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Show ;, Winners Travel 61 Yards i In Ten Plays to Sew Up Game ITks Trojans swept 1 yards in 10 plays, the last four of which wore aerials from Doyle Nave to Alvin Krueger. Krueger caught the last ens In the end sons and Duke was licked. This winning play was a duplicate Ief the one the Trojans used in scoring scor-ing in the last few seconds sgainst Notre Dame. It broke the back of the Irish that day snd yesterday it I spoiled a magnificent stand by an outmanned, outweighed Duke team. Until it was thrown no ons In ths j vast stadium thought Southern Cali-( Cali-( fornia had a chance to win. And i when it settled in the arms of Krueger Krue-ger the great gathering of Trojan backers, who had hundreds of thou-1 thou-1 sands of dollars riding on fhetr heroes, roae in one of the maddest I football demonstrations of all time. They yelled. They Jumped. They Y ran down on the field. They went, ' for a minute or two, insane. Southern California won the Roae j bowl game, its fifth without a loss, I because of superior man power. This ' does not mean that Nave did not I pass with magnificent surety, or that Krueger did not receive in superb su-perb fashion. Both boys were great, but they were working agalnet a team that was dead on its feet.- I talked to an official of the game and he agreed with Coach Wallace Wade of the Dukea that had it not been for weariness ths Blus Devils would have knocked down the pass. "We were all right as long as they didn't show us mors than three teams," Wade said after the game. "But when they came up with fresh and talented fourth stringers, it was too much. Krueger simply outran our end, Bailey. And Nave had all day to pass, because our linemen were just too tired to rush him." Southern Callfornlans differed with this opinion. They said the victory was the rssult of ths "hot-teat" "hot-teat" throwing arm in the history of ths Ross bowl. Maybe they are right, because certainly no passer, even Sammy Baugh or Davey O'Brien, ever threw a better ball than Nave did In that fictional finish. fin-ish. Under terrific pressure, with everything to loss and everything to gain, the boy who had been on the bench all season fired four passes and connected with all of them. |