Show I R CE A ALTHOUGH A a good bit on the belated side It seems about time to rearrange a few few national football rankings and also see what might be done about the plight of the the Far West In ln Rose Bowl matt matters rs I In the first place we can see no argument ent for tor putting Notre Dame over Michigan The two teams played three common opponents opponents opponents op op- Pittsburgh Northwestern a and n d t. t n t Southern Califor Califor- nia In the total y count Michigan was something like 74 points in front T Few t tho thought h o u ugh g h 1 t Michigan had a achan XV chan chance e to equal Notre Dames Dame's margin margin marl mar- mar l G. G Rice gin of 31 points paints over I Southern California Michigan added added added add add- ed 18 points to this score I The worst that Michigan should get is to be ranked on a par with Notre Dame I believe Notre Dame I has the stronger line I know Michigan Michigan Michigan Michi Michi- gan has the faster more elusive backs Michigan has the better pass passI I attack with several good passers and three or four fine pass ref re re- f Also Michigan has more and better deception I In the new rearranged slot here is how the teams should be placed No 1 slot Michigan Notre Dame name co champions No 2 slot Texas and on a a. par No 3 slot Penn State The State of Texas came through brilliantly aided largely by Doak Boat Walker and Bobby Layne Layne outclassed Harry Gilmer in the Texas Alabama test On the full ful seasons season's count Walker and Layne move up with Bob Chappuis anc and Johnny Lujack as four of the star stai backs of the year S M U has Walker back for two twe more years and this means two more years of S MU U. U success although al though Blair Cherry at Texas will wil have a lot to say about it it Same Leaders Next Year You also can add odd that Notre Dame and Michigan will be almost as strong next season as they were I this last year Both lose good men but they have plenty left and others I coming In hi I It would be no surprise to see sec Michigan Notre Dame and Texas Tc rated among the top four for foi forI I 1948 19 Minnesota also can crowd Into ink I this picture with a break or two The west coast is still in hi a bad badway badway badway I way when it comes to Rose Bowl competition In the last three years Alabama Illinois and Michigan have run up upI I points in three bowl games games 83 K points were scored against Southern California and 45 points against UCLA And I know Frank Thomas Thomasin in 1946 after alter scoring 34 points worked hard to keep the score down We could have made it II 70 or 80 he said Just why good football material should be so scarce on the west wesl coast while white extremely good everywhere everywhere everywhere every every- where else Is a mystery But that's the way vay it is In the last three Rose Bowl games ames Far Western opposition tion has been so futile and feeble that no semblance of a a. contest re re- I doubt that Southern California had a m man n who could have made either the Notre Dame or Michigan earn eam not a man The team was Olg enough but slow In movement movement- sluggish both mentally and ally v-ally as far tar as football was con con- The West blest st Coast Mystery In the bowl game their reflexes and reactions were creaking Michigan MIchigan MIchi Michl I gan made it look even worse by bj being just the opposite opposite fast fast quick and smart to an outstanding degree I It isn't going to help matters next I fall it l Michigan wins the Big Nine I title again This means that a second sec ond and or possibly a third third place place team will make the trip trip and and probably win again without any great trouble I But what a squawk will rise up along the Pacific's rim if Michigan wins and either Minnesota or some other team is sent out UCLA last season was sup sun supposed posed to have the best material on onI the coast Yet UCLA lost four I Ranges games ames without meeting Michigan or Notre Dame Stanford's material was only fair U.S.C. and UCLA lose a a. flock of veterans In 1948 19 It may be that Pop Waldorf Waldor can start something at California He lost only one game last season and right now Pop and his Bears seem to be the main west coast hope The west wesl coast is packed with star a athletes in every other field There are fine ballplayers all over the landscape Just why the football material should suddenly run dry when you recall the stars of other years is a mystery You could understand understand understand un un- this happening for a year or two But the west coast hasn't had a good football team in the last six or seven years It has had no team to be rated close with the best bestin bestin in the other sections It Is about time the picture was changing chancing but at the moment there Is no such evidence in sight from the material at hand The great years of Howard Jones Pop Warner Buck BuckShaw BuckShaw Shaw and Babe seem to have faded lato the mists mist I |