grid team to make a bowl In its first year of Intercollegiate football. foot-ball. Alamo bowl at San Antonio, Texas Tex-as Hardln-Slmmona over Denver by 20 points. Cigar bowl at Tampa. Fla. Dataware Data-ware over Rollins by six polnta. Tangerine bowl at Orlando, Fla. Catawba over Maryavllls by asven points. Harbor bowl at Ban Diego, Cel. New Mexico over Montana State by aix polnta. East-west game at San Francisco West by seven points. |
