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Show Coram Backs Fordhafti for CoastEYent By BILL CORl'M International Neva Nports Writer NEW YORK, Nov. 27 To the undefeated un-defeated and untied football team of the University of Alabama, congratulations con-gratulations and cheeri. Not Bronx cheers, either. For a major team to . come unbeaten and untied through Its schedule with football as it is today is a tremendous accomplishment ac-complishment So to Joe Kilgrow and his rampaging ram-paging red regiment and Coach Frank Thomas, the rock of Tuscaloosa, Tus-caloosa, a deep and courtly south-erriJowsnd south-erriJowsnd a", lionor, But for the Rose bowl football game in the famous Arroyo Seco at Pasadena, Cal., on January 1, 1938. California vs. Fordham university uni-versity of Rose hill, the Bronx. N. Y. C. That's still our ticket and while we may lose the solid south, we'll sweep the Bronx and the borough of Manhattan. If Fordham can beat New York university in the Yankee stadium tomorrow and Fordham will then it rates the Rose bowl bid if ever a team rated it No Questions Asked Just because New York City's on an island doesn't mean we're insular. in-sular. If the present situation was reversed and Fordham had played in the big saucer four times in 11 years as Alabama and Pitt have done we'd say that either 'Bama or the Panthers should get the invitation invita-tion this year, and no questions asked. Alabama, on the strength of the best record of any major team in the country. Or Pitt, because it probably is a trifle stronger than the Crimson Tide, has undoubtedly undoubt-edly played a tougher schedule. But that isn't the setup. While the southern representatives and the delegation from the steel city virtually vir-tually have taken turns at cutting the cake for a decade, Fordham has patiently bided its time. Bided its time while It boasted just as strong teams as either Pitt or Ala. Bided itS Hmi flflAF B.)iM I. ...... ... , R tnui new season with the watchword "From Rosa hill to the Rose bowl," which has been th. Rob. bowl's best advertising ad-vertising slogan in the east. The last time the two teams played the Rams beat Ala. by the pitchers' duel score of 2 to 0 All the world knows that the Pitt series has been a scoreless affair for three years. And last year's Pitt team was exactly the same Panther outfit out-fit that all but ran Jimmy Phelan and his Washingtonians out of the bowl. Let's be perfectly frank with our friends from California. If Fordham Ford-ham isn't invited to the bowl this year (saving always the possibility of an N. Y. U. triumph tomorrow), we'll know it is never. going to be invited. That It's blackballed. Closed Corporation The reason for that will be the business of California, in particular and the Pacific Coast conference and the Rose bowl people in general. It can only mean, however, that the Rose bowl is not a national sports fixture. Rather, that it is a closed corporation affair that doesn't merit the attention it gets. We won't be mad about that back here in the east. Just terribly hurt Also we'll know pretty well what the Rose bowl stands for. There's been talk about scholastic standards. stand-ards. Let's be frank about that also. To paraphrase a famous mayor of New York City, we'll match the private scholastic tives of our Frd-hams Frd-hams with those of the average college col-lege boy any day. Fordham is a fin. old Jesuit institution that's been going since 1841. By and large, we'd like to wager that, to coin a phrase, we'll call a pretty penny, that the young men of Fordham study as hard as they do at California or anywhere else. They may not have learned quit, as much about the catacombs as some. But think how much more they know about the subways. |