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Show Alabama Must Depend on Superior Reserves to Win prepared to score at leaM three 1 times. No one believes the Tide, , t or any other eleven in the coun- J"-try for that matter, tan hope to I ' check the ruthless drive of the j i Bears when they are fresh and ; ready. j I saw California in two games. ' . 4 Against Oregon It crashed through for two touchdowns In eight minutes In the second pe- rtodi Against Stanford it felt out the opposition for a few minutes and then, with a tremendous show of power, marched down the field to clinch the game. By HKNBY MXEMORE I nitJ Press HporU Writer . i-na ANGELE9. Dec. 20 UP) For at least 30 minutes in ths Rose bowl on New Year's day Alabama's Crimson Tide football team will be pitted against "the strongest eleven in the country f " and one of the strongest ever produced pro-duced on the Pacific coast. During that first 30 minutes of the Pasadena extravaganza tfitT California Bears are almost a certainty cer-tainty to riddle the Alabama line with a series of savage thrusts and twice march across the payoff , stripe for touchdowns. To win, i the southerners must come pre pared to score at least three " touch downs. One will cost them defeat and two won't get them any better than a tie. That' not my opinion. It ts the opinion of two men who know as much football as anyone you care to name Howard Jones, head coach at Southern California, and Aubrey Devine, one time all American from Iowa and now a scout for Jones. Between them the Messrs. Jones and Devine have seen the Bears in action five times this season. And therefore speak knowingly of the outfit that Alabama Ala-bama must thwart to keep intact the brightest of all Rose bowl records. "I don't know If I have ever seen a better starting lineup than California has this year," Jones told me as we walked along a fairway of the Lakeside Golf club a few days ago. "The eleven men who get the first call comprise a team that has nu bu.hhIih Hi this country, and I don't except Pittsburgh. It has no real weakness weak-ness and much greatness. The back field has speed, power, fine kicking, sure passing and all the boys block. Up front it is much the same thing. Schwartx Is an i especially fine offensive end and ' his partner on the other wing. " Dolman; is n tremendously -effec- tive defensive player. The tackles, while not spectacular, are ade-quale. ade-quale. Th guards ar xtandoula, i Both Evans and Stockton have all the requirements of great guards and. of course, Herwig is a notable nota-ble center." This eleven, Jones said, was a first half killer. In only one game this year did the Bears fail to pound out two touchdowns before half time. He believes it is capable capa-ble of going through the Tide in the same manner. "The California weakness." the U. S. C. coach explained, "is a lack nf reserves. Any replacement replace-ment weakens the squad considerably. consid-erably. That's why the Bears operate op-erate on the 'go to town in the first hair theory. They know that the first team must do the scoring and that it must do this scoring before fatigue sets in." - " Alabama's haweea) el vwry hinge on the Tide's summoning enough strength to check the Call-fornians' Call-fornians' first half scoring burst and then slowly wearing them down with reserve strength late in the game. Alabama must come |