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Show Pitt and Alabama. Have Monopoly on Rose-Bowl-Jaun ts ' By BILL CORIM International Ncwa Sports Writer NEW YORK, Nov. 9 (INS) Our nomination for Rose Bowl football game of January 1, 1938, 1 Fordham university. Rose Hill. the Bronx, New York City. Well, to begin at th beginning, what team can you nam that can tarn th Ram? Pitt? Pitt didn't Pitt hasn't Indeed, in three years. Nor scored a point against them. Any mor than they have scored a point against Pitt. In apite of a ti with Fordham and a defeat by little Duquesne, the Panthers went to th Rose bowl last year, and all but blew th west coast's representativ right into the Pacific. So why should a tie with Pitt militate against a Fordham Invitation Invi-tation this year? Surely Dr. Jock Sutherland and his powerful pupils don't want to go to California svery winter. Their health Is all right Ask Elmer Layden. In other words, let's rat Fordham, Ford-ham, ritt, Alabama and Duke on even term. The are the four leading candidate for th Rose bowl bid. a we also up tha situation. Baylor, Colorada, Texas A. 4b M. and one or tw other with excellent record may hava Just a good teams, but location, easier , schedule, and one thing and another make them lea like-- like-- ly candidate. Th Big Ten haa a written law against any member going to th bowl. Th Big Six strings along with th Big Ten, and th so-called Ivy league her In th east appears to have an unwritten law against it. It would be a good thing, we think, If Yale, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton and th rest of th Ivy leaguers cither collectively or individually in-dividually mad a definite announcement an-nouncement of their attitude toward this gam. All at them take the football public' money (yea, eagerly), and they ewe the public that much of a run for It Because the fan In every section of the country are Interested In thi game, and have com to consider It th gridiron' golden fleece. . No school ever lost anything by accepting an Invitation to th Rom bowL That goes for prestige as well as pocketbook. In cash, th invitation is worth something like toS.OOO. I resllse that sort of money would be just aa annoyanc to most collage athlstlo associations, because I hav heard th anguished screams of th members when soma poor assistant coach asked for 11200 a year instead of 11000. This thing of. will Vale g to th Rase bowl If Invited, or win Dartmouth go, la neither polite nor sporting. Wa mention the tw betaus they would b husky Rose bowl possibilities. If they could be eomidered. We talc It they cant It would be nicer If they, and the reat of their Ivy league playmates, aald a la lm pie little English words t n syllable. . Fordham doesn't go In for any of that phoney funny business. Fordham wants to go to th Rose bowL Has wanted to go for 10 years, and has never triad to bid th fact "From Ros Hill to th Ross bowl" has been th Ram slogan for a long time. It has been widely publicised. Ha created nam of comment It chief rival for th bid are, a w asld, Pitt Alabama and Duk. Pitt and Duk are scheduled to meet three Saturdays hence, so that on will sllmlnat th othsr; th best guess being that th Panthar will do th eliminating. Now, of th but It Rea bowl games, Pittsburgh and Alabama together hav appeared la eight. Kaeh f them ha had four ahota at th big gam In a doaea years. They dont awa tha bewt da theyf If thst's what the coast people want they should advertl th gam as between th Paclflo Coast conference champion and lthr Pitt or Alabama. Than th reat of th country can forget It In the last 12 games, or sine 1S26. only on truly eastern team Columbia ha been invited to th Ros bowl. Fiv hav been from th deep south, four from th city of Pittsburgh, and an from th southwest Isn't it about tlm for change of venue, if this is to eon tin u to be considered a truly national event? 1 |