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Show His Contract Ends ThisTear ..u:;-e-l u Jk;; J?- Edward "Slip" Madigan... Concluding seventeenth season sea-son with Gaels. Gaels Hope to Stop Rani Bid for Rose Bowl Berth By LESLIE AVERT United Press Sports Writer NEW YORK, Nov. 17 Little St. Mary's big-time football team arrives from the Pacific coast tomorrow determined to squash Ford-ham's Ford-ham's Rose bowl hopes in Saturday's outstanding intersectional game. Despite two defeats and two ties in eight games played this season, the Moragas valley team will have no fears when It lines up against Jim Crowley's Rams. In the six previous pre-vious tilts in their series the underdog under-dog has tripped the . favorite with but a singls exception. ex-ception. In 1932 SL Mary's, then the favorite, won. Thus St. Mary's paid little heed to the S-l odds quoted quot-ed by bookmakers mi Fordham. The a jr'tjrjl k. r:-r or i .. uos In the air. And, what's more, he's the only simon pure Irishman in the lot born In County Kerry." Foudy has a new nams for his team "the Irish Infantry. In Seventeenth Year Saturday's gams will be Important Impor-tant to Coach "Slip" Madigan. who la rounding out his seventeenth year of service at St Mary's since graduating grad-uating from Notre Dame In ISM. His contract expires this season and victory over Fordham would give him a good selling argument when the subject of contract is broached by his new "boss," ths Catholic archdiocese of San Francisco. The church put up $700,000 last summer to get the school back from first mortgage bondholders, who bought it at a trustees' sals. Madigan is bringing 30 players. They will make headquarters at the Westchester-Biltmore club at Rye. I A practice session was scheduled for tomorrow a few hours after the squad arrives. Of the S5.000 to 40.000 spectators expected at the Polo Grounds Saturday, Sat-urday, at least 3M of them will be cheering for the Gaels, because that many are coming from San Fran-ciaco. Fran-ciaco. They are traveling in a special spe-cial train in what probably is a record rec-ord cross country football migration. Californians wsre Crowley a 2-1 bet to win when Fordham took its second gams of ths series last year. 7-C St. Mary's has won three times and ons gams snded In a 7-7 tie. Great Kicker "St. Mary's baa the greatest college col-lege placekicker in America today in Lou Ferry." Tom Foudy. the Gaels' publicist, said. "His 54-ysrd field goal against Fordham was ths longest kicked last year and his 41-yard 41-yard boot to win, 2-0, from San Francisco 10 days ago ranks with ths bast reported this year. St. Mary's mtsnds putting the foot' back In football. "Our No. 2 foot player la Gerald Patrick Dowd, who plays center and is She outstanding punter on the Pacific coast In 61 kicks this year he has ths astounding average of 42 yards, and in seven of eight games so far he has gotten off at least ons punt that traveled 65 yards |