Show R CE N NASHVILLE TENN This This Bluegrass Bluegrass Bluegrass Blue- Blue grass section of ot Tennessee is heavily endowed with coaches scouts and other football veterans who from a central position cover almost the entire map And two of ot the first firsts first questions they ask are are are- Who is going to beat Minnesota this fall Who Is going to beat Fordham Most of these experts have been working around with various football football foot foot- ball summer schools of instruction so they are in close touch with a major portion of the football map Football interest Is no longer sectionaL sectionaL sectionaL sec- sec It is widespread It covers the country From all the early gossip I could pick up one leading coach said n rv v Y Y c 3 t tr I JIM In CROWLEY 4 my my guess would be that Minnesota Minnesota Minne Minne- sota and Fordham the Fordham-the the Gopher and the Ram would Ram would be the two hardest to beat Both get rough early tests against Washington and SM U. U both exceptionally strong but hardly hardly hardly hard hard- ly strong enough to drive back the two combinations Bernie Bernic Bierman and Jim Crowley will be able to wheel into action They have the backs and the lines plus the needed reserves They have speed to give giveaway giveaway away away and even more power What about Notre Dame I asked Extremely good especially Inthe In Inthe Inthe the backfield my adviser said Red Sanders Harry Mehre and a flock of other coaches have been working around in these summer I schools with many mai ma r other able professors pro lessors from other points east pro pro-I and west nor north and south What They Tell You Y OIL OILI I Here are re a few more items they bring up You can watch Frank Thomas and Alabama in the South Not far from the front anyway You can bank on Mississippi with napes apes and ious Hovious to be dangerous you dangerous you can rate Vanderbilt well above last year and and you can enter Georgia with some of the best material in the South especially in hi the backfield The Southwestern scramble will willbe willbe willbe be one of the hottest in years ears with Texas exceptionally good S SM M MU U U. close and several others above last years gears strength This will hardly haNily include Texas A A. and M. M which has j lost almost its entire 1940 19 first- first stringers If I had to name a leader lead lead- II er now Id I'd make it Texas Outside of or Minnesota in the Midwest Midwest Mid Mid- west you can keep an eye on Notre Mid Mid-I Dame and Northwestern with improvement improvement improvement im im- im- im provement in Wisconsin Indiana I and Ohio State Michigan has lost too many stars from her great outfit of last fall Tennessee loses many stars plus Coach Bob Neyland Tulane and Duke will be good Both Nebraska and Missouri lose important cogs From Fronz ls the tIle East What did you pick up from the eastern scouts outside of Fordham's Rams I asked Navy should come next Swede Larson has a fine squad Cornell wont won't be any flop although Snavely has lost most niost of his 1940 19 starters Colgate will be better So will Co Co- Co- Co lumbia I didn't hear so much about Harv r and Princeton ceton but I know Harvard has been hard hit by air force and i army losses But they tell me Ya Yale e may be one of the surprises Spike Nelson has a well- well drilled squad and he will also call on the T-formation T with some fast fellows to carry it through Dont Don't rate Yale any pushover pushover pushover push push- over this time tune Army and Dartmouth are doubt doubt- ful Georgetown will be very good again but Boston college loses its Us coaching staff and such people as and Kerr and cant can't be as strong as BC B.C. was last falL Pittsburgh is s another guess I My ranking would be Fordham Navy Navy and then a pretty general tort sort of which Is good for general football interest In the Far West they rate Stanford Stanford Stanford Stan Stan- ford on top again with Washington a close second It was the unanimous opinion of ot the group that 1941 would pile up a anew anew anew new record attendance They point to the crowds the Yankees and Dodgers have drawn in baseball and football doesn't demand any such winning whining consistency You can figure in advance how many highly excited spectators Notre Notre No No- tre Dame will draw at every start- start especially against Army Navy Southern California see sec more sellouts this fall than you ever saw before one veteran coach said I mean allover all allover allover over the map |