Show ER R a 0 aft ASHVILLE TENN this bl blue egrass ia grass section of tennessee is heavily endowed with coaches scouts and other football veterans who from a central position cover almost the entire map and two of the first questions they ask 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 toot 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 it is widespread it covers the country from all the early gossip I 1 could pick up one leading coach said t t I 1 lu 00 14 JIM CROWLEY my guess would be that minnesota and fordham the Gop herand the e ram would be the two hardest to beat both get rough early tests ag against ainest washington and S U both exceptionally strong but hardly strong enough to drive back the two combinations bernie 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 away and even more power what about notre dame I 1 asked extremely good especially in the backfield back neld my adviser said red sanders harry mehre and a flock of other coaches have been working around in these summer schools with many other able professors from other points east and west north and south what they tell you here are 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 rapes hapes and hovious to be dangerous you can rate vanderbilt well above last year and you can enter georgia with some of the best material in the south especially in the backfield the southwestern scramble will be one of the hottest in years with texas exceptionally good close and several others above last years strength this will hardly include texas A and M which has lost almost its entire 1940 first stringers if I 1 had to name a leader now id make it texas outside of Alinne minnesota sota in the alad midwest you can keep an eye on notre dame and northwestern with improvement pro in wisconsin indiana 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 F from rom the east what did you pick up from the eastern scouts outside of Ford hams rams I 1 asked navy should come next swede larson has a fine squad cornell wont be any flop although snavely has lost most of his 1940 starters colgate will be better so will columbia I 1 hear so much about harvard and princeton but I 1 know harvard has been hard hit by air a ir force and army losses but they tell me yale may be one of the surprises spike nelson has a well drilled squad and he will also call on the T formation with some fast hard hitting fellows to carry it through dont rate yale any pushover this time army and dartmouth are doubtful 1111 georgetown will be very veryl good again but boston college loses its coaching staff and such people as Glad hladchuck chuck and kerr and cant be as strong as B BC C was last tall fall pittsburgh is another guess my ranking would be fordham navy and then a pretty general sort of which is good for general football interest in the far west they rate stanford on top again with washington a close second it was the unanimous opinion of the group that 1941 would pile p ile up a new record attendance th they ey point to the crowds the yankees and dodgers have drawn in has baseball and football demand an any y such winning consistency you can figure in advance how many highly excited spectators notre dame will draw at every start especially against army navy southern california see more sellouts sell outs this fall than you ever saw before one veteran coach said 1 I mean all over the map |