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Show GlliEDois' Speed Tests Evum Poviev m IBowB . (Edlter's netoi This Is another la a series ef articles comparing the varieae bewl rivals by ea-the-spet reporters of United Frees.) By LEO H. PETERSEN PASADENA. CJ Dec. 37 (UP) Hers where ths idea of football gamea en New Year's day was born 4o ysara ago, a new era in the his tory of the Ross bowl will bs ushered In on Jan. 1. This granddaddy of all post-season classics has become a closed shop operation with the parties of the first and second parts tha only ones which count being the respective champions of the Western and Pacific Pa-cific Coast conferences. So on one end of the field it will be Illinois and on tha other UCLA in the gams which will inaugurate the five-year pact between the two athletic groups. That comes about because of the Wsstsra -Pacific Coast flvs-year "freese-out" agreement, Ths Rose bowl always has been the horns of the Pacific Coast conference title-holders, title-holders, but ths party of ths second part was open to selection from any section of the country. But now It must be the Big Nine champion, or some team designated by that midwest mid-west athletic giant. It may and should be quite a football game. UCLA won all of Its 10 gamea this season, most of them in a breese. Illinois won seven out of nine-losing nine-losing to Notre Dame, which Is a national habit on tha country's grid-Irons, grid-Irons, and to Indiana, which isn't according to ths script. Almost very-one very-one beat Indiana thl year, except Illinois. r But the Illlnl still were good enough to win the Big Nine title and they may be more than the Pacific Coast conference champs can handle. Only time will tell that story. Illinois Is light but fast. They have been opportunists, usually trailing In the statistics, but being on top In the final score. They yield ground when it doesn't mean much except In the statistical column but they throw out a defense that resembles a stone wall when they get In the shsdow of their own goal line. That defense haa been their stock in. trade. Coach Ray Eliot operates on the theory that If your opponent cannot scors on you. you can't be beaten. U C L A's eleven is of a different mold. Its chief weapon la offense. And It served them well aa they ran roughshod over St. Mary's, Oregon, Montana, Southern California, Nebraska, Ne-braska, Oregon State. Washington, Stanford and Santa Clara. For Illinois it was triumphs -over Pittsburgh, Purdue, Wisconsin, Michigan, Mich-igan, Iowa, Ohio Stats and Northwestern North-western and defeats from Notre Dam and Indiana. . Those who profess to know, feel that Illinois played tha rougher opponents. op-ponents. They were tested to the limit week after week. For UCLA It usually was a breese. The Californlans will outweigh Illinois. They have ahown power where the midwest tltleholders have ahown only speed. But Illinois haa demonstrated that 'goal line spirit-even spirit-even In the games they won their opponents spent most of the time In the ehadow of their goal posts and so the question Is whether that defense le going to be better than U C L A'a offense. The bettinlg Is that U C L A'a power on the ground and in the air is going to pay off. Tha bookmakers srgus that you can't always stop a team short of scoring ground. It could be but Illinois did it often enough. They could do It again. |
