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Show Trojans Capture Sixth Bowl Title , , tvs " " " "' , --, 1 ' -z Previously Undefeated Vols Fail to Hold ' Jones' Elevens By BUB8ELL NIWLAVD PASADENA, Cel, Jan. 3 IrPI Football's Gibraltar was mass of crumbled ruins today the team that couldn't be beaten met up yesterday with the team that wouldn't be beaten. Southern California was the toast of the Rose bowl; Tennessee a new member of the losing teem brigade and shorn of distinction that began accumulating back la the season of 1937. ' The 14 to 0 soar deciding the twenty-fifth Rose bowl classic, witnessed wit-nessed by Jammed-ln crowd of 92,000, was the most conclusive sines Pittsburgh won from Washington Wash-ington here In, 1937, 21 to 0. Vela Lee BepfU.n Tennessee staked one of the na tlon's greatest gridiron reputations In the game. Defeat called halt to a consecutive victory record of a nooked-winner tnraugn two full seasons and part of a third. Until the Southern California Trojan Tro-jan power machine rolled to touchdown touch-down In the second period, Tennessee's Ten-nessee's goal Una had not been crosssd In 15 encounters 10 last year and five In 1938. The best backfleld man In the Tennessee string played parts of the game handicapped by a knee Injury. Whether or not a George (Bad News! Cafego In top physical physi-cal condition would have staved off the Trojan yard-gaining landslide land-slide was a matter of debate among This wirrphote is aa eloquent demonstration of why Southern California's Trojans overpowered Tennessee, 14-9, in (he Bos bowL Grenny Lansdell (78) is about to cross tha scrimmage line oa aa 11-yard gala to Tennessee's 44-yard Una. Ed Ciphers (47), Vol and, it tha only Tennessee player left oa the loose as the U. S. C blockers eat down their opponents. Tackle Howard Stoecker (l) b the blocker leading Laasdell. The Trojans scored at the end ef each half. grandstand master minds. A prepared statement Issued by Major Bob Neyland, Tennessee coach, seemed to express the sentiments sen-timents of most of the experts. It said: "We were badly beaten by a superior team. I want to congratulate Howard Jones and his staff for the fin team they have turned out." Prom start to finish Southern California left little doubt as to which side was superior. It outdowned and outgalned Tennessee on the ground, and when checked there took to the air.' i Law Cracks Tennessee came to the west coast for ths first time heralded as a defensive de-fensive giant. When tha Trojan off-tackle plays began clicking, the Volunteer Una burst before the foiling flood. Ambrose Schlndler, htgh-etepplng quarterback, who has run ths gamut of playing from first string to third and back again, was the firebrand In tha latest Southern California Rose bowl victory, of which there have been six In aa many appearances. XT' s . V ) y V"- It was Schlndler who sparked the two scoring drives, lata In the second quarter and again toward the tall end of the fourth. The first touchdown march opened on tha Tennessee 47-yard line. Schlndler had returned a punt 10 yards to set tha stage. He carried tha ball In five of tha six ground plays and tossed an 11-yard pass to a teammate In one of the other two gainers. He finally went over from the one-foot Una. Tha last-period touchdown gave the assembled thousands a true picture of Trojan power. The team naaaed and emaahed B5 varda Tennessee had it offensive momenta, too, marching about 81 yard en one drive la the fourth quarter before fumbling inside S. C's 20-yard line. Here Leonard Coffmaa (11), the Volunteer fullback, ran te a first down. Coffmaa evaded Howard Stoecker () and all but got entirely loose before Grenny Lansdell nabbed him. after recovering a Tennessee fumble. fum-ble. Fred Newman, .Volunteers' fullback, had dropped the ball and U. S. C's sub halfback, Jos Engl, had snsked It Into his own arms on his 19. Schmdler was In ths role of field marshal. He directed an attack that brought ready praiss from his coach. Headman Jones is not renowned re-nowned for lavtshneas In this respect. re-spect. Smart Calling 1m Twice In the thrust, line battering batter-ing or skirting failed. Schlndler turned to the air. The second such sortie brought the second score. The ball was on the one-yard line. Tennessee players tightened for another plunge. Schlndler passed over the goal line to his left to Al Krueger, sub left end. The Volunteers Vol-unteers were caught flat footed. When Tennessee's Newman fumbled fum-bled It ended the only scoring bid of the team from the old south the only time It had. been able to advance the oval past mldfleld.' Had Newman held onto the leather, tha game might have ended end-ed In a tie. Tennessee, taking the ball on Its one-yard line after a punt out of bounds, had driven exactly 80 yards to Southern California's Cali-fornia's 19. The charge opened late In the third and ended early in the fourth quarter. A 36-yard pass from Right Half Bob Foxx to End Jim Coleman was the highlight high-light of tha Vols' Ions yardage parade. |